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Maximize The Performance of Your TEM with the X-Max Large Area Silicon Drift Detector

Oxford Instruments' revolutionary X-Max large area Silicon Drift Detector (SDD) is now available for the analytical TEM. The ability to handle high count rates in a liquid nitrogen free environment, combined with INCAEnergy TEM software, ensures X-Max will maximise the performance of a TEM.

From Oxford Instruments NanoAnalysis 30 Jul 2009

COLED Technology Could be The Replacement for Incandescent and Fluorescent Lighting

SRI International and Showa Denko K.K. in partnership with Itochu Plastics Inc. (CIPS), have achieved record-breaking results using SRI’s new cavity organic light-emitting diode (COLED) technology and SDK’s light-emitting polymers to produce a highly efficient light source that could one day replace incandescent and fluorescent light bulbs.

30 Jul 2009

Shrimp Shells Could Make Make Biodiesel Production Faster and Cheaper

Call it a "shrimp cocktail" for your fuel tank. Scientists in China are reporting development of a catalyst made from shrimp shells that could transform production of biodiesel fuel into a faster, less expensive, and more environmentally friendly process.

30 Jul 2009

Heat Transfer Can be Much Greater Than Planck's Law Predicts

A well-established physical law describes the transfer of heat between two objects, but some physicists have long predicted that the law should break down when the objects are very close together. Scientists had never been able to confirm, or measure, this breakdown in practice.

30 Jul 2009

Construction Guide for Producing Earthquake Resistant Buildings

A guide for designing buildings using steel moment frames to resist earthquakes has been published by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) as part of its support for the National Earthquake Hazards R...

30 Jul 2009

ASM International Secures Orders for Two Atomic Layer Deposition Systems

ASM International N.V. (NASDAQ: ASMI and Euronext Amsterdam: ASM), today announced that it has sold its Pulsar Atomic Layer Deposition (ALD) system for high-k gates to two top Japanese logic device manufacturers for inse...

30 Jul 2009

New Softener to Treat Flame Retardant Textiles

Dow Corning Corporation, a leading supplier of innovative silicone solutions for the textiles industry, and DEVAN Chemicals have jointly developed a new softener to treat flame-retardant textiles. Dow Corning brand DS-90...

From Dow Corning 30 Jul 2009

Dow Corning to Show Off Various Textile Technolgies at 2009 Techtextil, Internationale Frankfurter Messe

Dow Corning Corporation, a leading supplier of innovative silicone solutions for the textile industry, will exhibit at the 2009 Techtextil, Internationale Frankfurter Messe June 16- 18, 2009. Dow Corning will feature &qu...

From Dow Corning 29 Jul 2009

Active Textile Protection Systems from Dow Corning

Dow Corning Corporation, a leader in innovative silicone technology for the textile industry, has added two new product lines to its Dow Corning brand Active Protection System family of impact protection materials. The S...

From Airflow Systems, Inc. 29 Jul 2009

International Packaging Specialist Acquires Plastic Film Producer

Clondalkin Group, the international producer of flexible and specialist packaging products with 40+ production locations throughout Europe and North America and annual sales in excess of $1.2 billion, is pleased to annou...

29 Jul 2009

Glass Fiber Reinforced Polyamide Alternative to Halogenated Polymers

A new 25% glass fiber-reinforced polyamide 6 compound provides injection molders with an alternative to halogenated flame retardant (FR) formulations while meeting stringent requirements for flame retardance, it was announced today by Chem Polymer, a unit of Teknor Apex Company.

From Teknor Apex 29 Jul 2009

American Superconductor Increase Supply Agreement for Wind Turbine Components

American Superconductor Corporation (NASDAQ: AMSC), a global energy technologies company, today announced that it has amended its multi-year contract with Beijing-based Sinovel Wind Corporation Limited, China’s lar...

29 Jul 2009

Important Revision for the Standard for Measuring the Particle Size of Nanomaterials

A revision to an important ASTM nanotechnology standard incorporates a large-scale interlaboratory study that took place in 2008. The revised standard, ASTM E2490, Guide for Measurement of Particle Size Distribution of Nanomaterials in Suspension by Photon Correlation Spectroscopy (PCS), is under the jurisdiction of Subcommittee E56.02 on Characterization: Physical, Chemical and Toxicological Properties, part of ASTM International Committee E56 on Nanotechnology.

29 Jul 2009

Findings Open The Door to Improved Microbial Fuel Cell Architecture

In their most recent experiments with Geobacter, the sediment-loving microbe whose hairlike filaments help it to produce electric current from mud and wastewater, Derek Lovley and colleagues at the University of Massachusetts Amherst supervised the evolution of a new strain that dramatically increases power output per cell and overall bulk power.

29 Jul 2009

Valuable IP is Being Under Utilized

Today, in the midst of the recession, companies are scrambling to find unconventional ways to increase revenue and maximize their assets -- ideally at little or no additional cost. According to Chipworks, the world's...

29 Jul 2009