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BASF Receives Award from the European Chemical Industry for Carbon Balance Efforts

BASF was awarded the European Responsible Care® Award by the European chemical industry association CEFIC for its Carbon Balance on October 4, 2008. The judges commemorated the project as a highly innovative meas...

7 Oct 2008

Linde Showcase Advanced Melting and Burner Technologies at GlassTec 2008

Linde Gases, a division of The Linde Group, and a principle provider of gas applications and advanced melting and burner technologies to the global glass manufacturing industry, today announced its participation at Glass...

6 Oct 2008

Researchers Develop New Breast Cancer Imaging Method Using Fluorescent Nanoparticles

Researchers from Penn State Milton S. Hershey Medical Center have discovered a new imaging method for breast cancer. It’s all about fluorescent parts in calcium phosphate nanoparticles and near infrared imaging. ...

6 Oct 2008

BASF Special Polyamides to be Inserted in New Peugeot 308 sw

Sika Automotive has selected BASF’s Ultramid® A3WG10 CR to manufacture a bodywork insert for use in the new Peugeot 308 sw. This plastic belongs to BASF’s new class of special polyamides that have been optimized for high durability and strength.

6 Oct 2008

Leading Nanoelectronic Institute Unveils Joint Venture to Develop High Efficiency LED Devices

IMEC, Europe’s leading independent nanoelectronics research institute, and Taiyo Nippon Sanso Corp. (TNSC), a total solution provider in the compound semiconductor field, today announce that they have signed an agr...

6 Oct 2008

UPM Receives Golden Cylinder Award for Technical Innovation

UPM has been awarded a Golden Cylinder in the annual GAA (Gravure Association of America) Golden Cylinder Awards Competition in September. The award was granted in the Technical Innovation category. UPM participated i...

6 Oct 2008

ExxonMobil Announce Development of Next Generation Power Conversion Technology

ExxonMobil announced today that it has entered into an agreement with Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne to develop next-generation technology to convert coal, coke or biomass to synthesis gas (i.e., CO and hydrogen), which ...

6 Oct 2008

Solar Thin Films Set to Acquire Amorphous Silicon Solar Modules Manufacturer

Solar Thin Films, Inc., a developer, manufacturer and marketer of manufacturing equipment for the production of "thin-film" amorphous silicon photovoltaic modules, has, through Kraft Elektronikai Zrt (“Kr...

6 Oct 2008

Russian Steel Maker Commissions Air Separation Plant

A new air separation plant has been commissioned at NLMK’s main production site in Lipetsk. It will ensure the failsafe supply of air separation products to the steelmaking facilities through the gradual decommissi...

4 Oct 2008

Ferro to Sell Fine Chemicals Business

Ferro Corporation announced today that it has signed an asset purchase agreement with Novolyte Technologies LP, an affiliate of Arsenal Capital Management LP, to sell its Fine Chemicals business for $66 million in cash. ...

4 Oct 2008

New Book Addresses Nanotechnology Including Processing and Life Cycle of Nanomaterials

ARCADIS, an international environmental and engineering services consulting firm, announced today Kate Sellers, P.E., a principal environmental engineer in the Lowell, MA office, edited and co-authored the new publicatio...

3 Oct 2008

Diamond-Based Magnetic Imaging Could be Exciting for Materials Science

Diamond-based magnetic imaging could prove a boon in materials science, biology, medicine Providing a glimpse into the infinitesimal, physicists have found a novel way of spying on some of the universe's tiniest ...

3 Oct 2008

Generating Electricity Using Tips from Nature

Engineers long have known that great ideas can be lifted from Mother Nature,
but a new paper by researchers at Yale University and the National
Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) takes it to a cellular level.
Applying modern engineering design tools to one of the basic units of life,
they argue that artificial cells could be built that not only replicate the
electrical behavior of electric eel cells but in fact improve on them.

3 Oct 2008

New Insights into How Water Behaves Inside Carbon Nanotubes Could Have Wide-Ranging Implications

A fresh discovery about the way water behaves inside carbon nanotubes could have implications in fields ranging from the function of ultra-tiny high-tech devices to scientists' understanding of biological processes, ...

3 Oct 2008

$250K Grant Provided for Nanofiber-Based Probes for Medical Diagnostics

The National Science Foundation has granted two Clemson University professors $250,000 to research and develop nanofiber-based probes - needles that are 10 times smaller in diameter than a human hair - for medical diagno...

3 Oct 2008