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Brewing Engineers Looking at Developing Environmentally Friendly Beer

A cool, freshly drawn beer – for many a person this is the greatest of pleasures. But, in fact, a bad conscience should haunt us when we drink beer as it is among the most energy-intensive foodstuffs during product...

7 Sep 2009

Bacteria Set Out to Help Clean Up Nuclear Waste

Using bacteria and inositol phosphate, a chemical analogue of a cheap waste material from plants, researchers at Birmingham University have recovered uranium from the polluted waters from uranium mines. The same technolo...

7 Sep 2009

Getting More Out of Fuel Cells with Electric Bacteria

Bacteria that generate significant amounts of electricity could be used in microbial fuel cells to provide power in remote environments or to convert waste to electricity. Professor Derek Lovley from the University of Ma...

7 Sep 2009

Bacteria Found to Strengthen Bone Implants

Bacteria that manufacture hydroxyapatite (HA) could be used to make stronger, more durable bone implants. Professor Lynne Macaskie from the University of Birmingham this week (7-10 September) presented work to the Societ...

7 Sep 2009

SKF Introduces New Bearing Solution for Latest Micro-Hybrid Cars

SKF, the leading knowledge engineering company, has developed a new bearing solution for the latest environmentally friendly micro-hybrid cars.

6 Sep 2009

Patterning Photonic Crystal Structures Promises More Efficient LEDs

Currently there is a tremendous incentive to increase the efficiency of LEDs as they continue to find application in more and more areas such as consumer products, residential and consumer lighting and automotive industry.

4 Sep 2009

Market Reports Only the Strong Will Survive in the Solar Industry

The solar industry is at a critical stage and 50% of existing solar manufacturers may not survive 2010 according to the report Opportunities in The Solar Market For Crystalline and Thin Film Solar Cells, published by The...

4 Sep 2009

IPI Europe to Facilitate Tutorial for Photonics and Plastic Electronics Knowledge Transfer Network

The Photonics and Plastic Electronics Knowledge Transfer Network have invited IPI Europe to facilitate a tutorial on 19th September in London. The event, which will held at The Institute of Materials, Minerals & ...

4 Sep 2009

Sample Kit with Transponder Coils Now Available from EPCOS

EPCOS is now offering automotive electronics developers a sample kit with transponder coils. The types with dimensions of 7.8 x 2.7 x 2.7 mm3 and 11.4 x 3.5 x 3.5 mm3 are designed for polarization in the x-y coordinates (B82450A* series). They cover inductances of between 1.0 and 7.0 mH. These transponder coils have a sensitivity of between 10 and 51 mV/µT.

4 Sep 2009

High Performance Solid Carbide Twist Drills Made Possible with CNC Multi-Axis Grinding Machines

CNC multi-axis grinding machines using NUM's NUMROTOplus 3D simulation and control software are helping Miller Präzisionswerkzeuge GmbH to manufacture a new series of high-performance MAPAL-brand solid carbide t...

4 Sep 2009

Difficult to Produce Green LEDs Getting Closer

Researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute are working to create better, brighter green LEDs, which could lead to a new generation of high-performance, energy-efficient monitors, TVs, and other display devices. The problem, however, is that green LEDs are more difficult to create than anyone imagined.

4 Sep 2009

Wacker to Promote Products for Paints and Coatings at ABRAFATI 2009

Under the "Inspired by Excellence" motto, the Munich-based WACKER Group will present sustainable product solutions from its areas of expertise in coatings and construction at ABRAFATI 2009 - the 11th international tradeshow for suppliers to the paints and coatings industry.

From Wacker Chemie AG 4 Sep 2009

Cloud Packaging Solutions Grows via Acquisition

Cloud Packaging Solutions LLC ("Cloud"), a portfolio company of Cameron Holdings Corporation, is pleased to announce the acquisition of Toll Packaging Group, LLC ("Toll Packaging") located in Gibson C...

4 Sep 2009

Appalachian State University Win $500K Grant to Buy State of the Art TEM-STEM

Appalachian State University's William C. and Ruth Ann Dewel Microscopy Facility has received a $509,620 award from the National Science Foundation to purchase a state-of-the-art transmission electron microscope/scan...

4 Sep 2009

Magnetic Nanopoles Observed for the First Time

Researchers from the Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin für Materialien und Energie have, in cooperation with colleagues from Dresden, St. Andrews, La Plata and Oxford, for the first time observed magnetic monopoles and how they emerge in a real material. They publish this result in the journal Science within the Science Express web site on Sept. 3.

4 Sep 2009