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BE Group Win 100 Million SEK Reinforcing Steel Supply Contract

BE Group Sverige AB (STO:BEGR) has received the challenging contract to deliver approximately 15,000 tons of reinforcing steel to Peab for the construction of Arenastaden in Solna. The order value for BE Group is estimat...

22 Nov 2009

Market Reports on the German Steel Industry Now Available through Research and Markets

Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/70f2e8/analyzing_germany) has announced the addition of the "Analyzing Germany's Steel Industry" report to their offering. The steel industry has gone ...

22 Nov 2009

China Holdings Acquisition Corp to Combne Forces with Jinjiang Hengda Ceramics

China Holdings Acquisition Corp. (AMEX:HOL) (the "Company" or "CHAC"), a special purpose acquisition company, today announced its stockholders approved the Company's previously announced proposed ...

22 Nov 2009

Dotmar Engineering Plastics Opens Tasmanian Distribution Centre

In the first week of November, Dotmar Engineering Plastics officially opened a Tasmanian distribution centre promising greater levels of service and support to customers. State manager, Malcolm Dennis is confident th...

From Dotmar EPP Pty Ltd 22 Nov 2009

Carbon Nanotube-Based Supercapacitors All Fast Charging of Electronic Devices

Most people would like to be able to charge their cell phones and other personal electronics quickly and not too often. A recent discovery made by UC San Diego engineers could lead to carbon nanotube-based supercapacitors that could do just this.

22 Nov 2009

NIEHS Funds Research into Health and Safety Aspects of Nanoparticles

The National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS), part of the National Institutes of Health, is increasing its investment in understanding the potential health, safety and environmental issues related to t...

22 Nov 2009

Graphene-Like Porous Polymer with Atomic Accuracy

Two-dimensional carbon layers, so-called graphenes, are regarded as a possible substitute for silicon in the semiconductor industry. The electronic properties of these layers can be varied by "building in" specific arrays of holes in their structure.

22 Nov 2009

Vibration in Nanostructures Nay Have Practical Uses in Biological Sensing

Vibrations in nanostructures offer applications in molecular-scale biological sensing and ultrasensitive mass detection. To approach single-atom sensing, it is necessary to reduce the dimensions of the structures to the nanometer scale while preserving long-lived vibrations.

22 Nov 2009

High Resolution Photoresist Film Suited to 20nm Semiconductors

Toshiba Corporation today announced that it has developed a high resolution photoresist (photo-sensitive film) essential for future application of EUV (extreme ultraviolet) lithography in semiconductor fabrication, and proved its viability with the world's first 20nm-scale generation process technology.

22 Nov 2009

Brookhaven Researcher Wins Award for Research into the Chemistry of Nanostructures

Stanislaus S. Wong, a scientist with a joint appointment at the U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory and Stony Brook University, has won the Buck-Whitney Award from the American Chemical Society (ACS) Eastern New York Section. The award recognizes excellent original contributions to pure and applied chemistry.

22 Nov 2009

Successful Printing of Nanoparticle Copper Inks onto Commercial Paper

Applied Nanotech Holdings, Inc. (OTCBB: APNT) announced that it has successfully inkjet printed its nanoparticle copper inks onto commercially available paper substrates forming highly conductive patterns for electronic ...

20 Nov 2009

Researcher Reviews Challenges for Nanoscale Devices for Future Electronics

New nanoscale materials and devices are required to replace the silicon transistor that's at the heart of today's semiconductors, but to build these new devices, researchers will have to be able to measure the thickness - if that's the right word - of layers consisting of only a few atoms, according to a UT Dallas researcher.

20 Nov 2009

Universal Display Corp Strengthens Collaboration to Create Flexible PHOLED Displays

Universal Display Corporation (NASDAQ:PANL), an innovator behind today's and tomorrow's displays and lighting through its UniversalPHOLED phosphorescent OLED technology, and the Flexible Display Center (FDC) at A...

20 Nov 2009

CRAIC Microspectrometer Control and Spectral Analysis Software Compatible with Windows 7

CRAIC Technologies, the leading innovator of UV-visible-NIR microspectroscopy solutions for science and industry, announced Windows™ 7 compatibility of its MINERVA microspectrometer control and spectral analysis software.

From CRAIC Technologies 19 Nov 2009

New Multi-Axis Stages for Super-Resolution Microscopy from PI

PI (Physik Instrumente) L.P. -- the inventor of Piezo-Z focusing systems—has added two new multi-axis stages for super-resolution microscopy applications, providing highly accurate motion with sub-nanometer resolution over travel ranges of 200 µm in XY and XYZ.

From PI (Physik Instrumente) LP 19 Nov 2009