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Acrylic Resin Removal for Sympathetic Restoration of Old Artwork

In the past, restoration of paintings and other old artwork often involved application of coatings such as acrylic resins to consolidate and protect them.

By Reginald Davey 26 Oct 2009

Graphene Additive Improving the Productivity of Wells

A wall of graphene a single nanometer wide could be the difference between an oil well that merely pays for itself and one that returns great profit. Rice University and Houston-based M-I SWACO, the world's largest p...

26 Oct 2009

World's Fastest Supercomputer Completes Initial "Shakedown" Phase

The world's fastest supercomputer, Roadrunner, at Los Alamos National Laboratory has completed its initial "shakedown" phase doing accelerated petascale computer modeling and simulations of a variety of unc...

26 Oct 2009

Applied Materials Announces Opening of Advanced Solar Research and Demonstration Facility in China

Applied Materials' Solar Technology Center, the largest non-government solar energy research facility in the world, is comprised of laboratory and office buildings covering more than 400,000 square feet and contains an entire Applied SunFab™ thin film manufacturing line and a complete crystalline silicon pilot process.

From Applied Materials Inc 26 Oct 2009

Optomechanical Crystals Could be Used in Information Processing and as Supersensitive Biosensors

Researchers at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) have created a nanoscale crystal device that, for the first time, allows scientists to confine both light and sound vibrations in the same tiny space.

26 Oct 2009

Method Paving the Way for New Measuring Technology

Researchers at Chalmers University of Technology in Sweden have developed a new measurement technology that makes use of optical resonances in nanoparticles. The method, which opens new possibilities in the field of catalytics, will be published in the journal Science for November and is already available in the Web edition Science Express.

26 Oct 2009

Converting Methane Gas to Liquid Fuel

Researchers at the University of Washington and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill have taken an important step in converting methane gas to a liquid, potentially making it more useful as a fuel and as a sou...

26 Oct 2009

Arkema to Take Part in 2nd International Carbon Composites Conference

Arkema will take part in the 2nd International Carbon Composites Conference from 27 to 29 October 2009 at the palais des Congrès in Arcachon, France. Arkema will have its own stand displaying its carbon nanotube ...

26 Oct 2009

Dramatic Ceramics Giving New View of Art History

The current 'scooters and espresso machine' view of 20th Century Italian design is being challenged in The Hockemeyer Collection: 20th Century Italian Ceramic Art, a book by a Kingston University Research Associate Fellow, Dr Lisa Hockemeyer.

26 Oct 2009

Brush Engineered Materials Acquires Barr Associates

Brush Engineered Materials Inc. (NYSE:BW) announced today that the Company, through its wholly-owned subsidiary, Williams Advanced Materials Inc. (WAM), has acquired privately held Barr Associates, Inc. The transacti...

26 Oct 2009

Cabot Expands Carbon Black Capacity in China

Cabot Corporation (NYSE: CBT) announced today the commissioning of 150,000 metric tons of manufacturing capacity at its carbon black facility in Tianjin, China, bringing the plant's annual production capacity to near...

26 Oct 2009

DuPont Shines at World's Largest Solar Energy Exhibition

DuPont Photovoltaic Solutions (DPVS) recently highlighted solar energy initiatives at the 24th Annual European Photovoltaic Solar Energy Conference + Exhibition in Hamburg, Germany. More than 40,000 people attended the e...

26 Oct 2009

DuPont Hytrel Stretches the Limits with 1 Million Boots

In 25 years, more than 1 billion DuPont™ Hytrel® thermoplastic elastomer constant-velocity joint (CVJ) boots have kept vehicles moving without material failure. Hytrel® boots can survive 150,000 miles of continuous flexing, pelting and thermal cycling while rubber boots last for about 50,000 miles.

26 Oct 2009

Linde Awarded Long-Term Contract to Supply Gases for Bosch Solar's New Manufacturing Site

Linde Nippon Sanso (LNS), a company of The Linde Group, has been awarded a long-term contract to supply gases for Bosch Solar's new manufacturing site in Erfurt, Germany. Under the turnkey contract, Linde will provid...

26 Oct 2009

Alcoa Engineer Presents Sustainable Water Technologies at China America National Frontiers of Engineering Symposium

Natural water technology systems have enabled Alcoa (NYSE:AA) to decrease water usage and to return more clean water to the communities in which the company operates, said Rajat Ghosh, Ph.D., a senior project leader in A...

26 Oct 2009