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NanoGram Enters Joint Venture Agreement with Tokyo Electron for Advanced Development of Thin Films Deposition

NanoGram Corporation, a leading developer and manufacturer of advanced products and solutions for optical, electronic and energy applications, announced today that it has extended its relationship with Tokyo Electron, Lt...

12 Nov 2008

BASF Invests in New Startup Producer of Silver Nanoparticles for Electrical Components

BASF Venture Capital GmbH, Ludwigshafen, has invested in the US startup company NanoMas Technologies Inc. NanoMas develops inks containing silver nanoparticles that are easily processed to electrical circuits in printed ...

12 Nov 2008

Scientists Breed Biomimetic Surfaces from Molecular Coating

Proteins play a decisive role in both the tolerability of contact lenses and the adherence of mussels to the hulls of ships. They develop a biofilm during their initial contact with the foreign material. This highly complex process is extremely difficult to study.

12 Nov 2008

Samsung Wins An Unprecedented 46 International CES Innovations 2009 Design and Engineering Awards

Products entered in this prestigious program are judged by a preeminent panel of independent industrial designers, engineers and members of the trade press to honor outstanding design and engineering in cutting edge consumer electronics products.

12 Nov 2008

New Tool Help Researchers Perform Own Saftey Analysis on Nanomaterials

The ICON EHS Database Analysis Tool offers a way for researchers at universities, nongovernmental organizations, government and industry worldwide to analyze ICON’s database of citations to peer-reviewed publications addressing nanomaterials’ environmental, health and safety impacts.

12 Nov 2008

Air New Zealand and Boeing Announce Date for Sustainable Biofuel Test Flights

Air New Zealand and Boeing [NYSE: BA] today announced Dec. 3 as the date for the airline's sustainable biofuels flight from Auckland using a 747-400 jetliner. Conducted in partnership with Rolls-Royce and UOP, a Hone...

12 Nov 2008

Tegal Introduce New ICP Deep Reactive Ion Etch System for MEMS Sensor Markets

Tegal Corporation (NASDAQ:TGAL), a leading designer and manufacturer of plasma etch and deposition systems, announced today that the Company had shipped a Tegal 200SE ICP deep reactive ion etch (DRIE) system to a leading...

12 Nov 2008

Trelleborg Strengthens Specialized Steel Surface Treatment Operations

Trelleborg is integrating an existing supplier in the specialized surface treatment of steel into the Trelleborg Automotive business area. The plant is located in Gävle, Sweden, and was previously owned by the Finni...

12 Nov 2008

Protective Road Barrier Reflector Produced from BASF Styrene-based Specialty Plastic

In doing so it has been able to replace the steel previously used for the mountings by a steel-gray colored variant of this acrylate-styrene-acrylonitrile polymer (ASA).

12 Nov 2008

Researchers Creates New Molecule Stopping the SARS Virus

A Purdue University researcher has created a compound that prevents replication of the virus that causes SARS and could lead to a treatment for the disease. "The outbreak of SARS in 2003 led to hundreds of deaths...

12 Nov 2008

New Research in Developing Real-time Nanoscale Toxic Chemical Sensor

Clemson physics professor Apparao Rao and his team are researching nano-scale cantilevers that have the potential to read and alert us to toxic chemicals or gases in the air.

12 Nov 2008

OSRAM Introduce New MultiLED Developed Specially for High -Resolution Displays

OSRAM Opto Semiconductors is launching two new MultiLEDs for different LED video displays. The new MultiLED in the jet black package has been developed specially for high-resolution displays. As the blackest LED curre...

12 Nov 2008

Leading Project in Developing Simulation for Safer Production Methods for Cement and Nanomaterials

The TECNALIA Technological Corporation is leading five projects within the VII Framework Programme with regard to the simulation of cement materials, nanomaterials for building safer aircraft, communications and mobility...

12 Nov 2008

Using Carbon Nanotubes for Memory and Data Storage

Computers are getting smaller and smaller. And as hand-held devices —
from mobile phones and cameras to music players and laptops — get more
powerful, the race is on to develop memory formats that can satisfy the ever-growing
demand for information storage on tiny formats.

12 Nov 2008

Lucite Begins Producing Methyl Methacrylate Using New Energy Efficient Technology

The Board of Lucite International
Group Limited is delighted to announce that the world's first Alpha plant
has begun producing methyl methacrylate (MMA).

12 Nov 2008