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New Facility for Development of High-Tech Electrical Systems

The University of Manchester and Rolls-Royce have unveiled a new £1 million experimental facility, which will boost the development of high-tech electrical systems for planes, ships and energy generation. It com...

27 Apr 2007

BHP Billiton Secure Bauxite Supply from Guinea

BHP Billiton today announced the acquisition of a 33.3 per cent interest in Global Alumina’s Sangaredi Refinery Project in Guinea, West Africa, for a consideration of US$140 million. The project comprises the d...

27 Apr 2007

UK Bioenergy Consortium Receive Multi Million Pound Funding for the Next 4 Years

Aston University led a successful, multi-million pound bid to continue the UK’s largest Bioenergy R&D consortium, SUPERGEN Bioenergy, for a further four years. The EPSRC-funded £6.4 million continuati...

27 Apr 2007

Ceram Helps Prevent Tile Slip Accidents and Injuries

Slips ups happen all the time, in fact in 2006, injuries caused by slipping and tripping accounted for 36% of the total number of injuries in the UK. The impact on businesses is significant as, in 23% of cases, those sli...

27 Apr 2007

Nylon Corp and NaturalNano Team up to Commercialise Nylon Nanocomposites

NaturalNano, Inc., a materials science company, today announced the signing of a Joint Development Agreement with Nylon Corporation of America, Inc. (NYCOA), a leader in the nylon polymerization and compounding industry....

27 Apr 2007

Radici Plastics to Commence Operations in China This Month

Radici Novacips, a RadiciGroup company operating in the plastics market, is starting up RadiciPlastics (Suzhou) Co., Ltd. this month in Suzhou, China (in Jiangsu province, about 80 Km northwest of Shanghai). This will...

27 Apr 2007

Structured Materials to Develop Chalcogenide CVD Deposition Tool for Non-Volatile Memory

Structured Materials Industries, Inc. (SMI) announced that it has been awarded a Phase I SBIR by the National Science Foundation to develop a high throughput, large area, Chemical Vapor Deposition (CVD) tool for the prod...

27 Apr 2007

ExxonMobil Increase Capacity for High Capacity Polyalphaolefins

ExxonMobil Chemical today announced the completion of a debottleneck project at the Beaumont Synthetics plant that increases by 40 percent the capacity to produce SpectraSyn Ultra™ High VI high viscosity polyalphao...

27 Apr 2007

Travel Bursaries for Students Attending Materials and Austceram 2007

The Australian Ceramic Society is offering several bursaries for full time students who are presenting a poster or a paper on ceramics related subject at Materials and Austceram 2007 International Conference. The confere...

27 Apr 2007

Advances in Surface Hardening of Stainless Steels and Other Structural Alloys Conference

Technology. Opportunity. Value. Join us to learn about recent developments in surface hardening process, performance and properties with the world’s foremost experts in industry, academia and government. The Ad...

From ASM International 27 Apr 2007

Advances in Surface Hardening of Stainless Steels and Other Structural Alloys Conference

From ASM International 27 Apr 2007

Sandia, A Step Closer to Achieving High Yield Nuclear Fusion

An electrical circuit that should carry enough power to produce the long-sought goal of controlled high-yield nuclear fusion and, equally important, do it every 10 seconds, has undergone extensive preliminary experiments...

26 Apr 2007

New Materials for Spintronic Devices

An interdisciplinary group of scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory has devised methods to make a new class of electronic devices based on a property of electrons known as &quot...

26 Apr 2007

American Superconductor Receive Canadian Wind Farm Component Order

American Superconductor Corporation, a leading energy technologies company, announced another order for its D-VAR(R) reactive compensation product to meet grid interconnection standards for wind farms. Delivery of the...

26 Apr 2007

The Environmental Impact of Food Packaging Waste Can be Minimized

The impact on our environment from food packaging waste can be minimized by prudently selecting materials and following established regulatory guidelines, yet the primary purpose must continue to be maintaining safe, who...

26 Apr 2007

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The Current State of the Global Semiconductor Market

The global semiconductor market has entered an exciting period. Demand for chip technology is both driving the industry as well as hindering it, with current chip shortages predicted to last for some time. Current trends will likely shape the future of the industry, which is set to continue to show

How are Graphene Batteries Made?

The primary distinction between graphene-based batteries and solid-state batteries lies in the composition of either electrode. Although the cathode is commonly changed, carbon allotropes can also be employed in fabricating anodes.

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

In recent years, the IoT is rapidly being introduced into almost all sectors, but it has particular importance in the EV industry.

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New Facility for Development of High-Tech Electrical Systems

BHP Billiton Secure Bauxite Supply from Guinea

UK Bioenergy Consortium Receive Multi Million Pound Funding for the Next 4 Years

Ceram Helps Prevent Tile Slip Accidents and Injuries

Nylon Corp and NaturalNano Team up to Commercialise Nylon Nanocomposites

Radici Plastics to Commence Operations in China This Month

Structured Materials to Develop Chalcogenide CVD Deposition Tool for Non-Volatile Memory

ExxonMobil Increase Capacity for High Capacity Polyalphaolefins

Travel Bursaries for Students Attending Materials and Austceram 2007

Advances in Surface Hardening of Stainless Steels and Other Structural Alloys Conference

Advances in Surface Hardening of Stainless Steels and Other Structural Alloys Conference

Sandia, A Step Closer to Achieving High Yield Nuclear Fusion

New Materials for Spintronic Devices

American Superconductor Receive Canadian Wind Farm Component Order

The Environmental Impact of Food Packaging Waste Can be Minimized

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Reshaping Metallographic Sample Preparation

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

Overcoming Challenges and Perfecting Techniques for Accurate XRF Analysis

ultraWAVE 3: Single reaction chamber technology

The SF-10 Laboratory Pump: Key Features for Fluid Handling Excellence

Densito Range Handheld Density Meters

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The Current State of the Global Semiconductor Market

How are Graphene Batteries Made?

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

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Reshaping Metallographic Sample Preparation

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

Overcoming Challenges and Perfecting Techniques for Accurate XRF Analysis

1Cost-Effective and Environmentally Benign Aluminum-Ion Battery

2Lithium Recovery from Spent LFP-NMC Batteries via Atmospheric Water Leaching

3Atomic-Scale Platinum Clusters for Efficient Catalysis

4Improving Lithium-Sulfur Battery Performance Using a Red Algae-Derived Polysaccharide Binder

5Upcycling Plastic Waste into High-Value Macromolecules

6New Partnership Delivers Unprecedented Efficiency for High-Throughput Material Discovery

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