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Niobium-Based Superconducting Devices Could Lead to Smaller, More Efficient Linear Colliders

“How much energy you can put into a particle per meter corresponds directly to how big the machine is,” says Steven Sibener, the Carl William Eisendrath Professor in Chemistry and the James Franck Institute at UChicago. This means that future accelerators must either grow to inconceivable sizes, at great costs, or they must somehow pump far more energy into each particle per meter of acceleration than modern technology will allow.

9 Feb 2010

World's Fastest Graphene Transistor Demostrated by IBM

In a just-published paper in the magazine Science, IBM (NYSE: IBM) researchers demonstrated a radio-frequency graphene transistor with the highest cut-off frequency achieved so far for any graphene device - 100 billion c...

9 Feb 2010

ThyssenKrupp Steel Jointly Fund Center for Electrochemical Sciences

ThyssenKrupp Steel Europe AG and the state of North Rhine-Westphalia are jointly funding the Center for Electrochemical Sciences (CES) at Ruhr University Bochum. The new center, which is also cooperating with the Max Pla...

9 Feb 2010

New Range of Plastic Containers for Petroleum Products Available from RPC

RPC Montpont has launched a new range of 5 litre plastic containers, including a U.N. approved co-ex variant ideal for volatile petroleum products.

9 Feb 2010

BASF Introduce New Pigment for Creating Orange to Red Shades

Paliocrom Brilliant Orange L 2850 is the first of a new generation of effect pigments from BASF. Exceptional brilliance and ultra-high chroma enable the creation of novel designs in the orange to red shade area. This...

From BASF Corporation 9 Feb 2010

New Composite Material Could Revolutionise Car Design and Manufacture

Scientists develop new composite material that could revolutionise car design and manufacturing.

8 Feb 2010

Grpahene-Based Lighting OLED Products that are Fully Recyclable

With the use of the new super material graphene, Swedish and American researchers have succeeded in producing a new type of lighting component. It is inexpensive to produce and can be fully recycled. The invention, w...

8 Feb 2010

Near-Field Microscope that can Measure Optical Properties with a Spatial Resolution

Scientists of the research group of Prof. Dr. Alfred Meixner and Dr. Dai Zhang from the Institute of Physical and Theoretical Chemistry at the University of Tübingen have developed a near-field microscope that can measure the optical properties of e. g. semiconductor thin films with a spatial resolution and sensitivity long thought unachievable due to fundamental physical laws (diffraction limit).

8 Feb 2010

Hiden Introduce Mass Spectrometer for Analysis of Fast Transient Gas Events

Hiden Analytical introduce their Transient MS system specifically designed for the analysis of fast transient gas events at pressures near atmosphere. The compact benchtop system is founded on the Hiden HPR-20 QIC series gas analysers and features a purpose-designed fast response capillary inlet and the HAL/3F PIC mass spectrometer with pulse ion counting detector.

From Hiden Analytical 8 Feb 2010

Novel Strategy for Engineering Semiconductors Could Make Hydrogen Fuel More Viable

A novel strategy for engineering semiconductor materials can boost the performance of water-splitting solar cells for hydrogen production, according to a new study by researchers at the University of California, Santa Cruz.

8 Feb 2010

New Method for Controlling Magnets Could Improve Storage Capacity of Future Hard Drives

Researchers in Chicago and London have developed a method for controlling the properties of magnets that could be used to improve the storage capacity of next-generation computer hard drives.

8 Feb 2010

Revolutionary Lighting Technology Based on Nanofibers Developed by RTI

RTI International has developed a revolutionary lighting technology that is more energy efficient than the common incandescent light bulb and does not contain mercury, making it environmentally safer than the compact fluorescent light (CFL) bulb.

8 Feb 2010

New Microprobe for Southeastern North Carolina Regional Microanalytical and Imaging Center

The installation of an advanced imaging tool, a JEOL Electron Probe Microanalyzer (EPMA), will expand research and educational opportunities for students, faculty, and industry in southeastern North Carolina. In January, JEOL completed the installation of its new generation of EPMA, also known as a microprobe, at the Southeastern North Carolina Regional Microanalytical and Imaging Center.

8 Feb 2010

Alcoa Calls on Businesses to Develop Sustainable Strategies

Alcoa (NYSE:AA) and a diverse group representing 29 leading global companies across 14 industries today called on businesses around the world to develop strategies that would enable a global population of some 9 billion people to live well within the resources of the planet by 2050.

From Alcoa - Aluminum Company of America 8 Feb 2010

Air Products Launches Take Over Bid for Airgas

Air Products (NYSE: APD) announced that it has made an offer to acquire Airgas, Inc. (NYSE: ARG) for $60.00 per share in cash. The offer was made in a letter to Airgas' Board of Directors yesterday after the CEOs of ...

From Air Products PLC 8 Feb 2010