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Environmentally Friendly Silicon-Air Battery Delivers Thousands of Hours of Non-Stop Power

Scientists at the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology have developed a new, environmentally friendly silicon-air battery capable of supplying non-stop power for thousands of hours without needing to be replaced. The ...

29 Oct 2009

New Technology Reduces Cost of Solar Cell Manufacture on SunFab Line

Applied Materials, Inc. announced today that it has significantly lowered the cost for customers to manufacture solar photovoltaic (PV) panels on its SunFab Thin Film Line using its next-generation module technology. Exe...

From Applied Materials Inc 29 Oct 2009

Stainless Steel Prices Unsettled

The steady rise in austenitic stainless steel transaction prices in Europe over the past five months has been arrested - mainly due to a reduction in alloy surcharges in October. Basis values in most EU countries are unc...

29 Oct 2009

Fortis Plastics Acquire Nypro Molding Facility

FPG Mexico S. dR.L. de C.V., a subsidiary of Fortis Plastics, has acquired the operating assets of Nypro Chihuahua, a plastics molding and assembly facility in Chihuahua, Mexico. Fortis Plastics, LLC is a leading pla...

29 Oct 2009

Level Gauge Helps Measure Water, Oil and Gas in Oil Separators

Scientists at SINTEF and StatoilHydro have developed a level-gauge staff that uses pressure differences to measure the levels of water, oil and gas in oil separators.

29 Oct 2009

mPhase Technologies Unveil mPower Emergency Illuminator Using Lithium Reserve Battery

mPhase Technologies, Inc. (OTC BB: XDSL.OB) today announced that its consumer products division, mPower Technologies, will be unveiling the mPower Emergency Illuminator at the International Consumer Electronics Show (CES...

29 Oct 2009

SABIC Innovative Plastics Launch New Copolymer Technology

SABIC Innovative Plastics today launched a new copolymer technology: Lexan* HFD specialty copolymer resins, a material innovation that gives customers high melt flow without traditional decreases in toughness; and improv...

From SABIC Innovative Plastics 29 Oct 2009

Researchers Fast Forwards Seed Germination with Carbon Nanotubes

A collaborative team of UALR plant biologists and nanotechnologists have demonstrated how seeds exposed to carbon nanotubes in the agar medium sprouted up to two times faster than control seed, a growth enhancement that has enormous potential on agriculture as well as plant-based biofuel production.

28 Oct 2009

Behavior of Silver Nanotextiles During Washing

Scientists in Switzerland are reporting results of one of the first studies on the release of silver nanoparticles from laundering those anti-odor, anti-bacterial socks now on the market.

28 Oct 2009

Microcapsules Delivering Chemicals on Demand

Scientists in California are reporting development of a new generation of the microcapsules used in carbon-free copy paper, in which capsules burst and release ink with pressure from a pen. The new microcapsules burst when exposed to light, releasing their contents in ways that could have wide-ranging commercial uses from home and personal care to medicine.

28 Oct 2009

Improving the Storage Capaccity of Lithium-Ion Batteries

High-performance energy storage technologies for the automotive industry or mobile phone batteries and notebooks providing long battery times - these visions of the future are being brought one step nearer to the present by scientists from Graz University of Technology.

28 Oct 2009

New Epoxy for Potting and Encapsulating Applications

Master Bond's newly developed EP29LP-1 epoxy is an attractive potting compound for use in large potting and encapsulating applications. Presenting a gamut of significant potting properties, good compound flow, easy set up and convenient handling, it exhibits a remarkably low exotherm, maximum pot life and desired electrical insulative qualities .

From Master Bond Inc. 27 Oct 2009