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Patent for a New Efficient Way to Make Ceramic Silicon Carbide Films

A patent for a new way of making an industrial ceramic that is used widely in semiconductors, industrial abrasives, and as a diamond substitute has been issued to University of Massachusetts Amherst chemist Patricia Bian...

18 Sep 2007

Xstrata Coal Bid to Acquire Austral Coal Limited

Xstrata Coal Pty Limited has announced its intention to make an off-market takeover cash bid to acquire 100% of shares in Austral Coal Limited for A$1.83 per share, valuing Austral at approximately A$557M on a fully dilu...

18 Sep 2007

Timken to Acquire Purdy Corp.

Timken has announced that it has entered into an agreement to acquire the assets of The Purdy Corp., a leading precision manufacturer and systems integrator for military and commercial aviation customers, for $200 millio...

From The Timken Co. 18 Sep 2007

Photodiodes and Receivers for up to 10Gbps

AMS Technologies has introduced a family of photodiodes and receivers for 850nm, 1310nm and 1550nm from OSI Optoelectronics. They are specifically designed and manufactured for optical communications applications up to 1...

18 Sep 2007

Xerox Unveils $60 Million Next Generation Toner Plant

Xerox Corporation has began filling more than 20 miles of pipe and stainless steel tanks with billions of micron-sized toner particles with the opening of its first U.S.-based emulsion aggregation (EA) Toner plant. T...

18 Sep 2007

Nucor to Acquire Nelson Steel

Nucor Corporation have announced that it has entered into an agreement to acquire substantially all of the assets of Nelson Steel, Inc. for a cash purchase price of approximately $54 million. Finalization of the acqu...

17 Sep 2007

Institution of Chemical Engineers and Elsevier Enter Publishing Agreement

The Institution of Chemical Engineers (IChemE) and Elsevier have announced a new partnership to publish the four international journals Chemical Engineering Research and Design, Process Safety and Environmental Protectio...

From Elsevier - Materials Science & Technology Publisher 17 Sep 2007

Unique Capping Process Enables Cost-Effective Addition of Specialized Properties

Spartech Corporation, a leading producer of engineered plastic sheet, polymeric compounds, and engineered products, will showcase its ROYALITER family of sheet products for medical and dental applications at the SPE Ther...

From Spartech Corporation 17 Sep 2007

NSW Premier Opens World-First Power Generation Project at BHP Billiton's West Cliff Mine

The Premier of New South Wales, Morris Iemma MP, has officially opened BHP Billiton’s West Cliff Ventilation Air Methane Project (WestVAMP) – a world-first greenhouse gas reduction initiative. Situated at ...

17 Sep 2007

New Technique Safely Deposits Novel Metal Oxide Thin Films on Substrates

University at Buffalo chemists have developed a novel way to grow chemically pure, zinc oxide thin films characterized by dense, bristle-like nanostructures and a new method for depositing them on temperature-sensitive s...

17 Sep 2007

Securing the Nation's Bridge Cables

These days, a drive across a bridge is not always a pleasure cruise. Mindful of the war on terrorism, it can often be a cautious experience. In one scenario, a terrorist sets off a series of bombs to weaken the c...

17 Sep 2007

Future Theoretical Models of Exotic Spin States

A team of international physicists that includes researchers from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has found experimental evidence of a highly sought-after type of arrangement of atomic magnetic ...

17 Sep 2007

Novel Method for Nanostructured Polymer Thin Films

All researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) wanted was a simple, quick method for making thin films of block copolymers or BCPs (chemically distinct polymers linked together) in order to ...

17 Sep 2007

Passive Cooling of a Micromechanical Oscillator with a Resonant Electric Circuit

Visible and ultraviolet laser light has been used for years to cool trapped atoms—and more recently larger objects—by reducing the extent of their thermal motion. Now, applying a different form of radiati...

17 Sep 2007

Red Wine for Mineral Exploration

The key to finding new mineral deposits in Australia could be to start looking with a glass of wine or a soft drink. In a fascinating piece of spare-time research, CSIRO Exploration & Mining scientist Dr Ryan Nobl...

17 Sep 2007