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ExxonMobil Receives Leading Innovation Award for Battery Separator Film Technology

The technology, pioneered by a team of ExxonMobil scientists led by Dr. Pat Brant, won the 2008 ICIS Chemical Business award for Best Product Innovation because it can significantly improve the power, capacity, stability and safety margins of lithium-ion batteries.

14 Oct 2008

CERAM Announce Annual Workshop to Focus on Critical Surface Analysis Techniques

CERAM Surface and Materials Analysis is pleased to announce the dates of this year's annual Surface Analysis Workshop, which will take place on Thursday 23 October at CSMA's headquarters.

14 Oct 2008

CERAM Highlights Novel Techniques in Combating Counterfeit Drugs

CERAM Surface and Materials Analysis has published a white paper highlighting how surface analysis can expose counterfeit medicines.

14 Oct 2008

Scientists Takes Closer Look at the Development of Mysterious Nanobubbles

Scientists are puzzled by the nanobubbles that can develop on surfaces under water. It should be impossible for them to exist but nevertheless they remain intact for hours.

14 Oct 2008

NIH Supported Research Developing Magnetic Nanoparticles to Treat Breast and Prostate Cancer

Formerly a professor at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Leslie-Pelecky forged a partnership with the clinic’s Dr. Vinod Labhasetwar in the Department of Biomedical Engineering. They partnered to pursue cancer treatments that “stick” treated magnetic nanoparticles (MNPs) of iron oxide to tumors using magnets outside the body.

14 Oct 2008

Development of New Tools Help Revolutionize Process of Creating New Technological Devices

Researchers have accurately identified tools that model the atomic and void structures of a network-forming elemental material.

14 Oct 2008

Skyray Announce Release of Third Generation of Award Winning Portable XRF System

Skyray Instrument is continually improving upon its already high performing line of x-ray fluorescence instruments. The latest developments were in the evolution of the handheld XRF analyzer line; The Pocket-line.

14 Oct 2008

Solar Botanic Demonstrate New Innovative Nanotechnology Method for Energy Capture

More powerful than wind farms, more efficient than solar panels and more practical and aesthetically pleasing than both. Solar Botanic is a company which harvests the energy of the sun and wind by incorporating estab...

14 Oct 2008

Harvard's Black Silicon Laser Implant Technique Receives Exclusive License from SiOnyx

Harvard University's Office of Technology Development (OTD) and SiOnyx, Inc. today announced that SiOnyx has exclusively licensed Harvard's portfolio of black silicon patents. Black silicon, a novel laser imp...

14 Oct 2008

New EDX-3000 Desktop X-Ray Fluorescence Analyzer Growing in Popularity Amongst Industry

Skyray XRF has released the lower cost EDX-3000 model for budget minded organizations that prefer in-house control over compliance analysis.

14 Oct 2008

QuantumSphere Receives U.S. Army Contract for Development of Advanced Fuel Cell Technology

QuantumSphere, Inc., a leading developer of advanced catalyst materials, high performance electrodes, and related technologies and systems for portable power and clean-energy applications, today announced that it has bee...

14 Oct 2008

DOE Takes Pride in Researchers Co-Winning the 2008 Nobel Prize in Chemistry

U.S. Department of Energy Under Secretary for Science Dr. Raymond L. Orbach has congratulated Osamu Shimomura, Martin Chalfie and Roger Y. Tsien for co-winning the 2008 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for transforming a green f...

14 Oct 2008

European Scientists Gather to Pave Way for Brighter Future in Optical Circuits

By working together to share costs and know-how, European researchers are shaking up the way research and development is carried out on optical chips. Optics has come a long way since the 1960s. Today, it is more than...

14 Oct 2008

QinetiQ Helps Australia Defence Material Organisation Save $400 million in F/A-18 Hornet Refurbishment

Australia’s Minister for Defence acknowledges the expertise provided by QinetiQ in ground breaking aircraft life extension project

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Siemens to Supply Propulsion System for German Navy Frigates

Siemens has received an order to equip four German navy Class F125 frigates with propulsion equipment and integrated automation and control systems. The customer is a joinder of the shipyard companies Krupp Marine System...

14 Oct 2008

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ExxonMobil Receives Leading Innovation Award for Battery Separator Film Technology

CERAM Announce Annual Workshop to Focus on Critical Surface Analysis Techniques

CERAM Highlights Novel Techniques in Combating Counterfeit Drugs

Scientists Takes Closer Look at the Development of Mysterious Nanobubbles

NIH Supported Research Developing Magnetic Nanoparticles to Treat Breast and Prostate Cancer

Development of New Tools Help Revolutionize Process of Creating New Technological Devices

Skyray Announce Release of Third Generation of Award Winning Portable XRF System

Solar Botanic Demonstrate New Innovative Nanotechnology Method for Energy Capture

Harvard's Black Silicon Laser Implant Technique Receives Exclusive License from SiOnyx

New EDX-3000 Desktop X-Ray Fluorescence Analyzer Growing in Popularity Amongst Industry

QuantumSphere Receives U.S. Army Contract for Development of Advanced Fuel Cell Technology

DOE Takes Pride in Researchers Co-Winning the 2008 Nobel Prize in Chemistry

European Scientists Gather to Pave Way for Brighter Future in Optical Circuits

QinetiQ Helps Australia Defence Material Organisation Save $400 million in F/A-18 Hornet Refurbishment

Siemens to Supply Propulsion System for German Navy Frigates

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