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Smart NanoBattery Unique Architecture Offers Efficient Energy Management

mPhase Technologies, Inc. is a U.S. based microfluidic and nanotechnology specialist. Through its wholly owned subsidiary Always Ready Inc., mPhase is commercializing its first nanotechnology product, the Smart NanoBatte...

22 Aug 2008

Eastman Chemicals Signs Agreement to License Reduced Sulfur Start-Up Technology to Hydrogen Energy

Hydrogen Energy International LLC and Eastman Chemical Company today announced they have signed a definitive agreement for Eastman to license to HEI its proprietary Reduced Sulfur Start-Up Technology. This patented t...

22 Aug 2008

New Facial Skin Imaging Analysis Detector Assists Anti-Ageing Treatments

The new Clarity Skin Advisor System 1000, a high tech, low cost tool to help build client trust and renew confidence in the skin care expertise and treatments you provide. Using a proven skin analysis technique, Clarity Skin Advisor System 1000 provides skin care specialists an objective and quantifiable method for identifying the diagnostic characteristics of the skin

22 Aug 2008

Solar Energy Producers May Soon Face Difficult Market Change

Solar energy (PV) module production capacity will be almost twice as great as global market demand for PV by the end of this year. This could lead to an oversupply situation and can put many manufacturers in a difficult ...

22 Aug 2008

3M to Install New Detection System Throughout Seoul National University

Seoul National University (SNU), one of South Korea’s largest and most respected institutions of higher education, will install detection and SelfCheck systems from 3M Library Systems at its Central Library and sev...

22 Aug 2008

General Dynamics Awarded with Defence Contract to Supply Chemical Agent Detector Systems

The U.S. Army Research Development and Engineering Command, Aberdeen Proving Ground, MD, has awarded General Dynamics Armament and Technical Products approximately $15.7 million for the first year's production on a s...

22 Aug 2008

Plastic Coatings Could Help Neural Implants Treat Parkinson's Disease and Macular Degeneration

Plastic coatings could someday help neural implants treat conditions as diverse as Parkinson's disease and macular degeneration. The coatings encourage neurons in the body to grow and connect with the electrodes t...

21 Aug 2008

Medieval Churches Were the First to Use Gold Nanoparticles of Different Sizes

Stained glass windows that are painted with gold purify the air when they are lit up by sunlight, a team of Queensland University of Technology experts have discovered. Associate Professor Zhu Huai Yong, from QUT School of Physical and Chemical Sciences said that glaziers in medieval forges were the first nanotechnologists who produced colours with gold nanoparticles of different sizes.

21 Aug 2008

New Market Report Shows Inorganic Metal Finishing Technologies to Grow up to $61.1 billion by 2013

According to a new technical market research report, INORGANIC METAL FINISHING PROCESSES: THE GLOBAL MARKET (MFG019B) from BCC Research, the global market for inorganic metal finishing technologies is expected to grow fr...

21 Aug 2008

The Next Source of Alternative Energy Could Come From Ocean Waves

The next source of alternative energy could come from ocean waves, and Air Force Academy professors have been granted funding to dive into this research. The National Science Foundation has awarded the Academy's ...

21 Aug 2008

Siemens Receive Contract to Supply New Plate Mill and Modnernizing Existing Rolling Line

Siemens VAI Metals Technologies has received orders from China's Shougang International Trade & Engineering Corporation, Beijing, to supply a new 5-meter plate mill and modernize an existing rolling line. The ...

21 Aug 2008

Report Shows Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) Not Ready for Nano-Products

The inability of the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) to carry out its mandate with respect to simple, low-tech products such as children's jewelry and toy trains bodes poorly for its ability to oversee the ...

21 Aug 2008

DuPont Celebrates Operation of Revitalized Plant for Polymer Production

The DuPont Kinston plant in North Carolina recently celebrated 55 years of operations as well as a revitalization of its operations with DuPont Sorona, a renewably sourced polymer that now is being produced at the site

21 Aug 2008

Scientists Unveal Building Blocks for World's Fastest Quantum Computer

The fastest quantum computer bit that exploits the main advantage of the qubit over the conventional bit has been demonstrated by researchers at University of Michigan, U.S. Naval Research Laboratory and the University o...

21 Aug 2008

New Nanoscale Manipulator Shows Unique Applications on the Atomic Scale

Engineers have created a tiny motorized positioning device that has twice the dexterity of similar devices being developed for applications that include biological sensors and more compact, powerful computer hard drives....

21 Aug 2008