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New Nanoporous Material Shows Signifcantly Higher Surface Area than Any Other

University of Michigan researchers have developed a nanoporous material with a surface area significantly higher than that of any other porous material reported to date. The work, by a team led by associate professor ...

10 Mar 2009

New Report Outlines The Market for Nanocoatings to 2015

Electronics.ca Publications, the electronics industry market research and knowledge network, announces the availability of a new report entitled "The Market for Nanocoatings to 2015". Currently, competitive ...

10 Mar 2009

Cellular Neural Networks (CNN) Technology Allows Instant Control Laser Welding

Car doors are usually assembled from several sections of sheet metal which are welded together by laser. The laser beam moves over the slightly overlapping sheets and melts them in a spot measuring several tenths of a millimeter, producing a so called full penetration hole that closes again when the laser beam moves on.

10 Mar 2009

FEI Unveil the Quanta™ 50 Series Multipurpose High-Performance Imaging SEM

The Quanta™ 50 Series scanning electron microscope (SEM) offers an outstanding combination of performance and versatility over an extraordinary range of samples. The Quanta 50 Series will be introduced at Pittcon (booth 1642) taking place in Chicago.

10 Mar 2009

Bio-Based Specialty Glycerine Carbonate Attracts Attention in Coating Applications

Huntsman Performance Products, a division of Huntsman Corporation (NYSE: HUN), today announced the commercial availability of its new specialty carbonate, JEFFSOL(R) Glycerine Carbonate. Manufactured by Huntsman using...

10 Mar 2009

Alcoa Named The World's Most Admired Metals Company by Fortune

In addition to being the most admired metals company, Alcoa also took top position in innovation, social responsibility, and quality of products and services within the entire industry.

From Alcoa - Aluminum Company of America 10 Mar 2009

New Ice Material to Seed Clouds and Cause Rain

This week's Nature Materials (09 March 2009) reveals how an international team of scientists led by researchers at the London Centre for Nanotechnology (LCN) at UCL have discovered a novel one dimensional ice chain structure built from pentagons that may prove to be a step toward the development of new materials

9 Mar 2009

The World's Most Advanced Electron Microscopes to Significantly Advance Nanomaterials

Arizona State University will be home to one of the world's most advanced electron microscopes, one that will enable researchers to do work essential to making significant advances in nanoscale aspects of solid state...

9 Mar 2009

Rio Tinto Finalize Sale and Purchase Agreement for Jacobs Ranch Coal Mine

Rio Tinto has signed a sale and purchase agreement to sell its Jacobs Ranch coal mine to Arch Coal, Inc. for a total cash consideration of US$761 million. Completion of the transaction remains subject to customary closin...

9 Mar 2009

Start-Up of the World's Largest Propylene Oxide (PO) Plant with Innovative HPPO Technology

BASF SE and The Dow Chemical Company announced that the world's largest commercial-scale propylene oxide (PO) plant and the first based on the innovative hydrogen peroxide to propylene oxide (HPPO) technology jointly...

9 Mar 2009

World's Largest Laser Gears Up for Experiments

Construction of the National Ignition Facility (NIF), the world's largest and highest-energy laser system, was essentially completed on Feb. 26, when technicians at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL), where the laser is located, fired the first full system shot to the center of the NIF target chamber.

8 Mar 2009