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Leading Journal Chemical Physics Letters Award Second Molecular Sciences Prize

The Editors of the leading international journal Chemical Physics Letters are pleased to announce that the second Ahmed Zewail Prize in Molecular Sciences has been awarded to Professor Mostafa El-Sayed from Georgia Insti...

From Elsevier - Materials Science & Technology Publisher 3 Oct 2008

Schott Look to Buy Japanese Optical Equipment Maker

German specialty glass maker Schott AG has announced that it will launch a tender offer for Japanese optical equipment maker Moritex Corp., aiming to acquire more than 50% of outstanding Moritex shares. Under the tend...

3 Oct 2008

Metamaterial Could Protect Coastal Areas from Massive Waves

Scientists at the University
of Liverpool have tested an 'invisibility cloak' that could reduce the risk
of large water waves overtopping coastal defences.

3 Oct 2008

Eaton Acquisition Expands Hydraulics Business

Diversified industrial manufacturer Eaton Corporation today announced it has acquired Integ Holdings Limited, the parent company of Integrated Hydraulics Ltd., a U.K. manufacturer of screw-in cartridge valves, custom-eng...

3 Oct 2008

Upcoming Mars Mission to Feature Bearings from Timken

The Timken Company has supplied bearings for a new descent brake system to be used on NASA's upcoming Mars Science Laboratory mission. Scheduled to launch in 2009, the Mars Science Laboratory rover capsule will se...

From The Timken Co. 3 Oct 2008

New Video Demonstrates Innovatove Lithium Battery Powering a Flashlight

Leading microfludics and nanotechnology development company mPhase Technologies, Inc., today announced that it has released a video demonstrating how its manually activated reserve lithium battery with breakable separato...

3 Oct 2008

ExxonMobil Chemical Complete Expansion to Singaporean Hydrocarbon Fluids Plant

ExxonMobil Chemical has completed a 130,000 tons per year capacity expansion at its Exxsol hydrocarbon fluids plant in Jurong Island, Singapore, increasing capacity at this site to more than 500,000 tons per year. The ne...

3 Oct 2008

Eastman Tritan Copolyesters Give More Versatility to Designers of Infant Care Products

Eastman
Chemical Company announced today that brand owners, product designers and
molders in the infant care market can now achieve greater design flexibility
and provide consumers with enhanced product performance by using Eastman Tritan™
copolyester for products like baby bottles, pacifiers and sippy cups.

3 Oct 2008

New Technology for Producing Flexible Displays for Televisions and Laptops

Rigid television screens, bulky laptops and still image posters are to be a thing of the past as new research, published today, Thursday, 2 October, in the New Journal of Physics, heralds the beginning of a technological...

2 Oct 2008

Corning's Microreactor Technology Shown to be Commercially Viable

Corning Incorporated
and DSM Pharma Chemicals announced publication of a joint paper at CPhI Worldwide
2008 in Frankfurt, Germany this week, describing a successful, commercially
viable demonstration of Corning's microreactor technology for Current
Good Manufacturing Practice (cGMP) production.

2 Oct 2008

Nanoparticles Used to Treat Paralysis Delivering Treatments to Brain and Spinal Cord

Purdue University researchers have developed a method of using nanoparticles to deliver treatments to injured brain and spinal cord cells. A team led by Richard Borgens of the School of Veterinary Medicine's Cent...

2 Oct 2008

Veeco Sell Automated 3D AFM to Korean Semiconductor Manufacturer

Veeco
Instruments announced today that its new InSight(TM) 3D Automated
Atomic Force Microscope (3DAFM) Platform has been accepted by a key global semiconductor
customer for Critical Dimension (CD) Reference Metrology for Optical Proximity
Correction (OPC) modeling.

From Veeco 2 Oct 2008