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Environmentally Friendly Coating that Protects Metals from Corrosion

A new, environmentally friendly coating that protects metals against corrosion in seawater has been developed by a team of researchers from Sheffield Hallam University. At the Society for General Microbiology meeting in ...

29 Mar 2009

Free White Paper to Tempt Conference Attendees to Aerospace Materials Conference

Reflecting the technical breadth and quality of the upcoming AeroMat Conference
and Exposition in Dayton, June 7-11, ASM International is offering a free
white paper on the "Forming of Titanium and Titanium Alloys", written
by a leading expert in the field.

From ASM International 29 Mar 2009

BNL Patents Corrosion Resistant Coating for Metals Based on Nanoparticles

Scientists at the U.S. Department
of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory have developed a method
for coating metal surfaces with an ultrathin film containing nanoparticles "particles measuring billionths of a meter" which renders the metal resistant
to corrosion and eliminates the use of toxic chromium for this purpose.

26 Mar 2009

BASF Launches Carbon Nanotube Containing Plastic

As a first, BASF
is launching a plastic containing carbon nanotubes (CNT) onto the market.

26 Mar 2009

Nanodiamonds Exhibit Properties Analogous to Macro Diamonds

Researchers have produced a strongly hydrophobic nanodiamond material that

shows bright blue fluorescence, just as macroscopic diamonds do

26 Mar 2009

Trying to Understand the Phenomena ot Superfluidity

If physicists lived in Flatland the fictional two-dimensional world
invented by Edwin Abbott in his 1884 novel, some of their quantum physics
experiments would turn out differently (not just thinner) than those in our
world.

25 Mar 2009

Siemens Increases Rebar Production Capacity at Italian Plant by 25%

As part of a two-stage modernization project completed at the end of 2008, Siemens VAI Metals Technologies increased the annual production capacity of Italian steel producer Ferriera Valsabbia to 750,000 metric tons of r...

From Primetals Technologies Limited 25 Mar 2009

Etching Boosts Perdormance of Silicon Photovoltaic Cells

Using two different types of chemical etching to create features at both the

micron and nanometer size scales, researchers at the Georgia

Institute of Technology have developed a surface treatment that boosts the

light absorption of silicon photovoltaic cells in two complementary ways.

24 Mar 2009

Leading Fibreglass Product Manufacturer Wins JEC Innovation Award

3B, a leading manufacturer of fibreglass products for the reinforcement of thermoplastics and thermosets, and its partners Fred Olsen, Ltd., Ghent University and Spiromatic, NV, are being honoured with the 2009 JEC Innov...

From 3B the Fibreglass Company 24 Mar 2009

Pyroltyic Boron Nitride Made Available to Thin Photovoltaic Cell Manufacturers

Morgan
Technical Ceramics Chemical Vapor Deposition Materials business (MTC
- CVD Materials) is to offer its Performance Pyrolytic Boron Nitride
(PBN) material for use in manufacturing of the photo absorption layer in thin
film photovoltaic (TFPV) cells.

From Morgan Advanced Materials 20 Mar 2009

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