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LyondellBasell Announce Closure of Low Density Polyethylene (LDPE) Plant

LyondellBasell Industries announced today that it will close the low density polyethylene (LDPE) plant located at its Carrington, U.K., site by the end of this year.“Taking into account the current market environme...

16 Sep 2009

Australian Scientists Focus Research on Energy-Efficient Technologies Aluminium Industry

Scientists from CSIRO and five Universities will research sustainable energy-efficient technologies for the Australasian aluminium industry through a collaboration launched today. Primary production of aluminium is hi...

16 Sep 2009

Nanomanufacturing Producer Awarded by EPA for Green Power Leadership

Applied Materials, Inc., the global leader in Nanomanufacturing Technology™ solutions with a broad portfolio of innovative equipment, service and software products for the fabrication of semiconductor chips, flat p...

16 Sep 2009

NSF to Invest in Material Developement for Sustainable Living

A new grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) will support 30 graduate students working in the Cornell Center for Materials Research (CCMR) on the development of materials to advance sustainable living. The stud...

16 Sep 2009

Australia to House the World's Most Powerful Electron-Beam Lithography (EBL) Tool for Nanotechnology

The Australian research community will soon have access to one of the most powerful nanotechnology instruments in the world, able to write and etch data on particles ten thousand times smaller than the width of a human h...

16 Sep 2009

Understanding of Friction in Nanotube May Offer New Tool for Nanoassembling

Nanotubes and nanowires are promising building blocks for future integrated nanoelectronic and photonic circuits, nanosensors, interconnects and electro-mechanical nanodevices. But some fundamental issues remain to be resolved - among them, how to position and manipulate the tiny tubes.

16 Sep 2009

New Method for Removing Toxic Mercury from Industrial Waste

Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory have patented a new method to remove toxic mercury from soil, sediment, sludge and other industrial waste.

16 Sep 2009

Julius Springer Prize Goes to Leading Scientist in Nanophotonic Development

This year's Julius Springer Prize for Applied Physics will be awarded to Professor Motoichi Ohtsu for his pioneering and seminal work on nanophotonics and near field optics as well as for the development of innovativ...

15 Sep 2009

Bayer's Multi-Wall Carbon Nanotubes Significantly Reduces Risk of Explosions

Baytubes® multi-wall carbon nanotubes (CNTs) from Bayer MaterialScience are to be used in an innovative safety technology that significantly reduces the risk of explosions in fuel tanks. Bayer MaterialScience AG and Hirt...

15 Sep 2009

New Simulation Predicts Deformation with More Accuracy

There are components that save lives: if a car rolls over during an accident, the ‘B-pillar’ plays a key role. It forms one of the connections between the floor and roof of the vehicle and is designed to prevent the passenger cell from deforming too much.

15 Sep 2009

Rio Tinto Announce Divestment of its Cable Division to Platinum Equity

Rio Tinto has taken the first step in divesting its downstream Alcan Engineered Products business by agreeing to the sale of 56 per cent of its Cable division to Platinum Equity. Rio Tinto Alcan will remain a key supplier of aluminium rod and molten aluminium to Cable’s plants in North America.

15 Sep 2009