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Ceradyne Receives $75.5 Million Ceramic Body Armour Contract

Ceradyne has announced the receipt of a $75.5 million delivery order for its lightweight ceramic body armour. This is the third delivery order received under the $461 million indefinite delivery/indefinite quantity (ID/I...

29 Jun 2005

Bodycote Materials Testing - Los Angeles Laboratory Receives GE Approval for Creep Testing

Bodycote Materials Testing - Los Angeles Laboratory in Santa Fe Springs, CA (USA) receives GE Approval for Creep testing. GE Aircraft Engines auditor was extremely impressed with the Lab's performance in the last...

29 Jun 2005

BASF Acquires 100 Percent of Fine Chemical Company Orgamol

BASF will acquire 100 percent of the Swiss fine chemicals company Orgamol S.A. The necessary majority of Orgamol’s Swiss employees today (June 25, 2005) approved with more than 99 percent the sale of their 25 perce...

29 Jun 2005

BAE Systems Receives Orders Worth $1.127 Billion To Remanufacture And Upgrade Bradley Combat System Vehicles

BAE Systems has been awarded a series of delivery orders and contract modifications worth $1.127 billion from the U.S. Army Tank-automotive and Armaments Command (TACOM) to remanufacture and upgrade more than 500 Bradley...

29 Jun 2005

Preservation of Strong Trade Laws Called Key Component of North American Steel Strategy

Based on preliminary Census Bureau data, the American Iron and Steel Institute (AISI) has reported that the United States imported a total of 2,609,000 net tons (NT) of steel in May, including 2,149,000 NT of finished st...

29 Jun 2005

Alcoa Showcases Technological Advancements at 7th European Automotive Lightweight Conference

Alcoa has announced that it will showcase its technological advancements in the use of aluminum in the automotive market at the 7th European Automotive Lightweight Conference in Bad Nauheim, Germany. The Alcoa aluminu...

29 Jun 2005

Hydro to Close German Aluminium Plant in Stade

The Supervisory Board of Hydro Aluminium Deutschland has approved the closure of the aluminium plant in Stade, Germany, due to the strong increase in power prices that makes continuous operations in Stade unsustainable. ...

29 Jun 2005

Florida Ultrahigh-Speed Data Network Will Move Petabytes of Data

Whether mapping genes, probing elemental particles or monitoring global warming, more and more scientists rely on massive data vaults located at universities and institutions around the world. Now, researchers at 10 F...

28 Jun 2005

Nimble Math Reveals How Forces Ripple Across a Lab Version of a Granular Mass

Using color-changing plastic cylinders as a stand-in for a mass of granular material, Duke University physicists have created a computer-testable method to predict, particle-by-particle, how pushes, nudges and shoves at ...

28 Jun 2005

Better Understanding of How Glasses Differ from Liquids at the Atomic Level

University of Chicago physicists have made careful measurements of flowing sand that can help resolve longstanding questions regarding how glasses differ from liquids at the atomic level, the scientists reported their fi...

28 Jun 2005

New Form of Matter

MIT scientists have brought a supercool end to a heated race among physicists: They have become the first to create a new type of matter, a gas of atoms that shows high-temperature superfluidity. Their work, reported...

28 Jun 2005

New X-ray Resource for Studying Molecules

Soon scientists at Argonne National Laboratory near Chicago, Ill., will test-drive what many call the "Ferrari" of synchrotron beamlines--high-tech research facilities for imaging molecules. During a dedication...

28 Jun 2005

New Magnetic Techniques for Microstructural Characterisation of Steels

Traditionally, it has been necessary to mechanically destroy the material in order to analyze its microstructure by means of a microscope, i.e. to get a small sample, to polish it and to attack it with chemical compounds...

28 Jun 2005

New Material Could Improve the Fabrication of Increasingly Smaller Electronic Devices

A team of chemists at Penn State has developed a new type of ultrathin film, which has unusual properties that could improve the fabrication of increasingly smaller and more intricate electronic and sensing devices. The ...

28 Jun 2005

High-Frequency Sound Waves Used to Turn Oily Liquid Mixtures to Jelly

A burst of high-frequency sound waves is enough to turn a range of oily liquid mixtures to jelly. Because the reaction is reversible, it could be used to remotely control the viscosity of liquid shock absorbers in cars o...

28 Jun 2005

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The Current State of the Global Semiconductor Market

The global semiconductor market has entered an exciting period. Demand for chip technology is both driving the industry as well as hindering it, with current chip shortages predicted to last for some time. Current trends will likely shape the future of the industry, which is set to continue to show

How are Graphene Batteries Made?

The primary distinction between graphene-based batteries and solid-state batteries lies in the composition of either electrode. Although the cathode is commonly changed, carbon allotropes can also be employed in fabricating anodes.

What Role Will The IoT Play In The Electric Vehicle Industry?

In recent years, the IoT is rapidly being introduced into almost all sectors, but it has particular importance in the EV industry.

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Ceradyne Receives $75.5 Million Ceramic Body Armour Contract

Bodycote Materials Testing - Los Angeles Laboratory Receives GE Approval for Creep Testing

BASF Acquires 100 Percent of Fine Chemical Company Orgamol

BAE Systems Receives Orders Worth $1.127 Billion To Remanufacture And Upgrade Bradley Combat System Vehicles

Preservation of Strong Trade Laws Called Key Component of North American Steel Strategy

Alcoa Showcases Technological Advancements at 7th European Automotive Lightweight Conference

Hydro to Close German Aluminium Plant in Stade

Florida Ultrahigh-Speed Data Network Will Move Petabytes of Data

Nimble Math Reveals How Forces Ripple Across a Lab Version of a Granular Mass

Better Understanding of How Glasses Differ from Liquids at the Atomic Level

New Form of Matter

New X-ray Resource for Studying Molecules

New Magnetic Techniques for Microstructural Characterisation of Steels

New Material Could Improve the Fabrication of Increasingly Smaller Electronic Devices

High-Frequency Sound Waves Used to Turn Oily Liquid Mixtures to Jelly

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The Current State of the Global Semiconductor Market

How are Graphene Batteries Made?

What Role Will The IoT Play In The Electric Vehicle Industry?

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A Platform Approach to Scientific Data Flow Management: Everything You Need to Know

Advancing Laboratory Collaboration - Connexus®

Discussing Market Expansion and Business Strategy with PerkinElmer

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