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Philips Announces EUR 40 Million Investment in Innovative LCD Backlighting Technology

Royal Philips Electronics today announced to invest EUR 40 million in LCD backlighting technology that is used to improve LCD picture quality of widescreen televisions while at the same time energy consumption will be lo...

31 May 2005

Uhde Wins Contract for Coke Plant expansion in South Korea

The POSCO group of Seoul, South Korea, the world's fifth biggest steel producer, has commissioned Uhde GmbH of Dortmund, Germany, to build a new coke oven battery for expansion of their coke production. At the same t...

31 May 2005

Rensselaer Researchers Detail Potential for Smart Lighting in Science

“Smart” solid-state light sources now being developed not only have the potential to provide significant energy savings, but also offer new opportunities for applications that go well beyond the lighting prov...

31 May 2005

Novel and Easy Technique to Make Thin, Crystal-Like Materials for Electronic Devices

Materials scientists at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, have devised a novel and easy technique to make thin, crystal-like materials for electronic devices. The technique could supplement today's tedious...

31 May 2005

On the Way to the Perfect Glass

Researchers from the United Kingdom, France and the DUBBLE beamline at the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility (ESRF) have made a step forward in research on glass. They monitored the change in the structure of zeoli...

31 May 2005

Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Without a Magnet

A group of German researchers have shown that a powerful chemical analysis technique, Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) spectroscopy, could lead to a highly sensitive way to measure the magnetic fields around living creat...

31 May 2005

Polymer Grid Technology a Boon for Bridges

When the long-awaited Highway 151 bypass around Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, opens later this year, vehicles traveling northbound will cross DeNeveu Creek on a bridge like no other in the country. Externally, the bridge l...

30 May 2005

Air Products Forms Joint Venture with Leading Chinese Chemicals Company

Air Products announced today that it has formed a joint venture named Air Products Shanfeng with a leading Chinese chemicals supplier, Changzhou Shangfeng Chemical Industry Co. Ltd. (CZSF), to produce triethylenediamine ...

30 May 2005

Argonne to Receive $3 Million for Basic Research on Fuel Cell Catalysts

Argonne National Laboratory will receive $3 million over three years for basic science studies that may lead to improved catalysts for hydrogen fuel cells. The funding, from the U.S. Department of Energy's Office...

30 May 2005

Ashland Distribution Expands Composites Product Line

An agreement that will expand Ashland Distribution’s product offering has been reached with SP of Magog, Quebec effective May 19, 2005. Ashland Distribution, a division of Ashland Inc., was granted North American d...

30 May 2005

Scientists Detect Common Intermediates in Flames

Understanding fire is one of the oldest challenges in chemistry. Even after 150 years of flame chemistry research, scientists are making new findings. An international research consortium, including CAS researchers, disc...

30 May 2005

Timken to Increase Specialty Steel Prices

Timken Latrobe Steel, a subsidiary of The Timken Company, announced it would increase prices by 5 to 10 percent on all remelted aerospace alloys, air melt stainless steel and tool steel grades. The price change will be e...

From The Timken Co. 30 May 2005

Breakthrough in Geomechanics Research

A research breakthrough by a University of Nottingham professor that will have important implications for engineering design involving rolling and sliding contact such as road railway foundations has been unveiled in a p...

30 May 2005

University of Hertfordshire Designs Cost Effective Car Safety Features

Engineers at the University of Hertfordshire have found a way to comply with car safety regulations almost 10 times faster than traditional methods. About 9,000 pedestrian and cyclists die every year on roads in the E...

30 May 2005

Unique Device Based on Silicon Light-Emitting Diodes to Treat Burns

A unique device based on silicon light-emitting diodes was developed by the St. Petersburg physicists - specialists of the Ioffe Physico-Technical Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, and the St. Petersburg State Elec...

30 May 2005