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Bricks Made from Cow Dung Win $25000 Prize

Making high-quality bricks from abundantly available cow dung – instead of depleting scarce firewood and clay – earned the EcoFaeBrick team from Prasetiya Mulya Business School in Indonesia the $25,000 top prize at the tenth annual Global Social Venture Competition at the University of California, Berkeley’s Haas School of Business this weekend.

27 Apr 2009

Spooky Action Used to Shed Light on Quantum Physics

The idea that far distant particles can somehow ’talk’ to each other worried Einstein so much that he called it ‘spooky action at a distance’.

27 Apr 2009

Students from Around the World Challenged to Design a Building for an Earthquake Zone

The Dynamic Designs Challenge will invite teams of students around the world to take part in a unique competition to design a building for an earthquake zone. Two leading earthquake engineers at the University of Bri...

27 Apr 2009

Industry Leading Spectrophotometer Comes Pre-Loaded with Process COntrol Standard Database

X-Rite, Incorporated (NASDAQ: XRIT), the world leader in color management, measurement and communication technologies, today announced that its industry-leading spectrophotometer, SpectroEye, is now shipping pre-loaded w...

27 Apr 2009

Wayne State University Gets First of Its Kind Wind Energy Turbine

Wayne State University has erected a Franklin Vertical Axis Wind Turbine (VAWT) -- the first small wind energy turbine of its kind in North America -- atop the university's Engineering Technology Building. Mounted...

27 Apr 2009

SINTEF Helps Subsea Oil Fields Protect Against Ice

Operators of subsea fields on the continental shelf spend huge sums on combating insidious ice-like crystals, but a chemical jigsaw puzzle that is being pieced together in SINTEF is at last offering hope of a less expensive means of protection against this "ice".

27 Apr 2009

Weyerhaeuser to Close Log Exporting Facility in Washington State

Weyerhaeuser Company (NYSE:WY) will close its Bay City log export facility in Aberdeen, Wash., affecting some 54 employees. The facility will inventory and clear remaining logs from the yard over the next 30 days befo...

27 Apr 2009

New Software Available for Virtual Prototyping Optical Systems and Devices

Breault Research Organization (BRO) has released a new version of the company's Advanced Systems Analysis Program (ASAP). The ASAP 2009 V1R1 release adds significant capability to the program well known to the opt...

27 Apr 2009

Lanxess Welcomes European Initiative for More Environmentally Friendly Tires

New tire labeling is an important step toward improved fuel efficiency, lower CO2 emissions and greater safety / New vehicles have to be fitted with fuel-saving tires from 2011.

27 Apr 2009

World Leading Scientific Equipment Manufacturer to Exploit Australia and New Zealand Markets More Aggresively

Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. (NYSE: TMO), the world leader in serving science, today announced it has entered into an agreement to acquire Biolab, the leading provider of analytical instruments, life science consumables...

From Thermo Fisher Scientific 27 Apr 2009

New System for Mounting Heat Sinks to Ball Grid Array Components from ATS

Advanced Thermal Solutions, Inc. announced today the introduction of superGRIP, a new two-component, attachment system which quickly and securely mounts heat sinks to a wide range of hot running Ball Grid Array (BGA) com...

27 Apr 2009

Linde to Sign Long Term Supply Hydrogen Supply Deal with Shell

Linde North America and Shell Oil Company have executed a long-term contract for Linde to supply hydrogen for Shell's Deer Park, Texas, complex. The hydrogen will be used primarily for the production of clean-burn...

From Linde plc 27 Apr 2009

New Mixed Metal Nanomaterials Offering from Research and Markets

Research and Markets has announced the addition of Mixed Metal Nanomaterials to its offerings. These ten volumes provide an excellent, in-depth overview of all nanomaterial types and their uses in the life sciences. ...

27 Apr 2009

High Performance Transmission Polarizer Available for Pico Projectors

Moxtek has developed a low-cost, high-transmission polarizer for the pico-projector market, the EXT series of polarizers. This polarizer has minimum transmission of 93% of polarized light with a contrast of around 50:...

From Moxtek, Inc. 27 Apr 2009

Environmentally Friendly Power Cables under Development

Engineers at the University of Southampton are part of a team developing new "green" power cables which can be recycled at the end of their lives. The project, funded by the Engineering and Physical Sciences...

27 Apr 2009

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The Current State of the Global Semiconductor Market

The global semiconductor market has entered an exciting period. Demand for chip technology is both driving the industry as well as hindering it, with current chip shortages predicted to last for some time. Current trends will likely shape the future of the industry, which is set to continue to show

How are Graphene Batteries Made?

The primary distinction between graphene-based batteries and solid-state batteries lies in the composition of either electrode. Although the cathode is commonly changed, carbon allotropes can also be employed in fabricating anodes.

What Role Will The IoT Play In The Electric Vehicle Industry?

In recent years, the IoT is rapidly being introduced into almost all sectors, but it has particular importance in the EV industry.

Materials Science News

Bricks Made from Cow Dung Win $25000 Prize

Spooky Action Used to Shed Light on Quantum Physics

Students from Around the World Challenged to Design a Building for an Earthquake Zone

Industry Leading Spectrophotometer Comes Pre-Loaded with Process COntrol Standard Database

Wayne State University Gets First of Its Kind Wind Energy Turbine

SINTEF Helps Subsea Oil Fields Protect Against Ice

Weyerhaeuser to Close Log Exporting Facility in Washington State

New Software Available for Virtual Prototyping Optical Systems and Devices

Lanxess Welcomes European Initiative for More Environmentally Friendly Tires

World Leading Scientific Equipment Manufacturer to Exploit Australia and New Zealand Markets More Aggresively

New System for Mounting Heat Sinks to Ball Grid Array Components from ATS

Linde to Sign Long Term Supply Hydrogen Supply Deal with Shell

New Mixed Metal Nanomaterials Offering from Research and Markets

High Performance Transmission Polarizer Available for Pico Projectors

Environmentally Friendly Power Cables under Development

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The Current State of the Global Semiconductor Market

How are Graphene Batteries Made?

What Role Will The IoT Play In The Electric Vehicle Industry?

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How to Assess the Thermomechanical Integrity of Thin Films and Nano-Interconnects

Navigating the EU Methane Regulations with LDAR Strategies

Reshaping Metallographic Sample Preparation

1TANAKA to Provide Medals for the Tokyo Marathon 2025 That Represent All the Participants in the Event with Woven Lines

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3Stable Lithium Plating and Stripping Mechanism in Anode-Less Lithium Batteries

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5Lithium Recovery from Spent LFP-NMC Batteries via Atmospheric Water Leaching

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