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BASF to Show Off Specialty Product Lines for Composites

BASF’s
special product line for composites will be shown at the JEC Composites Show
in Paris, March 24 to 26, 2009. Around the globe the fair is considered as one
of the most important for the named specialty materials.

22 Feb 2009

Market Report on the Global Market for Carbon Nanotubes

Reportlinker.com announces that a new market research report related to the Nanotechnology industry is available in its catalogue. The Global Market for Carbon Nanotubes Nanotechnology can be described as manipula...

From Report Linker 22 Feb 2009

BASF Foam Used to to Protect Beijing's Swimming Stadium

BASF’s
specialty foam Basotect® is being used in the Beijing swimming stadium in
order to clad the interior of the building with flame-retardant and environmentally
friendly acoustic insulation.

22 Feb 2009

Sustainable Fashion from Recycled Plastic Bottles

According to The Clean Air Council, Americans throw away 2.5 million plastic bottles per hour. That would amount to about 60 million bottles thrown out per day by Americans. Now imagine having a use for these discarde...

21 Feb 2009

New Method for Producing Highly Ordered Macroscopic Arrays of Nanoscopic Elements to Revolutionize Microelectronics

Like many creative but essentially conservative scientists, Tom Russell of the University of Massachusetts Amherst, in more than 30 years of polymer science research, would rarely use the term "truly transformative&...

21 Feb 2009

Duralor Perfects Superhard Cubic Boron Nitride Coatings

Following seven years of intensive research and development, Duralor has perfected cubic boron nitride (cBN) composite coatings for metal cutting tools and is now marketing those coatings as TuffTek® to tool makers. ...

21 Feb 2009

Dupont Report on UK Ethanol Joint Venture Fuel Project

Vivergo Fuels, a
joint venture created by BP, British Sugar and DuPont announced progress in
its efforts to build and operate a world-scale wheat-to-bioethanol plant in
the United Kingdom.

20 Feb 2009

Corus Inaugurates Joint Venture Service Centre in Greece

Corus and Elastron, the Greek steel distributor and processor until recently called Kalpinis-Simos, are today inaugurating a new joint-venture service centre in northern Greece that will focus on strip and long products....

20 Feb 2009

New Electron Behaviour Observed in Materials Could Revolutionize Computing

An international team of scientists, led by a Princeton University group, has observed an exciting and strange behavior in electrons' spin within a new material that could be harnessed to transform computing and elec...

20 Feb 2009

One Stop Shop for Nanoelectronics

University of Pittsburgh researchers have created a nanoscale one-stop shop, a single platform for creating electronics at a nearly single-atom scale that could yield advanced forms of such technologically important devi...

20 Feb 2009

Work on Quantum Dots Results in NSF Award

Matthew Doty, assistant professor in the Department of Materials Science and
Engineering at the University
of Delaware, has received a National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career
Development Award for his work on quantum dot molecules.

20 Feb 2009

Dramatic Improvements to Data Storage Thanks to Nanoscale Self-Assembly

An innovative and easily implemented technique in which nanoscale elements
precisely assemble themselves over large surfaces could soon open doors to dramatic
improvements in the data storage capacity of electronic media, according to
scientists.

20 Feb 2009

Something Very Small will be the Big Focus at Upcoming ACS Exhibition

The scientific field that focuses on the ultra-small — nanotechnology — will play the biggest single role in the 237th National Meeting & Exhibition of the American Chemical Society (ACS), which takes pla...

20 Feb 2009

Hydrogen Peroxide Production Just got More Environmantally Friendly Thanks to Gold-Palladium Nanoparticles

Hydrogen peroxide is one of the world's most versatile and widely used chemicals. A powerful oxidizing agent, H2O2 is commonly used as a bleach, an antiseptic and a disinfectant. Despite its importance, however, s...

20 Feb 2009

Unusual Electronic Properties Threaten to Revolutionize Solar Cells

Physicists at Rutgers University have discovered unusual electronic properties in a material that has potential to improve solar cell efficiency and computer chip design. The scientists determined that a crystal made ...

20 Feb 2009

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BASF to Show Off Specialty Product Lines for Composites

Market Report on the Global Market for Carbon Nanotubes

BASF Foam Used to to Protect Beijing's Swimming Stadium

Sustainable Fashion from Recycled Plastic Bottles

New Method for Producing Highly Ordered Macroscopic Arrays of Nanoscopic Elements to Revolutionize Microelectronics

Duralor Perfects Superhard Cubic Boron Nitride Coatings

Dupont Report on UK Ethanol Joint Venture Fuel Project

Corus Inaugurates Joint Venture Service Centre in Greece

New Electron Behaviour Observed in Materials Could Revolutionize Computing

One Stop Shop for Nanoelectronics

Work on Quantum Dots Results in NSF Award

Dramatic Improvements to Data Storage Thanks to Nanoscale Self-Assembly

Something Very Small will be the Big Focus at Upcoming ACS Exhibition

Hydrogen Peroxide Production Just got More Environmantally Friendly Thanks to Gold-Palladium Nanoparticles

Unusual Electronic Properties Threaten to Revolutionize Solar Cells

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

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How Advanced Particulate Monitors are Transforming Real-time Air Quality Management

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