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Carbon Free Buckyballs Synthesized

There are seven different possible structural forms that have 80 carbon atoms in a symmetrical, spherical arrangement. Among the forms that are so instable they have not previously been produced is the icosahedral version (icosahedron= twenty-sided figure).

Instead, a team led by Manfred Scheer at the University of Regensburg has now synthesized the first example of an inorganic, carbon-free C80 analogue.

30 Apr 2009

European Photonics Community Bands Together for the Greater Good

An umbrella group set up to give direction to Europe's emerging photonics community has proposed a programme of strategic research and is calling for action to address a looming skills shortage. The photonics ind...

30 Apr 2009

Alcoa to Sell Wire Harness and Electrical Distribution Business

Alcoa (NYSE:AA) announced today that it has agreed to sell its wire harness and electrical distribution business to Platinum Equity, a California-based private equity group. The terms of the sale were not disclosed.

30 Apr 2009

Northwest National Laboratory to get Multimillion Dollar Energy Research Center

The Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory will be home to one of 46 new multi-million-dollar Energy Frontier Research Centers announced earlier this week by the White House in conjunction with a speech delivered by President Barack Obama at the annual meeting of the National Academy of Sciences.

30 Apr 2009

SpectraFluids to Help US Army Develop Explosives Detectors

SpectraFluidics Inc., a company that specializes in developing trace level chemical detection technology, recently expanded its relationship with the U.S. Army to develop the next generation of handheld explosive detecto...

30 Apr 2009

First Ever Carbon Nanotube Device that Can Detect the Entire Visible Spectrum of Light

Researchers at Sandia National Laboratories have created the first carbon nanotube device that can detect the entire visible spectrum of light, a feat that could soon allow scientists to probe single molecule transformations, study how those molecules respond to light, observe how the molecules change shapes, and understand other fundamental interactions between molecules and nanotubes.

30 Apr 2009

Proceedings from TMS 2009 Annual Meeting Available for Purchase

The Minerals, Metals & Materials Society (TMS) is offering a total of 11 printed proceedings that were published from the Society's 2009 Annual Meeting in San Francisco. The concurrent proceedings include thr...

30 Apr 2009

No Joy for Developing Steel Markets

The Turkish long product producers have increased their local offers this month. Buyers believe this move is not warranted. It has not been facilitated by solid orders. The flat product segment is still experiencing chal...

30 Apr 2009

New Ferrite Material Ideally Suited to Use in Power Converters

EPCOS has developed a new power ferrite material with an exceptionally low power loss. In contrast to existing materials, N95 offers a constant loss minimum of 310 kW/m3 over a broad temperature range of between 60 and 100°C.

30 Apr 2009

New White Paper on Liquid and Powder Fluoropolymer Coatings for Architectural Coatings

PPG Industries (NYSE: PPG) has published Architectural Applications for Liquid and Powder Fluoropolymer Coatings: A Comparative Review, a white paper that examines a new generation of powder coatings for architectural me...

From PPG Industries Inc. 30 Apr 2009

Silicone Optical Adhesive Blended Especially for Bonding

Master Bond's new MS151 optical adhesive has been specially formulated for optimal optical bonding. It is a two-part silicone adhesive with silicone's inherent temperature resistance and flexibility, a refractive index of 1.43 and superb optical clarity.

From Master Bond Inc. 30 Apr 2009

Porsche Select Mobil 1 as Official Oil for 2010 Panamera's

ExxonMobil today announced that Mobil 1, the world’s leading fully synthetic motor oil, has been selected as the factory and service-fill endorsed motor oil for all models of the new 2010 Porsche Panamera.

30 Apr 2009

SUSS MicroTec to Wins Head to Head Wafer Characterization Reliability Test

SUSS MicroTec Test Systems has announced that it has once again won a head-to-head evaluation with its unique PA300PS with ProbeShield Technology, the 300 mm wafer-level probe system for device characterization and relia...

From Focuslight Technologies Inc. 29 Apr 2009

Behavior of Iron-Arsenic Superconductors Differ from Other Known Superconductors

Physicists at the U.S. Department of Energy's Ames Laboratory have experimentally demonstrated that the superconductivity mechanism in the recently-discovered iron-arsenide superconductors is unique compared to all o...

29 Apr 2009

SEMATECH Collaborate to Develop New Resist Materials

SEMATECH, a global consortium of chipmakers, and Tokyo Ohka Kogyo Co., Ltd. (TOK), a leading manufacturer of photoresists, announced today that TOK has joined SEMATECH's Resist Materials and Development Center (RMDC) at the College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering (CNSE) of the University at Albany.

29 Apr 2009