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Nanophotonics Pioneer Receives Top Honor in Nanotechnology Research Excellence

Rice University nanophotonics pioneer Naomi Halas has won one of nanotechnology's top academic honors, the Research Excellence Award from the University of Pennsylvania's Nano/Bio Interface Center (NBIC). Hala...

5 Sep 2008

ArcelorMittal Confident in Market Value of Steel

ArcelorMittal believes that due to the cost increases in raw materials and steel equipment, steel pricing will continue to remain structurally strong. Yesterday's announcement from South Africa reflects specific c...

5 Sep 2008

NASA Announce Fellowships in Exploring Extraterrestrial Worlds

NASA announced Wednesday the new Carl Sagan Postdoctoral Fellowships in Exoplanet Exploration, created to inspire the next generation of explorers seeking to learn more about planets, and possibly life, around other star...

5 Sep 2008

Goodfellow Release Reticulated Foams With An Unusually High Surface Area-to-Volume Ratio

Metal, carbon and ceramic reticulated foams - low-density, permeable structures of cells and continuous ligaments - are available in small quantities to researchers and design engineers from Goodfellow. Thanks in part to the continuous ligaments, reticulated foams have an unusually high surface area-to-volume ratio.

From Goodfellow 5 Sep 2008

Global Market in Electronic Technologies to Reach $17.7 Billion by 2013

According to a new technical market research report, POWER ELECTRONICS: TECHNOLOGIES AND GLOBAL MARKETS (EGY057A) from BCC Research, the global market for power electronics devices was worth $9.8 billion in 2007 and is e...

5 Sep 2008

PGI Launch New Brand Identity Campaign to Promote Company Values

With new bold colors and four dots above the lower cased letters pgi, Polymer Group, Inc. today launched its new brand identity, symbolizing its commitment to achieving leadership in innovation, customer satisfaction, operational excellence and global manufacturing.

5 Sep 2008

Boeing Testing of Wideband Global SATCOM (WGS) Leads to Improvement in Testing Efficiency

Boeing technicians prepare the third Wideband Global SATCOM (WGS) satellite for an around-the-clock sequence of tests inside a thermal-vacuum chamber at the company's satellite manufacturing facility. Boeing recen...

5 Sep 2008

3M Unveils New Mobile ID Reader for Identity Management on the Move

3M helps define portable security with the introduction of the 3M Mobile ID Reader – the complete, hand-held data terminal for identity management on the move. Designed for maximum portability, ease of use and ...

5 Sep 2008

DuPont Opens Solar Materials Production Business in India

DuPont said Wednesday it has opened a solar-materials business in India to help capture part of the rapidly growing market. DuPont Photovoltaic Solutions will sell films, resins, encapsulant sheets, flexible substrate...

5 Sep 2008

New Nanotechnology Enhanced Super Strong Metal for Use in the Automotive and Aerospace Industry

Manhattan Scientifics announced today that a video of its July 2, 2008 press conference regarding the acquisition of Metallicum, Inc. is available at http://www.mhtx.com/media.htm. The video includes footage of U.S. ...

5 Sep 2008

Researchers Tweaks New Class of Polymer-based Semiconductors for Better Control

Organic semiconductors, novel carbon based molecules that have similar electrical properties to more conventional semiconducting materials like silicon and germanium are a hot research topic because practical, high performance organic semiconductors would open up whole new categories of futuristic electronic devices

5 Sep 2008