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Shape Memory Polymers to be Used for Morphing Wing Skins on UAVs

ADA Technologies, Inc. received a $100,000 contract from the United States Air Force to conduct early stage research on a new method of creating a wing skin for use on morphing unmanned air vehicles (UAVs). Much like...

3 Feb 2010

Nanotope's Bioactive Nanofiber System Promotes New Cartilage Growth

Arrowhead Research Corporation (NASDAQ:ARWR) today announced publication in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) of a study using Nanotope's lead compound for cartilage regeneration. The study's...

3 Feb 2010

Moving Tonnes of Scientific Equipment by the Nanometer

Shifting scientific equipment weighing tonnes to within microns or millionths of a metre is difficult. But at the Australian Synchrotron, where scientists study matter by using the radiation beams created by "wobbli...

3 Feb 2010

Linkam Microscope Heating Stage to Feature in BBC Documentary

Linkam users, Kathy Groves and her team at Leatherhead Food Research have been filming with the BBC as part of a documentary to be aired in March. The documentary discusses the role of diet in evolution. Along with many recent TV documentaries, it is comparing the diets of previous generations with the modern day's human diet.

From Linkam Scientific Instruments 2 Feb 2010

Asian Stainless Steel Prices Expected to Rise

Our Asian stainless steel forecasts are little changed from December 2009. An anticipated hike in alloy surcharges for February 2010 will, almost certainly, result in a significant hike in selling figures for all austeni...

2 Feb 2010

Plastic Paint Tin Alternative Wins Award for LINPAC

LINPAC Viscount, the division of LINPAC Group serving the Asia Pacific region, has received the ‘Dulux Australia Supplier Excellence Award’ in the much sought-after DuluxGroup Supplier of the Year Awards 2009. The win follows the division’s introduction of its tinplate-replacement plastic Nupail paint container – incorporating innovative Paint Skinning Adhesion Technology.

2 Feb 2010

Gas to Liquid Process to Produce Fuels from Resources that Would Otherwise be Wasted

The gas to liquids (GTL) process offers a promising option for producing valuable liquid fuels from gas resources that would otherwise be wasted. These include associated gas (the gas produced along with oil, which is no...

2 Feb 2010

Aerospace Parts Manufacturer Acquired by Investment Group

Odyssey Investment Partners, LLC today announced that it has acquired Wencor Group, LLC ("Wencor"), a leading distributor of aftermarket parts and the world's second-largest independent provider of Parts Ma...

2 Feb 2010

Bayer MaterialScience Acquire Worldwide Marketing Rights for DURFLEX Railway Track Superstructure Systems

Bayer MaterialScience AG has acquired the worldwide marketing and usage rights for the innovative DURFLEX track superstructure system from Hyperion Verwaltung GmbH, Frankfurt/Main, Germany. The two companies have signed ...

2 Feb 2010

Vertical Nanowires Could be Used to Step from Micro to Nanoelectronics

Currently, researchers are working hard to find new approaches to overcome the physical limits on downscaling and integration of microchips. One such concept is to fabricate a completely new transistor architecture in three-dimensions. In this concept, instead of arranging them flat on the substrate the silicon transistors are turned by 90 degrees so that they stick out of the chip substrate like tiny columns. In this way, numerous vertical transistors could be built on the area normally occupied by only one planar transistor. This would finally be the step from micro to nanoelectronics.

2 Feb 2010

ThyssenKrupp Sell Insulated Door Plant

ThyssenKrupp Bausysteme GmbH has sold its manufacturing plant for insulated doors in Pansdorf, Schleswig-Holstein, effective February 1, 2010. The plant mainly produces hinged and sliding doors for cold and freezer rooms...

2 Feb 2010

Treating Nanoparticles to Improve the Efficiency of Organic Solar Cells

Scientists at the Department of Microsystems Engineering (IMTEK) and the Freiburg Materials Research Center (FMF) have succeeded in developing a method for treating the surface of nanoparticles which greatly improves the...

2 Feb 2010

New Generation High Performance Actuators Well Under Development

The development of a new generation of actuators has undergone tremendous progress. Cheaper piezo actuators resisting humidity, having fewer cracks and an extended lifetime may well become reality thanks to a close cooperation across borders between researchers, manufacturers and end-users.

2 Feb 2010

VDMA to Focus on Photovoltaics Production Equipment

VDMA's Photovoltaic Equipment Forum has appointed a steering committee consisting of well-known industry representatives at the beginning of this year. The steering committee will focus on further concentrating the interests of VDMA members involved in photovoltaics production equipment.

2 Feb 2010

OSRAM Creates New Web Site Dedicated to LED Lighting

The new LED Light Site from OSRAM Opto Semiconductors is the leading information source on all things LED. On the online platform, customers can find news, technical information, support and tools in connection with LED lighting solutions in the fields of architectural, shop, outdoor and indoor lighting.

From Osram Opto Semiconductors GmbH 2 Feb 2010