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NanoDynamics Energy Demonstrates G4 Cell Efficiencies at Fuel Cell Seminar 2007

NanoDynamics Energy Inc. recently presented preliminary test data demonstrating efficiencies of its G4 cell in excess of 60 percent between 750 and 850 degrees Celsius, while also illustrating 800 hours of operation time...

28 Nov 2007

Timken Bearings Plays Key Role in 126-Ton Antennae Transportation into Chilean Andes

The Timken Company announced today that its highly engineered tapered roller bearings will play a key role in transporting 126-ton high-precision antennae into the Chilean Andes, where a radio telescope array will enable...

From The Timken Co. 28 Nov 2007

Timken Racing Hub Kit Contributes to Several Successful Championship Race Teams

The Timken Company has contributed to the recent success of several championship race teams around the country with its Wide Five Performance Racing Hub Kit. Designed specifically for wide five wheel hub designs and freq...

From The Timken Co. 28 Nov 2007

Latest Table-Top Optical Profiling System Available from Veeco

Veeco Instruments Inc., today announced the release of the Wyko(R) NT9100(TM) Optical Profiling System, which delivers the performance and many of the capabilities of Veeco's full-sized profiling systems in a conveni...

28 Nov 2007

Veeco's Patent Infringement Action Against Asylum Research Corporation

Veeco Instruments Inc., today announced that the United States District Court in Los Angeles issued an order in Veeco's patent infringement action against Asylum Research Corporation. The order was issued on March 19...

From Asylum Research - An Oxford Instruments Company 28 Nov 2007

Gazprom Examines Prospects of Setting Up Petrochemical Production Facilities in Joint Venture

Today at the Gazprom Headquarters Alexey Miller, Chairman of the Gazprom Management Committee, Dmitry Konov, President of Sibur Holding, Andrew Liveris, President, Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Dow Chemical...

28 Nov 2007

Gazprom Envisage Significant Cooperation Prospects for Gas and Petrochemical Industries

Today the Gazprom Headquarters has hosted a working meeting between Alexander Ananenkov, Deputy Chairman of Gazprom Management Committee and Sumitaka Fujita, Vice Chairman of Itochu Corporation Board of Directors. Th...

28 Nov 2007

Gazprom Establishes Trading Group with World Leader in Gas and Oil Chemical

BASF AG and Gazprom have established Gazprom YRGM Trading within the Agreement on Share Swap between BASF and Gazprom in the authorized capital of Severneftegazprom. Gazprom YRGM Trading will purchase gas produced in...

28 Nov 2007

ThyssenKrupp Xervon Installs New Control System at PVC Production Site

ThyssenKrupp Xervon has completed a particularly delicate task at a PVC production site in Cologne-Merkenich, where the somewhat antiquated process instrumentation and control system was replaced by a modern one. Pre-ass...

28 Nov 2007

Scientists Discover Way to Make Eco-Friendly Biodiesel Even Greener

Scientists at the University of Leeds are turning low-grade sludge into high-value gas in a process which could make eco-friendly biodiesel even greener and more economical to produce. Biodiesel – motor fuel de...

28 Nov 2007

Xstrata Launches Feasibility Studies on Expanding Molybdenum Processing at Altonorte

Xstrata Copper's North Chile Division announces the commencement of feasibility studies on an expansion to more than double molybdenum processing capacity at its Altonorte metallurgical facility. The project'...

28 Nov 2007

New Catalyst-Free Self-Healing Material Offers a More Practical Method to Repair Composite Materials

A new catalyst-free, self-healing material system developed by researchers at the University of Illinois offers a far less expensive and far more practical way to repair composite materials used in structural application...

28 Nov 2007

First High Performance Field Effect Transistors with Carbon 60 Thin Films Fabricated

Using room-temperature processing, researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology have fabricated high-performance field effect transistors with thin films of Carbon 60, also known as fullerene. The ability to produc...

27 Nov 2007

Researchers Track Airborne Distribution of Chlorinated Flame Retardant

A study by Indiana University researchers found the chlorinated flame retardant Dechlorane Plus in the bark of trees across the northeastern United States, with by far the highest concentrations measured near the Niagara...

27 Nov 2007

Nuclear Energy Research Moves Toward Greater Reliance on Computer Simulation

The U.S. Department of Energy’s Argonne National Laboratory is taking its nuclear energy research into new territory – virtual territory that is. With the recent arrival of the new IBM Blue Gene/P and the...

27 Nov 2007