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New Marketing Agreement Reached for Turnkey Hot Melt Adhesive Coating Stations

Extrusion Dies Industries, LLC (EDI) and ITW
Dynatec have reached a worldwide agreement to market turnkey hot melt adhesive
coating stations combining ITW Dynatec's melting and fluid delivery equipment
with EDI's slot die systems, the companies announced today.

7 Apr 2009

IMEC to Expand Research on Sub-32nm CMOS, High-Efficiency Solar Cells and Biomedical Electronics

IMEC, the Belgian nanoelectronics
research institute, has announced that it has begun expanding its Leuven campus
facilities, starting with 2,800 square-meters of research labs and including
the extension of its state-of-the-art clean room. With this extension, IMEC
will expand its research on sub-32nm CMOS, low-cost and high-efficiency solar
cells, and biomedical electronics.

From IMEC 7 Apr 2009

Copper Cold Forming Experts Acquire FloForm

Dawson Shanahan
Limited, the Potters Bar based copper coldforming experts, has announced
its acquisition of FloForm,
the Welshpool based supplier of coldformed components for the automotive and
power semi conductor industries.

7 Apr 2009

Leading Aluminum Fabricator Streamlines Fabricated Products Business

Kaiser Aluminum Corporation (Nasdaq:KALU) today announced a reorganization of operations management to streamline the management structure for the Fabricated Products business with Peter Bunin assuming expanded responsib...

7 Apr 2009

New Cathode Can Imnprove Safety and Longevity of Future Lithium Ion Batteries

A new high-energy cathode material that can greatly increase the safety and extend the life-span of future lithium batteries has been developed through the close international collaboration of researchers led by the U.S....

7 Apr 2009

Silver Chloride Microparticles Use Diffusiophoresis to Work as a Team

A swarm of tiny machines, speeding in concert through the bloodstream to repair

an organ or deliver a drug to its target area, microrobots working together

to construct a nanotechnological component-although it sounds like science

fiction, it is a thoroughly realistic future scenario.

From John Wiley and Sons - Scientific Publishers 7 Apr 2009

Unprecedented Steps Taken Towards Building Nodes in Manufacturable Volumes for Chipmakers

The ability to do more with less is about to become a reality as the chip industry is offered a way to increase performance without adding complexity. Semiconductor Research Corporation (SRC), the world's leading uni...

7 Apr 2009

What is Nano Competition Winners Announced

American

Chemical Society (ACS) has announced the winners of the "What is Nano?"

video contest held by ACS Nanotation, the Web community site for nanoscience

and nanotechnology researchers and enthusiasts.

7 Apr 2009

Understanding of Nanoscale Features Can Have Major Influence on Physical Properties

A new study of silver niobate not only opens the door to engineering improved

electronic components for smaller, higher performance wireless devices, but

also serves as an example of understanding how subtle nanoscale features of

a material can give rise to major changes in its physical properties.

7 Apr 2009

Newly Developed LED's Produce Twice as Much Light as Standard LED's

Improving the efficiency of commercially available light bulbs

-- even a little -- could translate into dramatically lower energy usage if

implemented widely.

7 Apr 2009

Compact Fluorescent Light Bulbs Could become Even More Energy Efficient

Long touted as an energy-saving alternative for home lighting, compact fluorescent

lightbulbs (CFLs) now have the potential to be even more efficient, as well

as dimmable, thanks to research at Queen's

University.

7 Apr 2009

Polysius Consolidates Sinter Expertise

Polysius AG in Beckum, Germany, entered into the field of high temperature kilns for producing sintered magnesia, dolomite and alumina, as well as multiple hearth furnaces for calcining fine-grained raw materials and slu...

7 Apr 2009

Rio Tinto Alcan Take Measures to Deal with Weakening Economy

Rio Tinto Alcan today announced it will slow the construction of the Yarwun alumina refinery expansion in Gladstone and curtail annual bauxite production at its Weipa mine to 15 million tonnes (from 19.4 million tonnes i...

7 Apr 2009