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Wacker Silicones to Release New Compound for Vacuum Processing Composites

WACKER SILICONES will launch an innovative silicone rubber compound that simplifies the production of vacuum bags for large molded parts.

6 Aug 2008

Selig Sealing Products Acquires Leading Producer of Foil and Plastic Innerseals

Selig Sealing Products, Inc., a leading manufacturer of closure lining materials, announced today that it has acquired the assets of Unipac, a leading producer of foil and plastic innerseals for packaging applications, f...

6 Aug 2008

LED Thin Film Technology Developers Receive Presidential Visit

The President of Germany, Horst Köhler, and his wife Eva Luise Köhler, accompanied by Minister of State Dr. Beate Merk, today visited the winners of the 2007 German Future Prize. Dr. Klaus Streubel, Dr. Stefan ...

6 Aug 2008

Quartz and Silica Tubing Now Available through Goodfellow

The Technical Glass Company is able to supply a wide range of quartz/fused silica tubing that offers outstanding thermal properties, superior shock resistance, excellent optical transmission ranging from ultraviolet to infrared, and good electrical and corrosion performance.

From Goodfellow Ceramic & Glass 6 Aug 2008

General Dynamics Win $24.2 million Light Armored Vehicle Contract

General Dynamics Land Systems has been awarded a $24.2 million contract to produce 10 LAV-25 Light Armored Vehicles (LAVs), three LAV logistics vehicles and vehicle components for the United States Marine Corps (USMC) to...

6 Aug 2008

Zetasizer Nano Excels at Water Treatment Facility

The Zetasizer Nano particle characterization system from Malvern
Instruments has become an essential tool at a water treatment production
facility in the US.

5 Aug 2008

One Step Towards a Greater Insight into the Relationship Between Oil and Water

When oil and water are poured together they meet each other head-on to form a strong and rigid boundary between each other, says new research into how interactions between oil and water work, out this week in Physical Re...

5 Aug 2008

Black Solar Cells for a Greener Future

Solar cells of the future may look totally black to the human eye because they absorb light so efficiently. That's the promise of new research from an interdisciplinary team at the University of Virginia being funded by a new U.Va. Collaborative Sustainable Energy Seed Grant worth about $30,000.

5 Aug 2008

Size Does Matter in the Field of Medicine and Nanotechnology

A team of researchers led by Joseph DeSimone, Ph.D., Chancellor's Eminent Professor of Chemistry in UNC's College of Arts and Sciences and William R. Kenan, Jr. Distinguished Professor of Chemical Engineering at North Carolina State University, and Stephanie Gratton, a graduate student in DeSimone's lab, have demonstrated that nanoparticles designed with a specific shape, size and surface chemistry are taken up into cells and behave differently within cells depending on these attributes.

5 Aug 2008

New Alloy Composition Could Cut Costs for Petrochemical Industry

Oxide scales are supposed to protect alloys from extensive corrosion, but scientists at U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory have discovered metal nanoparticle chinks in this armor. Oxide scales...

5 Aug 2008

CRAIC Technologies Releases Latest Version of MINERVAT Software Package

CRAIC Technologies, a leading manufacturer of UV-visible-NIR microspectrometers, today released the newest version of it's MINERVAT microspectroscopy software package. This software is designed to collect, analyze an...

From CRAIC Technologies 5 Aug 2008

Combining Light Sensors and Electronics Made of Different Crystalline Materials

Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and the University of California at Berkeley have created the world's first all-integrated sensor circuit based on nanowire arrays, combining light sensors and electronics made of different crystalline materials. Their method can be used to reproduce numerous such devices with high uniformity.

5 Aug 2008

Device Allows for Testing at Virtually Any Loading Rate and Temperature

The University of Illinois Urbana Champaign has developed a novel testing device for understanding the tensile properties of single nanofibers. In addition to the ability to test a single nanofiber, the technology allows...

5 Aug 2008

FEI Announces Collaboration Enabling Scientists to Acquire High-Res TEM Images

FEI Company, a leading provider of high-resolution imaging and analysis systems, and Max Planck Institute (MPI) of Biochemistry, a leading biochemical research institution, announced today their collaboration on a correl...

5 Aug 2008

UK's ISIS Second Target Station Project Moved a Major Step Closer to Completion

The UK's ISIS Second Target Station Project moved a major step closer to completion today when the first neutrons were created in the ISIS Second Target Station. After five years of planning and construction, the first neutrons were detected by the Inter instrument at 1308 BST. ISIS, the world-renowned neutron facility at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory in Oxfordshire, is operated by the Science and Technology Facilities Council.

5 Aug 2008