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New Video Demonstrates Innovatove Lithium Battery Powering a Flashlight

Leading microfludics and nanotechnology development company mPhase Technologies, Inc., today announced that it has released a video demonstrating how its manually activated reserve lithium battery with breakable separato...

3 Oct 2008

ExxonMobil Chemical Complete Expansion to Singaporean Hydrocarbon Fluids Plant

ExxonMobil Chemical has completed a 130,000 tons per year capacity expansion at its Exxsol hydrocarbon fluids plant in Jurong Island, Singapore, increasing capacity at this site to more than 500,000 tons per year. The ne...

3 Oct 2008

Eastman Tritan Copolyesters Give More Versatility to Designers of Infant Care Products

Eastman
Chemical Company announced today that brand owners, product designers and
molders in the infant care market can now achieve greater design flexibility
and provide consumers with enhanced product performance by using Eastman Tritan™
copolyester for products like baby bottles, pacifiers and sippy cups.

3 Oct 2008

New Technology for Producing Flexible Displays for Televisions and Laptops

Rigid television screens, bulky laptops and still image posters are to be a thing of the past as new research, published today, Thursday, 2 October, in the New Journal of Physics, heralds the beginning of a technological...

2 Oct 2008

Corning's Microreactor Technology Shown to be Commercially Viable

Corning Incorporated
and DSM Pharma Chemicals announced publication of a joint paper at CPhI Worldwide
2008 in Frankfurt, Germany this week, describing a successful, commercially
viable demonstration of Corning's microreactor technology for Current
Good Manufacturing Practice (cGMP) production.

2 Oct 2008

Nanoparticles Used to Treat Paralysis Delivering Treatments to Brain and Spinal Cord

Purdue University researchers have developed a method of using nanoparticles to deliver treatments to injured brain and spinal cord cells. A team led by Richard Borgens of the School of Veterinary Medicine's Cent...

2 Oct 2008

Veeco Sell Automated 3D AFM to Korean Semiconductor Manufacturer

Veeco
Instruments announced today that its new InSight(TM) 3D Automated
Atomic Force Microscope (3DAFM) Platform has been accepted by a key global semiconductor
customer for Critical Dimension (CD) Reference Metrology for Optical Proximity
Correction (OPC) modeling.

From Veeco 2 Oct 2008

Braskem Succeed in Making Polypropylene from Completely Renewable Sources

Braskem took another important step towards consolidating its leadership in the development of green plastics by producing the first samples of polypropylene from 100% renewable raw material with international certificat...

2 Oct 2008

Advanced Composites Group to Perform Ground-Breaking Research into Turbine Generators

Derbyshire-based Advanced Composites Group Ltd (ACG), part of the Composites Division of Umeco plc, is to play a major role in two ground-breaking research and development projects into turbine generators that could have...

2 Oct 2008

BHP Billiton's Merger with Rio Tinto Receives Clearance

BHP Billiton today welcomed the decision by the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission that it does not object to BHP Billiton's proposed acquisition of Rio Tinto. "We are very pleased to have receive...

From BHP 2 Oct 2008

Uhde Win Contract for Two New Coke Plants in Japan

OTTO Corporation of Tokyo has commissioned Uhde to provide comprehensive engineering and supply services within the scope of two plant contracts received by the Japanese company from JFE Steel Corporation and MCC Mitsubi...

2 Oct 2008

New Application Note on Light Scattering/Gel Permeation Chromatography from ViscoTek

Viscotek has announced an on-demand presentation (http://www.viscotek.com/gpcsels.aspx) and application note that describes a new light scattering technique that could be very helpful in Gel Permeation Chromatography (GP...

2 Oct 2008

American Superconductor Ships Largest Quantity of 2G HTS Wire in the World

American Superconductor Corporation, announced today that it has manufactured
and shipped approximately 17,000 meters (56,000 feet) of its proprietary second
generation (2G) high temperature superconductor (HTS) wire, branded as 344 superconductors,
from the company’s manufacturing facility in Devens, MA for use in Project
HYDRA. This is the single largest shipment of 2G HTS wire by any company worldwide.

From American Superconductor 2 Oct 2008

New Silicone Sealants Offer Advantages over Existing Window Sealants

To supplement its existing construction sealants range for window construction,
door seals and sanitary applications, WACKER
has developed three novel silicone sealants: ELASTOSIL® 7000 N, ELASTOSIL®
8000 N and ELASTOSIL® 9000 N. These novel silicone rubber compounds have
special properties that meet customer demands for improved curing, cracking
resistance and processing times.

2 Oct 2008

New Lower Cost Option for Small Form Factor Board-to-Board Connectors and Box Headers

Printed circuit board manufacturers and electronics manufacturing services
companies now have a lower cost option for small form factor board-to-board
connectors and box headers.

2 Oct 2008