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Powder Coating Technolgy Wins PPG R+D Award

Duranar powder coatings by PPG Industries (NYSE:PPG) have earned a 2009 R&D 100 Award. The honor recognizes the 100 most technologically significant products introduced in the past year as selected by an independent ...

From PPG Industries Inc. 12 Nov 2009

Rio Tinto Form Mining Technology Development Alliance

Rio Tinto and CODELCO have entered into the "Río de Cobre" (River of Copper) technology alliance agreement. The new alliance allows both companies to jointly pursue next generation copper mining and proces...

12 Nov 2009

BASF Offers a New Biodegradable Plastic

BASF is now offering a new biodegradable plastic. It goes by the name Ecovio® FS and it has joined the existing Ecovio product line. BASF has optimized this new plastic for two specific applications: for coating paper and for manufacturing so-called shrink films, which serve to easily wrap packaged goods

From BASF Corporation 12 Nov 2009

OSRAM LEDs Used in Micro Projectors that can be Attached to Mobile Phones

The diversified technology company 3M is including OSRAM Opto Semiconductors’ LEDs in its new micro projectors, which can be connected to mobile phones and cameras. The small, bright, energy-saving diodes are the key to developing micro projectors, which could not be implemented with other light sources.

From Osram Opto Semiconductors GmbH 12 Nov 2009

Utilize the Unexpected Optical Properties of the Metallic Nanostructures

Metals are opaque: they reflect light almost completely. For that reason they are utilized as mirrors; as films deposited onto a glassyou find them in any bathroom. If the metal film is very thin, the mirror is semitrans...

12 Nov 2009

New Understanding of Ionic Liquids

Researchers at Texas Tech University, Queen's University in Belfast, Ireland, the University of Rome and the National Research Council in Italy recently made a discovery about the non-uniform chemical compositions of...

12 Nov 2009

New Nano Safety Centre to Study Toxicity of Nanparticles

Nanomaterials, which are a thousand times smaller than the width of a human hair, have been developed to perform a variety of roles, including stain resistance in clothes, preservatives in food and cancer treatment in dr...

12 Nov 2009

Catalyst Converts Metane to Methanol Creating More Viable Fuel

It is currently estimated that natural gas resources will be exhausted in 130 years; however, those reserves where extraction is cost-effective will only flow for another 60 years or so. Scientists at the Max Planck Inst...

12 Nov 2009

Silicon Nanowires Prove Sturdy Enough to Work in Nanoelectronics and Other Applications

Silicon nanowires are attracting significant attention from the electronics industry due to the drive for ever-smaller electronic devices, from cell phones to computers. The operation of these future devices, and a wide array of additional applications, will depend on the mechanical properties of these nanowires.

12 Nov 2009

Study Shows How Nanoparticles Behave in Sewage Systems

In an advance that could help ease health and environmental concerns about the emerging nanotechnology industry, scientists are reporting development of technology for changing the behavior of nanoparticles in municipal sewage treatment plants - their main gateway into the environment.

12 Nov 2009

STOBA, The First Materials to Improve the Safety of Li-Ion Batteries

ITRI (Industrial Technology Research Institute), Taiwan's largest and one of the world's leading high-tech research and development institutions, introduces STOBA (self-terminated oligomers with hyper-branched architecture), the first material technology to enhance the safety of lithium-ion (Li-ion) batteries.

10 Nov 2009

Why Some Transistors Made from Organic Crystals Don't Perform Well

Electronic devices can't work well unless all of the transistors, or switches, within them allow electrical current to flow easily when they are turned on. A team of engineers has determined why some transistors made of organic crystals don't perform well, yielding ideas about how to make them work better.

10 Nov 2009