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Goodfellow Offer Ultra High Purity Precious Metals for Research and Product Design

Goodfellow, a leading supplier of metals and materials for science and industry, offers ultra-high-purity precious metals in small quantities for research and product design. Gold, silver and the platinum group of metals...

From Goodfellow Corporation 25 Feb 2010

Bemis purchase of Alcan Packaging Business Approved by Courts

Bemis Company, Inc. (NYSE: BMS), today announced that the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia has signed an order, approving Bemis' acquisition of the Food Americas operations of Alcan Packaging, a busin...

From Amcor PLC 25 Feb 2010

Particulate System Acquire Global Distribution Rights for HEL Subsieve AutoSizers

Particulate Systems, a brand of Micromeritics Instrument Corporation, has been granted exclusive global distribution of the H.E.L. Limited Subsieve AutoSizer starting February 2010.

From Micromeritics Instrument Corporation 25 Feb 2010

Two Part Epoxy Suited to Potting, Coating and Sealing Electronic Assemblies

Master Bond EP21FL is a two part epoxy resin system that features low to moderate viscosity. It is well suited for potting, coating and sealing electronic assemblies and excels at bonding dissimilar substrates with different coefficients of expansion.

From Master Bond Inc. 25 Feb 2010

Neutrons to Play a Major Role in Fighting HIV, Slowing Global Warming and Improving Manufacturing

Subatomic particles called neutrons are poised to play a big role in fighting HIV, slowing global warming, and improving manufacturing processes. The reason: They are the focus of a process called neutron scattering that...

24 Feb 2010

560 Page Digital Flash Catalog on Piezo Technology and Nanopositioning Products by PI

PI (Physik Instrumente) has published a digital flash catalog on Piezo Technology and Nanopositioning Products. The 560 page digital publication also contains extensive tutorials on piezo motion technology, the fundamentals of nanopositioning, micropositioning and nanometrology.

From PI (Physik Instrumente) LP 24 Feb 2010

Researchers Document Quantum Level Relationship between Electrons, Magnestism and Superconductivity

Now physicists at Brown University have documented for the first time a quantum-level phenomenon that occurs to electrons subjected to magnetism in a superconducting material.

24 Feb 2010

Newly Developed Nanocrystalline Materials Exhibit Surprising Activity

Johns Hopkins researchers have discovered that, under the right conditions, newly developed nanocrystalline materials exhibit surprising activity in the tiny spaces between the geometric clusters of atoms called nanocrystals from which they are made.

24 Feb 2010

Six More Companies Join Design for E-Beam Initiative

The eBeam Initiative, a forum dedicated to the education and promotion of a new design-to-manufacturing approach known as design for e-beam (DFEB), today announced that six additional companies spanning the entire semico...

24 Feb 2010

Zirconia and Carbon Nanotube Prosthesis Could Last up to 150 Years

Current body protheses do not last more than 10-15 years. After this time, the operation has to be repeated in order to change prothesis. It is usually problematic as, in general, it is elderly people that use the proced...

24 Feb 2010

Automated Materials Analysis with the SPECTROLAB Spark Spectrometer

Automation of analytical processes in the metal industry is highly complex and deals with vastly different areas such as sample preparation, sample introduction, laboratory aeration and ventilation, various control syste...

From SPECTRO Analytical Instruments GmbH 24 Feb 2010

Symposium to Reveal Breakthroughs in Low-Power Smaller Silicon Devices

A symposium which will reveal new methods for making future low-power, lighter, smarter and more economical computers and mobile phones will take place at the University of Southampton next week and has attracted almost ...

24 Feb 2010

Polymer Stabilized Nanoparticles Reduce Potential Health Impacts

Chemists at the University of Helsinki have managed to manufacture new polymer-stabilised silver nanoparticles. The result is significant because the antimicrobial characteristics of silver are used in textiles, floor co...

24 Feb 2010

New Class of Molecules Could Lead to All-Optical Signal Processing

A class of molecules whose size, structure and chemical composition have been optimized for photonic use could provide the demanding combination of properties needed to serve as the foundation for low-power, high-speed all-optical signal processing.

24 Feb 2010

Imagine Computer Memory A Million Times Faster than What You are Used To

A radical new kind of computer memory will be a million times faster than existing hard-drives, a leading expert in the field of nanotechnology announced today in Sydney. It will use nanotechnology to manipulate data ...

23 Feb 2010