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Carpenter to Close UK Metal Strip Facility

Carpenter Technology Corporation (NYSE:CRS) today announced it will close its Crawley, UK, metal strip manufacturing facility as part of an overall plan designed to reduce fixed costs and more efficiently utilize its pro...

22 Mar 2009

First Peer-Reviewed Materials Database on Medical Device Design

The first peer-reviewed materials database to support medical device design
has reached a significant milestone, now providing a total of 22,000 datasheets
and literature references for 10,661 cardiovascular and orthopedic devices,
380 materials and 945 specific material grades.

From ASM International 22 Mar 2009

New Trends in Advanced Turbine Engine Materials

Challenged to produce propulsion systems with higher efficiency and lower
emissions, aerospace turbine engine manufacturers are pursuing solutions that
range from the traditional to the radical.

From ASM International 22 Mar 2009

Groundbreaking Ceremony for New Polysilicon Manufacturing Plant

The Clarksville-Montgomery Economic Development Council in Tennessee hosted
a special groundbreaking ceremony Thursday, March 19th for Hemlock Semiconductor
Group's new polysilicon manufacturing facility.

From Dow Corning 20 Mar 2009

Dow Corning Backs Government's Push to Boost Science

Welcoming the news that the UK government plans to double the amount of students
studying science at school by 2014, Dow
Corning's UK site has brought fun back to the science classroom this
week for over 200 local school children.

From Dow Corning 20 Mar 2009

Indian Blast Furnce Gets Siemens Technology

In February 2009, blast furnace No. 3, which had been installed in the Toranagallu steelworks of the Indian company JSW Steel Ltd. and had been equipped by Siemens VAI Metals Technologies, was commissioned successfully. ...

From Primetals Technologies Limited 20 Mar 2009

Tyre Manufacturer to Sponsor Football League

Starting this year and for the next three years, Pirelli will become the institutional sponsor of the Chinese Super League (CSL), the top professional football championship league in China, organized by the Chinese Footb...

20 Mar 2009

Pyroltyic Boron Nitride Made Available to Thin Photovoltaic Cell Manufacturers

Morgan
Technical Ceramics Chemical Vapor Deposition Materials business (MTC
- CVD Materials) is to offer its Performance Pyrolytic Boron Nitride
(PBN) material for use in manufacturing of the photo absorption layer in thin
film photovoltaic (TFPV) cells.

From Morgan Advanced Materials 20 Mar 2009

Research into Developing Plastics and Coatings that Kill Superbugs

Researchers at the University of Bath are to be part of a €3 million Europe-wide research collaboration to pioneer research into safer, more effective anti-bacterial plastics and coatings that can be used in items s...

20 Mar 2009

BASF Fire Protection Panels Certified to British Standard

BASF's
Palusol SW fire-protection panels have now been certified according to
the British standard: fire-protection doors made with Palusol SW have been successfully
tested for their capacity to withstand fire for 30 and 60 minutes.

20 Mar 2009

Winged Car Gets Lift Off

A prototype of what is being touted as the world's first practical flying
car took to the air for the first time this month, a milestone in a project
started four years ago by students in MIT's
Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics.

20 Mar 2009

New Materials Could See Microchips that Process Data Much Faster than Silicon Chips

New research findings at MIT
could lead to microchips that operate at much higher speeds than is possible
with today's standard silicon chips, leading to cell phones and other communications
systems that can transmit data much faster.

20 Mar 2009

Using Buckyballs to Treat Multiple Sclerosis

If you're of a certain age, you'll remember Buckminster Fuller's distinctive

"geodesic domes" - soccer-ball-shaped structures that the late futurist

envisioned as ideal human domiciles. Tel

Aviv University chemists remember them too - and are now putting them to

use in the treatment of multiple sclerosis.

20 Mar 2009

Overcoming the Challenges of Nanoparticulate Palladium for Fuel Cells

Even small devices need power, and much of that juice comes from fuel cells.

As these devices become even smaller, the rush is on to find more efficient

ways to power them.

20 Mar 2009

Researcher Dicover the Origins of Nanorod Diameter

Researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute have discovered the origins of nanorod diameter, demonstrating that the competition and collaboration among various mechanisms of atomic transport hold the key to nanorod s...

20 Mar 2009