For Professor Chad Mirkin, good things come in small packages - specifically one billionth of a meter in size. Yet, as director of Northwestern University's International Institute for Nanotechnology, the impact of Mirkin's work is anything but small. A prolific inventor and entrepreneur, his innovations have the potential to transform the future of medical diagnostics and patient point-of-care and to ignite change across many industries from semi-conductors to healthcare.
Researchers in New Mexico are reporting the surprise discovery that common table salt - so brittle that it crushes easily between a thumb and forefinger - becomes a super plastic in the weird environs of the nanoworld.
University of Chicago researchers recently showed that dry granular materials such as sands, seeds and grains have properties similar to liquid, forming water-like droplets when poured from a given source.
Outwater Plastics Industries, Inc. / Architectural Products by Outwater, LLC/ULC introduces its new line of environmentally friendly natural Rolled Cork, ideal for Bulletin Board or Wall Facing Applications.
The key indicators that underscore the continued importance and relevancy of the plastics industry’s triennial trade show to the global plastics marketplace are the 17,857 unique companies from 101 countries walking the floor at NPE2009, reports show producer SPI: The Plastics Industry Trade Association.
Underscoring its focus on customer collaboration and innovation, SABIC Innovative Plastics has helped a key customer – Karbon Kinetics Ltd. (KKL) – break away from the pack and ride to success with a unique new bicycle that uses high-value Verton* RV00CE specialty compound. KKL’s new Gocycle® electric bicycle – on display here at NPE 2009 in SABIC booth W123011 – is the lightest production electric bicycle in the world.
Metabolix, Inc. (NASDAQ: MBLX) today announced that Newell Rubbermaid, a global marketer of consumer and commercial products whose brands include Rubbermaid(R), Calphalon(R), and Paper Mate(R), is the customer that will ...
Today ExxonMobil took another important step in meeting the world’s growing energy needs by announcing the sponsorship of an all-electric car-sharing and rental program, called AltCar, at the Maryland Science Cente...
Today at NPE 2009, SABIC Innovative Plastics introduced a new, high-tech shield to enhance the protection of transit operators in Toronto. This new high-value operator protection is made of Lexan* sheet and coated with the Exatec* E900 advanced plasma technology at Exatec’s facility in Wixom, Mich.
An everyday item used in the kitchen can still be beautiful. At NPE 2009, Milliken Chemical, a division of Milliken & Company, is showcasing a cutlery tray from Italian manufacturer Guzzini that offers stunning design as well as practical functionality and environmental responsibility – thanks to the use of polypropylene (PP) clarified with Millad® NX8000 agent.
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