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Dr. John Tartaglia of Stork CRS Elected to Fellow of ASM International

Senior Metallurgical Engineer and Engineering Manager honored "for contributions in alloy development and testing of metallic and semiconductor materials and extensive research, failure analysis and publication on fatigue, mechanical testing and materials performance."

From ASM International 21 Aug 2008

PANalytical Supports Students on Expedition to the Greenhouse World

On the week-long expedition to Spitsbergen, Norway, the students will look back 55 million years and explore the climate change that took place at that time. In a world that was much warmer than it is now, large quantities of methane gas emitted by vegetation led to a significant greenhouse effect. The consequences were catastrophic, with many species becoming extinct.

21 Aug 2008

Material Scientists Developing Ferroelectric Polymer-Based Capacitor for Hybrid Automobiles

The proliferation of solar, wind and even tidal electric generation and the rapid emergence of hybrid electric automobiles demands flexible and reliable methods of high-capacity electrical storage. Now a team of Penn ...

21 Aug 2008

Scientists Develop New Catalyst for Making Hydrogen from Biofuel

Researchers here have found a way to convert ethanol and other biofuels into hydrogen very efficiently. A new catalyst makes hydrogen from ethanol with 90 percent yield, at a workable temperature, and using inexpensiv...

21 Aug 2008

International Team of Engineers Tasked to Develop Mission-Critical Control Software for Future Robotic Space Missions

Future ESA missions, like the autonomous robotic satellites which will collect and return samples from the surface of Mars, require control systems involving complex requirements, system architectures, software algorithms and hardware implementations. A typical example is the design of a collision avoidance mode requiring a minimum separation distance between chaser and target satellites.

20 Aug 2008

Linde to Open First Hydrogen Fuelling Station in the State of Missouri

Linde North America is providing the hydrogen for Missouri's first hydrogen vehicle refuelling station, which opens today in Rolla. Linde North America is a member of The Linde Group, one of the world’s larg...

20 Aug 2008

Siemens Receives Contract to Connect Coal Mine to Power Station with 13.5km Long Belt Conveyor System

The Siemens Industry Solutions (IS) Division is to serve as the general contractor for the installation of a 13.5-kilometer-long belt conveyor system for Vattenfall Europe Mining AG in the German federal state of Saxony....

20 Aug 2008

Scientists Use Laser to Manipulate and Improve the Properties of Quantum Dots

Their technique, published in Physical Review Letters, could significantly improve quantum dots. The accomplishment could accelerate development of powerful advanced cryptography applications, projected to be a key 21st-century technology.

20 Aug 2008

Scientists Discover Ways to Light Speed Metal Particles by Changing Particle Shape

Scientists at the University of Pennsylvania have theorized a way to increase the speed of pulses of light that bound across chains of tiny metal particles to well past the speed of light by altering the particle shape. ...

20 Aug 2008

NIST Propose Information Standards for Metrology Manufacturing Systems

Information standards enable common activities. For instance, bring your laptop anywhere in the world and you will quickly and cheaply find a wireless Internet connection—due to the globally adopted WiFi standards....

From NIST Standard Reference Materials 20 Aug 2008

Silver-Coated Endotracheal Tubes Gives Critical Patients New Hope

People have long prized silver as a precious metal. Now, silver-coated endotracheal tubes are giving critically ill patients another reason to value the lustrous metal. In a study published in the Aug. 20, 2008 issue...

20 Aug 2008

Leading Scientist to Discuss New Instrument for Controlling the Size of Nanoclusters

Melissa Patterson, a W. Burghardt Turner Fellow at Stony Brook University (SBU), will give a talk at the American Chemical Societys national meeting in Philadelphia on controlling the size of nanoclusters, research she performed using a new instrument at the U.S. Department of Energys Brookhaven National Laboratory.

20 Aug 2008