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Siemens Awarded Contract to Supply Equipments for New Steel Mill in Ukraine

The Ukrainian steel producer Zaporizhstal Integrated Iron & Steel Works JSC (Zaporizhstal JSC) awarded Siemens VAI Metals Technologies a major contract for the supply of hot-metal desulphurization stations, LD steelm...

27 Sep 2008

Argonne Scientists Keeps Pressure on Metal-Organic Frameworks (MOF)

Scientists at U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National laboratory are putting the pressure on metal-organic frameworks (MOF). In MOF materials, metal ions can be connected by organic molecules to form scaffold...

26 Sep 2008

New Graphene Material Set to Improve Nanoelectronics and Energy Storage

A new "graphene-based" material that helps solve the structure of graphite oxide and could lead to other potential discoveries of the one-atom thick substance called graphene, which has applications in nanoelec...

26 Sep 2008

Development of New Nanotechnology Process to Make Computers Smaller, Faster, and More Efficient.

Smaller. Faster. More efficient. These are the qualities that drive science and industry to create new nanoscale structures that will help to speed up computers. Scientists at the University of California, Santa Barb...

26 Sep 2008

MIT Develop New Technology Revealing the Atomic Composition of Cargo Contents

More than 11 million cargo containers enter U.S. ports annually and that number is expected to dramatically increase in the next 20 years.

26 Sep 2008

The Global Carbon Project Release Recent Figures for the Worlds' Carbon Budget

Today the new Global Carbon Budget was launched simultaneously by Global Carbon Project co-chair Michael Raupach in France at the Paris Observatory, and in the USA at Capitol Hill, Washington by GCP Executive Director Pe...

26 Sep 2008

The SGL Group is Now the Largest Cathode Producer in the World

The SGL Group – The Carbon Company has completed the expansion of its graphitized cathode capacity in Nowy Sacz, Poland. With a total cathode capacity approximately of 60,000 tons p.a., the Company is now the large...

From SGL CARBON SE 26 Sep 2008

MIT Center for Materials Science and Engineering Receives Grant for Educational Outreach Program

Amid an increasingly challenging federal funding environment, MIT's Center for Materials Science and Engineering (CMSE) has won a six-year, $19.2 million National Science Foundation grant that will support research, ...

25 Sep 2008

Report Shows Advanced Structural Ceramics Market to Reach $3.7 Billion

According to a new technical market research report, TECHNICAL AND ADVANCED STRUCTURAL CERAMICS (AVM011C) from BCC Research, the North American market for advanced structural ceramics was valued at $2.7 billion in 2007. ...

24 Sep 2008

Julius Springer Prize Goes to Pioneering Work on Properties of Nanoscale Carbon Materials

This year's Julius Springer Prize for Applied Physics will be awarded to Phaedon Avouris and Tony Heinz for their pioneering work on the electrical and optical properties of nanoscale carbon materials including carbo...

From Springer - Science and Technology Publishers 23 Sep 2008

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