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Smart Clothes Promote Healthy Living

Comfortable smart clothes that monitor the wearer's heart, breathing and body temperature promise to revolutionise healthcare by reducing hospital visits and allowing patients to lead more active lives. Unlik...

20 Jul 2009

Cautious Optimism Amongst Northern European Carbon Steel Producers

There is a mood of cautious optimism in the northern European carbon steel community as business winds down for the summer holiday period. Most players believe that activity levels in September will give a good indicatio...

20 Jul 2009

Alternative Energy and Fuel Efficient Vehicle Developer is One of Canada's Fast Growing Companies

DAYMAK INC., a developer and distributor of alternative energy and fuel efficient vehicles, is pleased to announce that it has placed 84th overall in the 21st annual Profit 100 ranking of Canada's fastest-growing com...

20 Jul 2009

New Line of Carpet Rods for Stairways

Outwater Plastics Industries, Inc. / Architectural Products by Outwater, LLC/ULC pays homage to tradition with the introduction of its new line of US Manufactured Carpet Rods for Stairways.

20 Jul 2009

Canada's National Institute for Nanotechnology to House Electron Microscope R+D Centre

Canada's National Institute for Nanotechnology will soon be home to a new electron microscopy research and product development centre. The Hitachi Electron Microscopy Products Development Centre (HEMiC) at the Nation...

20 Jul 2009

Borealis Support New Plastic Engineering Degree

In October, 2009, a new Plastic Engineering degree programme will begin at Johannes Kepler University Linz (Austria). The programme and curriculum is jointly supported by OMV and Borealis who contributed a total of EUR 3...

20 Jul 2009

Holographic Video of Microscopic Systems Now Possible

Physicists at New York University have developed a technique to record three-dimensional movies of microscopic systems, such as biological molecules, through holographic video. The work, which is reported in Optics Expre...

20 Jul 2009

Nanocrystal Solar Cells and DLC Coating System Win R+D100 Awards for LBL Researchers

Four of R+D Magazine's prestigious R+D 100 Awards for 2009, which recognize the 100 most significant proven technological advances of the year, have gone to researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and their colleagues.

20 Jul 2009

Four R+D 100 Awards for Argonne National Labs

Researchers from the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory received four R+D 100 awards as judged by R+D Magazine. "The Department of Energy's national laboratories are incubators ...

20 Jul 2009

25 Million Euro Grant to Develop Solar Technology Inspired by Plants

On Friday 10 July the research programme Towards Biosolar Cells was granted a budget of 25 million euros by the Dutch Government. The Ministry of Agriculture, Nature and Food Quality recommended the programme because it will contribute to green energy, improve food supplies and a create a more sustainable biomass. The research focuses on increasing the efficiency of sunlight conversion into energy and building materials in plants and algae through photosynthesis.

20 Jul 2009

Materials Developments at Sandia Earn R+D100 Awards

Sandia National Laboratories researchers - competing in an international pool that includes universities, start-ups, large corporations, and government labs - received five R+D 100 Awards this year. R+D Magazine pres...

20 Jul 2009

Making Supersonic Jets Fly Faster with Nanocatalysts

Supersonic aircraft may get a boost in speed from the tiniest of manmade particles. An interdisciplinary team of scientists led by Princeton engineers has been awarded a $3 million grant to study how fuel additives made of tiny particles known as nanocatalysts can help supersonic jets fly faster and make diesel engines cleaner and more efficient.

20 Jul 2009

New Optical Materials Can Bend Light and other Electromagnetic Radiation

Even Albert Einstein might have been impressed. His theory of general relativity, which describes how the gravity of a massive object, such as a star, can curve space and time, has been successfully used to predict such astronomical observations as the bending of starlight by the sun, small shifts in the orbit of the planet Mercury and the phenomenon known as gravitational lensing. Now, however, it may soon be possible to study the effects of general relativity in bench-top laboratory experiments.

20 Jul 2009

How Light from Quantum Dots is Modified When in Proximity to Metal Films

Scientists at Argonne National Laboratory's CNM Nanophotonics Group have measured how light emission from individual colloidal semiconductor nanocrystals, or quantum dots, is modified when in proximity to smooth metal films.

20 Jul 2009

Low Cost SEM Wins R+D100 Award

Novelx, Inc. was just selected for a prestigious R&D 100 Award for one of the 100 most technologically significant new products in 2009. R&D Magazine recognized the Novelx mySEM® for miniaturizing and driving the cost out of the core technology inside a scanning electron microscope (SEM).

20 Jul 2009