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Carbon Nanotube Coating Helps Protect Ocean Vessels and Reduces Drag

The Norwegian company Advanced Marine Coatings based in Gamle Fredrikstad specializes in the development of environmentally compatible, heavy-duty anti-corrosion coatings for sea-going vessels. The "Green Ocean Coat...

24 Nov 2009

Next Generation Biofuel Production Technology Wins Energy Institute Award

The Fischer-Tropsch (FT) microchannel reactor combined with a new highly active FT catalyst developed by the Oxford Catalysts Group and designed to enable the distributed production of next generation biofuels was named ...

24 Nov 2009

Freiburg Materials Research Center Celebrates 20th Anniversary

The Freiburg Materials Research Center (FMF) will celebrate the 20th anniversary of its founding in 2010. The center will commemorate the occasion by co-organizing three symposia in February, March, and June. The festivi...

24 Nov 2009

Using Piezoelectrics to Generate Electricity from Moving Vehicles

A group of researchers at the City College of New York is developing a new way to generate power for planes and automobiles based on materials known as piezoelectrics, which convert the kinetic energy of motion into elec...

24 Nov 2009

Continued Downward Pressure on Steel Prices

Purchasing activity remains subdued in the Turkish market. Downward pressure has continued to be exerted on negotiated finished steel prices. Market participants are presently trying to maintain manageable inventory leve...

24 Nov 2009

Film on Fusion Energy Wins Award

The latest film made by the European fusion community, entitled "Energy of the future - Fusion 2100", won the 2009 EuroPAWS MIDAS Prize for New Media. The prize recognises the best European new media production...

24 Nov 2009

Safe and Repeatable Method for Preparing Elemental Analysis Samples

The Oxygen Flask Combustion Unit (OFCU-1) from Exeter Analytical provides a safe and repeatable method for preparing samples for elemental analysis of Chlorine, Bromine, Iodine, Sulphur, Phosphorus and a number of metals using the Schöniger flask method.

24 Nov 2009

Discounts Continue for A2 Technologies FTIR Spectrometers

A2 Technologies has announced that the popular Educational Institution Pricing Program on its ML FTIR spectrometer system will continue through to March 31, 2010. This special pricing program allows academic institutions to purchase the ML FTIR spectrometer, with integrated single reflection diamond ATR sampling system.

24 Nov 2009

Eliminate the Costs of Liquid Nitrogen and Dry Ice Consumables

The FTS Multi-Cool from SP Industries Inc. is a mechanically refrigerated bench top bath that eliminates the need for costly consumables such as liquid nitrogen and dry ice.

24 Nov 2009

Zircon Uncovers Secrets of the Earth's Mantle

Zircon is a mineral that exists in nature from colourless to reddish-brown, yellow, green or blue. Zircon may also be transparent making its visual appearance similar to diamond. Zircon is a common accessory mineral in many rocks of the continental crust. Their chemical and physical durability allow this mineral to survive even under the pressure and temperature conditions of the Earth’s upper mantle. These characteristics challenged a group of scientists to take a closer look on zircons from basaltic fields in north-eastern Bavaria.

24 Nov 2009

Manufacturing Metal Components with Intelligence inside Them

Whether it's CD packaging, containers or identification cards: RFID tags (Radio Frequency Identification) are increasingly finding their way into everyday life. They make it possible to label objects or goods and ide...

24 Nov 2009

Large Hadron Collider Back in Operation Looking for New States of Matter

Particle beams are once again zooming around the world’s most powerful particle accelerator, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), at the CERN laboratory near Geneva, Switzerland, where a team of University of Massachusetts Amherst physicists run experiments to collect data on fundamental atomic particles. The work could reveal new states of matter and unveil the secrets of dark matter.

24 Nov 2009

Physicists Detect First Neutrino Events

Physicists from the Japanese-led multi-national T2K neutrino collaboration announced today that over the weekend they detected the first neutrino events generated by their newly built neutrino beam at the J-PARC accelerator laboratory in Tokai, Japan.

24 Nov 2009

Arkema Updates DMSO Solvents Website

Arkema has updated its DMSO (dimethyl sulfoxide) website, specifically designed for users of solvents classified as hazardous who wish to replace them in their formulations with DMSO, a solvent which is not classified as...

24 Nov 2009

Carl Zeiss Starts Application Development for Correlative Microscopy in Materials Analysis

Together with several pilot customers, Carl Zeiss has started application development for correlative microscopy in materials analysis and performed the initial installations of the platform Shuttle+Find. The focus of at...

24 Nov 2009