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124 New Environmentally Friendly Colors for Car Manufacturers

Say “hello” to color. That’s 124 new colors to be exact. And most of them are shades of “green” -- not literally, but environmentally.

1 Jul 2009

Aluminum Windows Designed to Views and Energy Efficiency

Alcoa (NYSE:AA) announced today that its Kawneer business, the leading manufacturer of architectural aluminum building products and systems for commercial construction, introduced its new AA3350 ISOPORT Window, designed ...

1 Jul 2009

Auto Manufacturers to Increase Use of IR Reflective Glass To Improve Fuel Efficiency For Vehicles

As a result of yesterday’s unanimous vote by the California Air Resources Board to enact California Assembly bill AB-32’s Cool Car Standards and Test Procedures, auto manufacturers will increase the use of IR...

1 Jul 2009

Materials Scientists Turning Corn into Plastic

Some call it corn. Others say maize. It originally came from Mesoamerica (now Mexico) and is now the most widely grown crop in the Americas. At Battelle, it's being converted into plastic by a team of innovative materials scientists.

1 Jul 2009

American Elements Further Expands Bismuth Telluride Production Facilities

Los Angeles-based American Elements announced the further expansion of its bismuth telluride (Bi2Te3) production facilities to meet growing demand for the semiconductor material in computer chip production. BiTe forms av...

30 Jun 2009

New Technique Improves Measurement Of Nanostructure Properties

A new statistical analysis technique that identifies and removes systematic bias, noise and equipment-based artifacts from experimental data could lead to more precise and reliable measurement of nanomaterials and nanostructures likely to have future industrial applications.

30 Jun 2009

Development Of An Overall "Organic Electronics" Process To Permit The Industrial Use Of Smart Labels

Merck KGaA announced today that it has launched the "Printed Organic Switches and Chips" project (Polytos) together with its partners in the excellence cluster known as the "Forum Organic Electronics"...

30 Jun 2009

Nanofiltration - An Overview of Technology Development Status and Trends

Research and Markets, leading source for international market research and market data, has announced the addition of Frost + Sullivan's new report "Nanofiltration - An Overview of Technology Development Status ...

30 Jun 2009

Drug-Delivery Technology Involving Microcapsules and Nanocoating

Combat-related injuries have long plagued the military in part because of multidrug-resistant bacteria. Imagine being able to spray a compound fracture with microcapsules that deliver a drug to bolster the immune system,...

30 Jun 2009

New Insight into High-Temperature Superconductivity

A Princeton-led research team has revealed surprising information about how electron behavior influences the conduction of electricity in a class of high-temperature superconductors.

30 Jun 2009

Research May Ultimately Track The Uptake Of Drugs by the Body's Cells

Researchers in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Leicester have developed a new synthesis method, which has led them to the discovery of fluorescent silicon nanoparticles and may ultimately help track the uptake of drugs by the body's cells.

30 Jun 2009

JEOL Demonstrates New Ultrahigh Resolution Analytical Thermal Field Emission SEM at Semicon West

JEOL, a leading supplier of electron microscopes for ultrahigh resolution imaging and analysis, will demonstrate its new ultrahigh resolution, analytical Thermal Field Emission Scanning Electron Microscope (SEM), the JSM-7600F, via live remote viewing and control from Semicon West, San Francisco, July 14-16.

30 Jun 2009

New Sensor Technology For Biomedical Analysis And Other Applications

A new type of optical particle trap can be used to manipulate bacteria, viruses and other particles on a chip as part of an integrated optofluidic platform. The optical trap is the latest innovation from researchers at t...

30 Jun 2009

New Scientific Challenges To The Design And Manufacture of Future Ultra-High Density Data Storage Devices

A tiny grid pattern has led materials scientists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the Institute of Solid State Physics in Russia to an unexpected finding.

30 Jun 2009

Novel Ion Trap Could Usher in a New Generation Of Application

Now, a novel ion trap geometry demonstrated at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) could usher in a new generation of applications because the device holds promise as a stylus for sensing very small forces or as an interface for efficient transfer of individual light particles for quantum communications.

30 Jun 2009