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Hitachi Chemical to Spend $10m to Add Another Semiconductor Production Base in China

Hitachi Chemical Co., Ltd. has decided to reinforce its semiconductor-related materials business in China by adding a new production base for epoxy molding compounds primarily for logic device applications, which is s...

9 Feb 2005

AMR Technologies Awarded $2 Million Rare Earth Contract by Ferro

AMR Technologies Inc., a leading producer of performance materials announced today that it has been awarded a supply contract by Cleveland, Ohio based Ferro Corporation valued at a minimum of US$2 million over the ini...

8 Feb 2005

University of St Andrews Receives ₤60K Grant from BOC to Develop Fuel Cell Technology

The development of commercial fuel-cell powered applications could be one step closer for scientists at the University of St Andrews. A new project has been launched with the support of a £60,000 grant from The ...

2 Feb 2005

Cornell University Researchers Make Polymers from Citrus Fruits and Carbon Dioxide

A Cornell University research group has made a sweet and environmentally beneficial discovery -- how to make plastics from citrus fruits, such as oranges, and carbon dioxide. In a paper published in a recent issue of...

31 Jan 2005

Veeco Introduces New High Performance Optical Profiler for Printed Electronics Applications

Veeco Instruments today introduced a new, high-performance optical profiler to address metrology challenges in the rapidly growing printed electronics industry, which includes organic light emitting diode (OLED) displays...

21 Jan 2005

Super-Slick, Water-Repellent Surfaces That Mimic The Texture of Lotus Leaves

Ohio State University engineers are designing super-slick, water-repellent surfaces that mimic the texture of lotus leaves. The patent-pending technology could lead to self-cleaning glass, and could also reduce fricti...

20 Jan 2005

Clusters of Aluminum Atoms Found to Have Properties of Other Elements Reveal a New Form of Chemistry

A research team has discovered clusters of aluminum atoms that have chemical properties similar to single atoms of metallic and nonmetallic elements when they react with iodine. The discovery opens the door to using &#39...

17 Jan 2005

Floating Films on Liquid Mercury May Lead to Advances in Nanotechnology, Molecular Electronics

Scientists from the U.S. Department of Energy’s Brookhaven National Laboratory, Bar-Ilan University, and Harvard University have grown ultrathin films of organic chain molecules on the surface of liquid mercury and...

17 Jan 2005

Toshiba Improves Performance of RGB LED

Toshiba Corporation has announced the introduction of a driver IC that improves the performance of RGB LEDs used in mobile phones and other digital electronic products. RGB LEDs have the ability to deliver white light ...

17 Jan 2005

Kobe Steel to Stop Production of Chromate-treated Hot Dip Galvanized Steel Sheet

Kobe Steel, Ltd. has announced that it has completed development of hot dip galvanized (CG) steel sheet with no chromate layer and has begun commercial production. The new steel sheet will replace the current chromat...

From Kobe Steel 12 Jan 2005

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