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New More Environmentally Friendly PIR Foam Building System from Bayer MaterialScience

Sandwich panels comprising two metal facings and a polyisocyanurate (PIR) rigid foam core have long been used for the efficient thermal insulation of large warehouses, cold stores and other industrial and administration buildings. Developers at Bayer MaterialScience have now come up with a new, more environmentally compatible PIR foam system with significantly enhanced fire behavior that has clear benefits over established systems.

27 Apr 2010

Invisible Photovoltaics Makes Them Easier to Integrate into Buildings

Putting solar panels onto houses and offices once seemed good for the environment but a nuisance for architects. Now buildings can easily be green and beautiful, says a Spanish and German EUREKA partnership, which found ...

27 Apr 2010

DuPont Win Queen's Award for Work on Photovoltaic Metallization Paste

Her Majesty the Queen, head of state of the United Kingdom and the Commonwealth,has awarded a Queen's Award for Enterprise in the Innovation category to DuPont for the continuous development of DuPont™ Solamet® photovoltaic metallization paste, a key component in increasing the energy efficiency of solar cells.

27 Apr 2010

New Way to Characterize Wetting is Much More Accurate

Until now, the only way to quantify wetting of a material's surface has been to measure the shapes of the droplets that form on it, and this method has very limited resolution. But a team of MIT researchers has found a way to obtain images that improves the resolution of such measurements by a factor of 10,000 or more.

27 Apr 2010

Raman Microscopy Helps Scientists Design Bioactive Metal Complexes for Cancer Treatment

Scientists from Bochum have managed to accurately determine the location of metal complexes within living cancer cells using Raman microscopy. The researchers have thus gained new insights into the mechanism of action of metal-containing drugs, to which they ascribe great potential capacities, e.g. in the treatment of cancer.

27 Apr 2010