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New Controller from Eurotherm Offers Precise Control for Small Extruders

The EM-3c control system is specifically designed for small extruders and is packed with the features of the popular earlier EM-3 Extrusion Control System. Thanks to its efficient Microsoft™ Windows CE.net operating system, the EM-3c system can now be offered at savings of up to 30 percent over earlier PC based versions.

17 Jun 2009

Some Polymers Do Not Break Faster When Stretched

From balloons to rubber bands, things always break faster when stretched. Or do they? University of Illinois scientists studying chemical bonds now have shown this isn't always the case, and their results may have pr...

17 Jun 2009

Plastics Could be Made from Biomass Eliminating the Need for Petrochemicals

In revisiting a chemical reaction that's been in the literature for several decades and adding a new wrinkle of their own, researchers with Berkeley Lab and the University of California (UC) Berkeley have discovered a mild and relatively inexpensive procedure for removing oxygen from biomass. This procedure, if it can be effectively industrialized, could allow many of today's petrochemical products, including plastics, to instead be made from biomass.

17 Jun 2009

ThyssenKrupp Forging Operation Produces 500 Ton Ingot for a Power Plant

Turbine and generator shafts for power plants are made in one piece by the so-called open-die forging process. Societá delle Fucine, an Italian subsidiary of stainless steel producer ThyssenKrupp Acciai Speciali Ter...

From Linde plc 16 Jun 2009

Electronics Could become Smaller, Faster, More Powerful and Use Less Energy

Electronic devices of the future could be smaller, faster, more powerful and consume less energy because of a discovery by researchers at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory. The key to the f...

16 Jun 2009

The Cause of Concrete Deformation Finally Identified

MIT civil engineers have for the first time identified what causes the most frequently used building material on earth -- concrete -- to gradually deform, decreasing its durability and shortening the lifespan of infrastructures such as bridges and nuclear waste containment vessels.

16 Jun 2009

Work on Peeling Stickers Brings Stretchable Electronics A Step Closer

A study of stickers peeling from windows could lead to a new way to precisely control the fabrication of stretchable electronics, according to a team of researchers including one at MIT.

16 Jun 2009

Branched Network of Carbon Nanotubes Could be the Secret to Success of NEMS

Nanoelectromechanical systems (NEMS) devices have the potential to revolutionize the world of sensors: motion, chemical, temperature, etc. But taking electromechanical devices from the micro scale down to the nano requires finding a means to dissipate the heat output of this tiny gadgetry.

16 Jun 2009

Spintronics - The Future of Electronics

European researchers have developed novel concept devices using ferromagnetic semiconductors. Spintronic devices have created enormous advances in microelectronics, leading to faster, instant-on start times and order...

16 Jun 2009

Fujifilm to Start Full Production of Wide View LCD Screens in July

FUJIFILM Corporation will start full operation of plant No.9 for WV (wide-view) Film, which widens viewing angles of liquid crystal displays (LCDs) in early July 2009. The new plant will be located on the compound of Fuj...

16 Jun 2009

Construction Starts on New Energy Research Facility at BNL

The U.S. Department of Energy’s Brookhaven National Laboratory announced today that it is beginning construction of the conventional facilities at the National Synchrotron Light Source II (NSLS-II), a project that will advance energy research for the nation and create hundreds of jobs for Long Island over the next several years.

16 Jun 2009