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Downloadable Application Notes on Powdercoating and Pharmaceuticals Available from Malvern

With the inclusion of new application notes relating to the powder coatings and pharmaceutical industries, Malvern Instruments has further broadened the appeal and usefulness of the Mastersizer 2000 section of the compan...

21 Dec 2005

BHP Billiton Approve Expansion Project for Brazillian Alumina Plant

BHP Billiton today announced approval of the Alumar Alumina Refinery expansion project in Brazil. The project will increase annual alumina production capacity by 2 million tonnes to 3.5 million tonnes per annum (100% bas...

19 Dec 2005

Vedanta Resources Approves $2.1billion Aluminium Smelter in India

The Board of Vedanta Resources plc (“Vedanta”) has approved a US$2.1 billion green-field 500,000 tpa aluminium smelter project together with an associated 1,215 MW captive thermal power plant in Jharsuguda, O...

19 Dec 2005

Fluid Particles Sometimes Irreversible

When a viscous fluid, such as a jar of honey, is stirred and then unstirred, the contents return to their starting points. However, according to research by a team of physicists headed by New York University's David ...

16 Dec 2005

AIXTRON Sells MOCVD System to Rainbow Opto for Blue LED Production

AIXTRON AG, a leading provider of deposition equipment to the semiconductor industry, today announced the receipt of a purchase order for a Thomas Swan 19x2" Close Coupled Showerhead (CCS) gallium nitride (GaN) epit...

15 Dec 2005

Ceramic with Plastic Properties Developed by Russian Scientists

Scientists from Obninsk in the Kaluga reg. (Russia) have developed a ceramic with unique properties, with heat conductivity and thermoplasticity several times higher than normal ceramics. This means that items made of it...

13 Dec 2005

New Material Formation Process Improves Ballistic Performance of Boron Carbide Material

A Georgia Institute of Technology researcher has developed a process that increases the hardness and improves the ballistic performance of the material used by the U.S. military for body armor. The researcher’s sta...

8 Dec 2005

Performance of PVD Coated High Speed Steel Tools and the Effect of Deposited Layers

Non-metallic deposits on the rake face of high speed steel (HSS) tools have a considerable effect on tool life. It is known that for carbide cutting tools used to machine steels, deposited layers containing aluminium, si...

5 Dec 2005

New Biomimetic Process Used to Grow Artificial Bone for Better Implants and Prosthetics

Biomimetic processes mimic the bodies own bone formation and deposition processes. The biomimetic process can be used impart bioactive characteristics onto otherwise bioinert biocompatible materials through the depositio...

5 Dec 2005

HexaTech Secures $8.9m Finance to Develop Aluminium Nitride Single Crystals for Optoelectronic Semiconductors

HexaTech, Inc., a company developing and producing single crystalline aluminum nitride (AIN) substrates for high performance electronic and optoelectronic semiconductor devices, announced today it has closed an $8.9 mill...

2 Dec 2005

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