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Scientists Need to Focus on Developing More Resilient and Efficient Advanced Catalysts

There is an acute need for technological improvements in the advanced catalysts industry as robust and long-lasting catalysts are the need of the hour. By preventing catalyst deactivation, the new breed of catalysts can ...

27 Sep 2005

New Efficient and Eco-Friendly Power Plants

Power plants of the future may be designed to provide electricity solely for an individual housing estate, village, factory or college. That’s the prediction of University of Southampton engineer Dr Tom Markvart. ...

27 Sep 2005

Purdue Benchmarking Database and Process will Help Industry Design Parts-Search Systems

Researchers at Purdue University who developed the first system capable of searching a company's catalog of three-dimensional parts created with computer-aided design software are now providing a method to evaluate h...

27 Sep 2005

Researchers Demonstrate Room-Temperature Operation of a Heterojunction Bipolar Transistor Laser

Researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign have demonstrated the room-temperature operation of a heterojunction bipolar transistor laser, moving it an important step closer to commercialization. The sc...

27 Sep 2005

Simple Plastic Shield Could Prevent Card Skimming ATM Fraud

Two design engineers at the University of Warwick have devised a simple 250 UK pounds sterling plastic shield that could play a significant role in eliminating the card skimming cash machine fraud that costs banks tens o...

27 Sep 2005

BP Confirms Plans for Second Zhuhai PTA Plant

BP is planning a second world-scale PTA (purified terephthalic acid) plant at their BP Zhuhai Chemical Company Limited (BP Zhuhai) site in Guangdong Province, China. BP Zhuhai, a joint venture between BP (85 per cent...

27 Sep 2005

Oversupply, Lower Prices Impacting LCD Equipment Market

While the worldwide market for array processing equipment for TFT-LCDs grew 34% to reach $4.2 billion in 2004, a combination of several factors will drop the growth rate to only 3% in 2005, according to the report LCD Pr...

27 Sep 2005

BASF Develops New Printed Electronics Technology with Bell Labs

BASF Future Business GmbH, Ludwigshafen, is jointly developing leading edge printed electronics technology based on organic semiconductors that can be used in a broad variety of everyday applications. BASF entered into t...

27 Sep 2005

Launch of AZojomo - AZo Journal Of Materials Online

In a radical departure from the traditional scientific publishing model, Azojomo [https://www.azom.com/azojomo.asp] will reward authors and peer reviewers for their work by paying a share of advertising revenue attributa...

27 Sep 2005

Sewerage Sludge - A New Raw Material for Cement Production?

Korean ceramics researchers have recently investigated the potential for using sewerage sludge in cement production. Their research looks at the possibility of effective reutilization of sewage sludge into cement kiln pr...

27 Sep 2005

Lithium Battery Cathodes Being Made Using Novel Sol-Gel Method

Lithium batteries increasingly permeate our lives in all manner of electrical devices. Researchers from Thailand report on a study that investigates the use of the sol-gel method to produce battery cathodes from a new ma...

27 Sep 2005

Toshiba Develops Dual-Layer HD DVD-R Discs

Toshiba Corporation has reconfirmed the flexibility and expandability of the HD DVD format with the announcement of a 30GB dual-layer HD DVD-R (recordable) disc that extends the capacity for a write-once next generation ...

26 Sep 2005

Composites Advance Table Tennis

Cornilleau and Michelin have combined their know-how and capacity for innovation to develop the world’s first range of composite table tennis rackets designed predominantly for leisure use. The partnership between Co...

26 Sep 2005

Angang Group Awards Major Contract to LOI

Angang Group International Trade Co. of China has awarded LOI Thermprocess a contract to supply two heat treatment plants for heavy-gauge steel plate. The contract covers two roller hearth furnaces designed for differ...

26 Sep 2005

Degussa Acquires All the Know-How and Patents of Ticona GmbH in the Field of Polyaryl Ether Ketones

In a move to further consolidate its expertise in the area of high-temperature polymers, Degussa AG, Dusseldorf, is acquiring all the know-how and patents of Ticona GmbH, Kelsterbach, in the field of polyaryl ether keton...

26 Sep 2005