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Light Detecting Fibres in Soldier's Uniforms Identify Threats in All Directions

Imagine a soldier's uniform made of a special fabric that allows him to look in all directions and identify threats that are to his side or even behind him. In work that could turn such science fiction into reality, MIT researchers have developed light-detecting fibers that, when weaved into a web, act as a flexible camera.

7 Jul 2009

Work on Shaping and Forming Metals Results in Recognition

Subhash Mahajan, Fulton Technical Fellow in the Ira A. Fulton School of Engineering at ASU, is being recognized by the Institute of Metal Research of the Chinese Academy of Sciences for his accomplishments in materials science and engineering.

7 Jul 2009

New Technique for Producing Minute Organometallic Capsules Patented

A group of researchers at the Catalan Institute of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology (CIN2), belonging to the Catalan Institute of Nanotechnology and the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) located at the UAB Research Park, and the UAB Department of Chemistry have developed and patented a method which obtains minute organometallic capsules ranging from micrometric to nanometric sizes.

7 Jul 2009

New Non-Destructive Tool for Measuring Photovoltaic Thin Film Thicknesses

CRAIC Technologies, the leading manufacturer of UV-visible-NIR microscopes and microspectrometers, is pleased to announce the QDI 2010 Film™ microspectrophotometer. The QDI 2010 Film™ instrument is designed to measure the thickness of thin films of photovoltaic cells rapidly and non-destructively.

From CRAIC Technologies 7 Jul 2009

Ausmelt Sells Metallurgical Laboratory Business

Ausmelt Limited (AET) has executed a Sale of Business Agreement for the sale of its Ausmelt Minmet Metallurgical Laboratory (AMML) business at Gosford, New South Wales to Australian Minmet Metallurgical Laboratories Pty ...

7 Jul 2009

Prestigious Engineering Accolade Awarded for Myriad of Achievements by Alcoa Researcher

One of the world’s most prestigious engineering accolades has been awarded to Vince Dooley of Alcoa’s global refining research and development group based at Kwinana in Western Australia.

From Alcoa - Aluminum Company of America 7 Jul 2009

New Helmet Continues to Protect after Multiple Impacts

Skiers, snowboarders and horse riders are first to benefit from an innovative new helmet design that continues to protect after multiple impacts The unique properties of ARPRO have allowed imaginative French company,...

7 Jul 2009

State of the Art Water Purification System for Lab Environments

ELGA, the global labwater brand of Veolia Water Solutions & Technologies, the world’s leading water technology and service company has unveiled the PURELAB flex, a state-of-the-art water purification system.

7 Jul 2009

Carbon Nanotube Manufacturer Receives $3 million Cash Infusion

SouthWest NanoTechnologies Inc. (SWeNT), a leading developer and manufacturer of Single-wall Carbon Nanotubes and Specialty Multiwall Nanotubes will receive up to a $3 million equity infusion from the Insight Technology ...

7 Jul 2009

Wacker Awards €10,000 Silicone Prize for Work on Metal-Silicone Complexes and Sol-Gel

This year’s €10,000 WACKER Silicone Award was presented today to Professor Ulrich Schubert, who holds the Vienna University of Technology’s chair of inorganic chemistry. Dr. Rudolf Staudigl, President and CEO of Wacker Chemie AG, said that Schubert had been chosen because of his trail-blazing work on metal-silicon complexes and his materials science studies such as the sol-gel process.

From Wacker Chemie AG 7 Jul 2009

Making Better Solar Panels using Light-Absorbing Nanowires

A century after German physicist Gustav Mie derived the math to explain why the colors in some stained glass windows look especially resplendent in the sunlight, a team of Stanford engineers has built upon his work to potentially improve a means of harvesting energy from the sun.

7 Jul 2009