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Laser Emission from a Single Artificial Atom Achieved by Japanese Researchers

RIKEN, NEC Corporation, and JST (“Japan Science and Technology Agency”) have successfully demonstrated a laser emission from one artificial atom by coupling superconducting quantum bits (“qubits”)...

4 Oct 2007

Study Shows Materials Technologies Can Affect the Outcome of Tennis Matches

Professional tennis could be played under more standardised conditions following research carried out by University of Bath student. The research, funded by the International Tennis Federation, looked at the effect t...

4 Oct 2007

Ceramic Fuel Cells Awarded Another European Patent

Ceramic Fuel Cells Limited (“CFCL”), a leading developer of solid oxide fuel cells (SOFC) for micro-combined heat and power units (m-CHP), has been granted another European patent for its innovative fuel cell...

4 Oct 2007

Polymer-Based Organic Photovoltaic Manufacturer Secures $45 Million in Financing

Konarka Technologies, Inc., an innovator in development and commercialization of Power Plastic®, a material that converts light to energy, today announced it has raised $45 million in private capital financing. The f...

4 Oct 2007

Sigma Aldrich to begin Construction of a Pharmaceutical Ingredients Suite

SAFC(R), a member of the Sigma-Aldrich(TM) Group, has announced its plans to begin construction of a new cGMP potent active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs) conjugation suite at its Pharma sector's St. Louis manufac...

From Sigma-Aldrich 4 Oct 2007

Steel Dynamics to Acquire One of North America's Largest Scrap Recycling Companies

Steel Dynamics, Inc. and OmniSource Corporation have announced the execution of a definitive agreement whereby Steel Dynamics (SDI) will acquire OmniSource, one of North America’s largest scrap recycling companies,...

4 Oct 2007

Tokuyama Successfully Start Up Epitaxy Reactor for UV-LED Production

AIXTRON AG is pleased to announce the successful start-up of an AIXTRON 200/4 RF-S epitaxy reactor at Tokuyama, Japan. The system is used for the development and production of AlGaN based ultra-violet light emitting diod...

4 Oct 2007

New Eco-Friendly Chemical Process Report

The global chemical industry increasingly realizes that sustainability must be considered as an important business metric when evaluating any new product or process. Today, SRI Consulting (SRIC) released its new Eco-Effi...

4 Oct 2007

Thermax and Georgia-Pacific Chemicals Tie Up Performance Chemical Partnership

Thermax Limited and Georgia-Pacific Chemicals LLC, based in Atlanta, Ga., USA, have signed a technology and manufacturing license agreement for performance enhancing chemicals which find extensive applications in the pap...

4 Oct 2007

European Chemicals and Polymer Distributor Expands into India

The Azelis Group’s goal to go global has taken a big step forward with the announcement of its acquisition of 49% of the shares of Marigold International Pvt. Ltd, an Indian distributor of polymers and chemicals ba...

4 Oct 2007

Connexion Deploying Corning's Bend Insensitive Optical Fiber

Corning Cable Systems, part of Corning Incorporated's Telecommunications segment, announces that Connexion Technologies is deploying products from Corning's revolutionary ClearCurve™ product suite in a West...

4 Oct 2007

Brazillian Manufacturer Using More Titanium Dioxide

DuPont Titanium Technologies (DTT) recently hosted an educational visit for Cromex, a leading Brazilian consumer of titanium dioxide (TiO2). Cromex representatives were introduced to DuPont science and innovation in Wilm...

4 Oct 2007

JEOL Develop New High Energy Double Layer Supercapacitor

JEOL Ltd. and Advanced Capacitor Technologies Inc. have developed a new model of high energy double layer supercapacitor, Premlis®, featuring an enhanced energy density of 30 Wh/kg, and a new battery, “Capacito...

4 Oct 2007

Ancient Greeks Built Complex Machines with No Understanding of the Maths

Move over, Archimedes. A researcher at Harvard University is finding that ancient Greek craftsmen were able to engineer sophisticated machines without necessarily understanding the mathematical theory behind their constr...

4 Oct 2007

New Sensor Can Detect Leaks in Spacecraft

Tiny meteors flash through space. There’s spacecraft debris flying around, too. And so there’s a risk that objects just a few millimeters across could pierce the thin aluminum skin of spacecraft such as the I...

4 Oct 2007