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AMS Now Offer Fiber Optic Inspection Tools from Nanometer Technologies

AMS Technologies AG, pan European distributor of high-tech systems and components based in Germany, and Nanometer Technologies, based in California, have entered into a distribution agreement.

From AMS Technologies AG 20 Aug 2009

Amcor Bids to Expand Packaging Empire

Amcor has offered to acquire parts of Alcan Packaging for US$2025 million from Rio Tinto. The Alcan Packaging businesses which Amcor has agreed to acquire include: Alcan Packaging Global Pharmaceuticals, Alcan Packaging ...

20 Aug 2009

Integrated System Helps Plastic Extruders Work More Efficiently and Save Energy

To simplify monitoring of all extrusion line parameters, Battenfeld Extrusions-technik GmbH, Bad Oeynhausen, Germany has now developed a modular con-cept consisting of three components: energy monitoring, production monitor-ing and maintenance monitoring.

20 Aug 2009

New Valve Increases Maple Syrup Yields

An innovative new maple spout developed by the University of Vermont's Proctor Maple Research Center with funding from the U.S. Department of Agriculture secured by Senator Patrick J. Leahy, will have a dramatic impa...

20 Aug 2009

Butanol as a Biofuel gets a Step Closer with Increased Yields

Engineers at Ohio State University have found a way to double the production of the biofuel butanol, which might someday replace gasoline in automobiles. The process improves on the conventional method for brewing bu...

20 Aug 2009

New Nanofabrication Centre Promises Smaller and More Powerful Nano and Biotechnologies

The Southampton Nanofabrication Centre, which opens on 9 September will make smaller, more powerful nano- and bio-nanotechnologies possible and save industry time and money.

19 Aug 2009

New Electron Properties Could be Exploited by Applications in Computing and Lasers

Researchers in France, Germany, Switzerland and the UK have discovered new electron properties that could lead to useful applications in computers and lasers. The study, published in the journal Nature Materials, was fun...

19 Aug 2009

Fish Inspire Researchers to Develop New Smart Materials

The remarkable ability of fish to maneuver in tight places, or to hover in one area efficiently, or to accelerate in a seemingly effortless fashion has researchers wondering if they can create smarter materials that emulate the biology of these vertebrates.

19 Aug 2009

Non-Toxic Environmentally Friendly Technique for Making ZnO Nanorods

A non-toxic and environmentally friendly way to make tiny nanorods of zinc oxide has been developed for the first time by researchers in Saudi Arabia. The approach, described in the current issue of the International Jou...

19 Aug 2009

Strong Flexible Composites Formed with Silk and Nanoparticles

Using thin films of silk as templates, researchers have incorporated inorganic nanoparticles that join with the silk to form strong and flexible composite structures that have unusual optical and mechanical properties.

19 Aug 2009

Using Titanium Dioxide Nanoparticles to Target and Treat Brain Tumors

Scientists from the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory and the University of Chicago's Brain Tumor Center have developed a way to target brain cancer cells using inorganic titanium dioxide nanoparticles bonded to soft biological material.

19 Aug 2009

Reducing Smudging and Reflections on Touch Screen Electronic Devices

Scientists have discovered the secret to easing one of the great frustrations of the millions who use smart phones, portable media players and other devices with touch- screens: Reducing their tendency to smudge and cutting glare from sunlight.

From Carl Zeiss Microscopy GmbH 19 Aug 2009

Carbon Nanotubes Used to Kill Prostate Cancer

Researchers at Wake Forest University School of Medicine have destroyed prostate cancer tumors in mice by injecting them with specially-coated, miniscule carbon tubes and then superheating the tubes with a brief zap of a...

19 Aug 2009

High Power X-Ray responsible for Such Things as Fuel Cell Catalysts

What can you do with x-rays that are 10 billion times brighter than those from your doctor's x-ray machine? A lot! Scientists using the powerful beam lines at Berkeley Lab's Advanced Light Source in recent years have conducted breakthrough research on platinum-nickel alloys as a catalyst for fuel cells, made a discovery about the Ebola virus structure that could lead to a vaccine, and crafted a new technique for guiding self-assembly of nanostructures that should open up vistas for entirely new applications.

19 Aug 2009

Progress on CO2 Scrubbing Plant for Coal Fired Power Plants

Dr Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg, Federal Minister of Economics and Technology, and Dr Juergen Ruettgers, State Premier of North Rhine-Westphalia, officially put into operation the pilot scrubbing plant for power station fl...

19 Aug 2009