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Structured Materials Installs High Temperature Low Pressure Silicon Carbide CVD System

Structured Materials Industries, Inc. announces the sale, delivery and installation of it’s first Dragon CVDTM tool for the Very High Temperature (through 2200C) and Low Deposition Pressure (sub-Torr to atmosphere)...

9 Nov 2006

GE Plastics Open New Japanese Technology Center

GE Plastics today announced the official opening of its new Japan Technology Center (JTC) located within its Moka City facility to provide Japanese customers with state-of-the-art application development capabilities. As...

9 Nov 2006

ExxonMobil Announce Major Expansion to Halobutyl Manufacturing Plant

ExxonMobil Chemical today announced a major expansion of halobutyl manufacturing at its plant in Baytown, Texas. The U.S. facility will increase capacity to produce Exxon™ Bromobutyl rubber by 60 percent by modifyi...

9 Nov 2006

Metals Conduct Heat by Electromagnetic Radiation at Low Temperatures

In a recent experiment, to be published in Nature on November 9, Dr Matthias Meschke and professor Jukka Pekola, together with Dr Wiebke Guichard, a coworker from French CNRS, investigated heat exchange between two small...

9 Nov 2006

Award for Adherent Antireflective Coating on Borosilicate Glass for Solar Collectors

The Braunschweig Chamber of Commerce and Industry (CCI) awards a prize for the "Adherent antireflection coatings on borosilicate glass for solar collectors" project - Technology transfer prize awarded to scient...

9 Nov 2006

Ovonics Awarded DOE Contract to Develop Hydrogen Internal Combustion Engines

Energy Conversion Devices, Inc. (ECD Ovonics) announced that it was recently awarded a cost-shared contract by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) to continue its work on small hydrogen internal combustion engines. The e...

9 Nov 2006

Old Discovery Could Help Increase Ethanol Production from Renewable Sources

John Verkade remembers just how it happened some 40 years ago: One of his Iowa State University graduate students, David Hendricker, stopped by to report somebody was stealing a little wooden applicator stick from a beak...

9 Nov 2006

High Sensitivity Portable System for Explosives Detection

Terrorism poses an increasingly dangerous and difficult threat to governments and citizens around the world. Keeping airports and public areas secure and disrupting passenger travel as little as possible is a priority fo...

9 Nov 2006

US Demand for Degradable Plastics to Exceed 500 Million Pounds in 2010

Demand for degradable plastic in the U.S. is forecast to expand nearly 17 percent yearly to 500 million pounds in 2010, valued at $610 million. Average prices will continue to decline as a result of higher capacity and g...

9 Nov 2006

ESA Analytical's ZETALIF Provides Ultra-High Sensivity Detection for HPLC

Available from ESA Analytical Ltd. (Dorton, UK) the ZETALIF™ detector provides laboratories with the ability to monitor HPLC eluants down to unprecedented detection levels. Offering sensitivity typically 100-100...

9 Nov 2006

Mechanical Behaviour of Bone Observed Using Synchotron X-Rays

Scientists from Max Planck Institute (Germany) and the ESRF have just discovered the way deformation at the nanoscale takes place in a bone by studying it with the synchrotron X-rays. This study explains the enor-mous st...

9 Nov 2006

Innovative Tire Containing Carbon Fiber and Kevlar Wins Goodyear A Popular Science Magazie Award

An innovative tire from Goodyear, with elements such as carbon fiber and DuPont(TM) KEVLAR(R) inside, has been named one of the "100 Most Innovative Products of the Year" by Popular Science magazine. The Goodyear Eagl...

9 Nov 2006

Memry Corp Secures Worldwide Licence for Biocompatible Coating for Nitinol Stents

Memry Corporation. announced today that it has secured the exclusive worldwide license to an innovative biocompatible coating technology with potential drug-eluting capabilities for use on Nitinol stents. The technol...

9 Nov 2006

Ascent Scientific Add Kainic Acid to its Range of Low Cost Ligands

Ascent Scientific announced the addition of Kainic acid to the Low-Cost Ligand™ range. This standard tool is widely used by scientists – helping research into a vast range of medical conditions including pain...

9 Nov 2006

VTT Develop Biofuel Cell Power Source for Consumer Applications

An enzyme-based power source is a viable source of electricity for the rapidly proliferating RFID tags used in the medical sector and logistics. Applications include plasters containing a memory circuit and measuring ele...

9 Nov 2006