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New Nanotechnology Imaging Method for Breast Cancer Patients

More effective early detection of diseases is one of the promises of nanotechnology. Current imaging methods, such as x-rays and magnetic resonance imaging, are limited in the size of tumors they can detect, the depth they can penetrate the body, and by their potential side effects.

27 Sep 2008

Wacker Silicones to Present a Silicone Emulsion for Water-Based Silicone Impregnants

The microemulsion can be used for various household care applications and imparts a markedly hydrophobic, e.g. water-repellent surface not only to textiles, but also to leather, wood and cork. The 55th SEPAWA Congress will be held from October 15-17 in Würzburg, Germany.

27 Sep 2008

The Rise of the Qatalum Smelter - A Giant Cultural Project

The Qatalum smelter is rising from the desert in Qatar thanks to the efforts from more than 12,000 workers currently on site from all over the world to erect this aluminium giant under challenging conditions.

27 Sep 2008

Development of New Screening Process of Chemcial Modifications in DNA

A new process called methylation has been developed at the Medical school in Baltimore. It actually helps discovering chemical modifications to DNA. This discovery could help in early cancer diagnosis. What methylatio...

27 Sep 2008

DSM Announce Plans to Invest in Innovative Pharmaceutical Packaging Solutions

DSM Venturing, the corporate venturing unit of Royal DSM N.V., today announces that it has made an equity investment in The Compliers Group International B.V. (TCG). The Netherlands-based company focuses on the devel...

27 Sep 2008

Chemical Industry Re-Evaluate Alternative Approach to Raw Material Supplies

The high prices of naphtha (crude petroleum) as a feedstock for steam crackers are prompting the chemical industry to re-evaluate alternative approaches to securing raw material supplies. One long-known process is th...

27 Sep 2008

MIT to Design Epic Landfill Project to Include Spaceport

Many architects dream of being given a "tabula rasa" -- a blank slate -- upon which they could let the imagination soar when designing a home, building or other project.

27 Sep 2008

Scientists Develop New Method to Produce Environmentally Friendly Nanoparticles

Gold nanoparticles are everywhere. They are used in cancer treatments, automobile sensors, cell phones, blood sugar monitors and hydrogen gas production. However, until recently, scientists couldn't create the na...

27 Sep 2008

Establishment of New Corrosion Center to Develop Better Corrosion Prevention Technology

Rice University has established a National Corrosion Center where researchers will develop better technology for preventing corrosion -- a problem that is estimated to cost $276 billion a year in the U.S. To develop ...

27 Sep 2008

Siemens Awarded Contract to Supply Equipments for New Steel Mill in Ukraine

The Ukrainian steel producer Zaporizhstal Integrated Iron & Steel Works JSC (Zaporizhstal JSC) awarded Siemens VAI Metals Technologies a major contract for the supply of hot-metal desulphurization stations, LD steelm...

27 Sep 2008

PPG Industries Announce Acquisition of Coil and Extrusion Coatings Business

PPG Industries Inc. said Thursday it agreed to buy BASF Corp.'s North American coil and extrusion coatings business for undisclosed terms. The deal does not include the coil and extrusion coatings businesses of B...

26 Sep 2008

New Bio-imaging Mass Spectrometry Techniques Looks at Complex Biological Systems

Understanding biology at the systems level is difficult, especially when studying complex specimens like tissue slices or communities of organisms in a biofilm. Scientists must be able to identify, quantify and locate the molecules present in the samples.

26 Sep 2008

MIT Solves 100-Year Old Fluid Mechanic Problem

Now, in work that could lead to ways of controlling the effect with potential impacts on fuel efficiency and more, MIT scientists and colleagues have reported new mathematical and experimental work for predicting where that aerodynamic separation will occur. The research solves "a century-old problem in the field of fluid mechanics"

26 Sep 2008

Argonne Scientists Keeps Pressure on Metal-Organic Frameworks (MOF)

Scientists at U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National laboratory are putting the pressure on metal-organic frameworks (MOF). In MOF materials, metal ions can be connected by organic molecules to form scaffold...

26 Sep 2008

New Graphene Material Set to Improve Nanoelectronics and Energy Storage

A new "graphene-based" material that helps solve the structure of graphite oxide and could lead to other potential discoveries of the one-atom thick substance called graphene, which has applications in nanoelec...

26 Sep 2008