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NASA Awards 4.65 Million Hours Supercomputing Time for Advanced Research

NASA has awarded approximately 4.65 million hours of supercomputing time to researchers. The computing time may help scientists solve some of the most challenging research problems involving climate variability, combusti...

8 Mar 2006

Phelps Dodge Sells High Performance Conductor Business to International Wire Group

Phelps Dodge has announced that it has agreed to sell Phelps Dodge High Performance Conductors of SC & GA, Inc. (HPC) to International Wire Group (IWG). Under the agreement, IWG will purchase the stock of HPC, includ...

8 Mar 2006

Aluminum Overtakes Iron as Second Most Used Automotive Material

Global aluminum use in automotive applications continues to grow, according to a new report commissioned by The Aluminum Association, Inc., and when compared to use of other metals, aluminum has now exceeded iron to beco...

8 Mar 2006

INTRINSIC Semiconductor Announces Commercial Shipments of 100mm Silicon Carbide Wafers

INTRINSIC Semiconductor has commenced commercial shipments of silicon carbide (SiC) wafers completely free of micropipes, as well as 100mm (4 inch) diameter SiC wafers. Both actions will benefit current customer applicat...

8 Mar 2006

Scientists Redefine Spin Current Concept

A group of physicists headed by CAS scientists questioned the validity of the conventional definition of spin current, and proposed a new one. Their work was published by the US journal Physical Review Letters. The re...

8 Mar 2006

Cargill Shows Strong Growth in Biobased Polyols

Cargill is now selling commercial volumes of biobased polyols to large flexible polyurethane foam manufacturers in the automotive, furniture and bedding industries, becoming the leading biobased polyol maker for the flex...

8 Mar 2006

Boeing Forecasts Asia-Pacific Market at $770 Billion Over Next 20 Years

Boeing detailed its Current Market Outlook for the Asia-Pacific region today, forecasting a market for about 7,200 new airplanes worth $770 billion over the next 20 years. Over the forecast period, Asia-Pacific will rema...

8 Mar 2006

BHP Billiton Signs Heads of Agreement With Chugoku Electric

BHP Billiton, together with the other participants in the North West Shelf Venture, has signed an unconditional and binding heads of agreement with Chugoku Electric Power Co., Inc. for the long-term supply of liquefied n...

8 Mar 2006

Strategic Partnership Between Arcelor and SNI for the Development of Sonasid, Morroco

On 3 March 2006, Arcelor, Société Nationale d'Investissement (SNI, Morocco) and the reference shareholders of Sonasid (MAMDA-MCMA, Axa Assurances Maroc, RMA-Watanya, CIMR, and Attijariwafabank) have signed ...

8 Mar 2006

Alcoa Announces Production Started on Alumar Aluminum Smelter Expansion in Brazil

Alcoa has announced that construction on the expansion of its Alumar smelter in Sao Luis, Maranhao, Brazil, has been completed and start-up of full production has begun. The expansion will add 63,000 mtpy of aluminum, br...

8 Mar 2006

X-ray Backscatter Imaging May Help Find Defects in Space Shuttle Foam

Joe Gray picked up 18-inches of space shuttle foam and turned the inch-thick sample on its side to show the layers within the foam. The spray-on foam that insulates and protects the space shuttle’s super-cold e...

8 Mar 2006

NIST Expands Crystal Structure Library

Much of science these days depends on "black (or beige) boxes," scientific instruments that invisibly analyze data and then, voilá, identify the chemistry and/or structure of a sample. While scientists and...

From NIST Standard Reference Materials 8 Mar 2006

Hydrogen Fuel That Power Laptops, Cell Phones and Other Digital Equipment a Step Closer

Chemists at UCLA and the University of Michigan report an advance toward the goal of cars that run on hydrogen rather than gasoline. While the U.S. Department of Energy estimates that practical hydrogen fuel will require...

8 Mar 2006

Enhancement of Superconductors Under Hydrostatic Pressure

Nobody completely understands superconductors. So fathom how James S. Schilling, Ph.D., led a team that makes the phenomenon work better. Schilling, a professor of physics in Arts & Sciences at Washington Univers...

8 Mar 2006

Researchers Make the Speediest Measurement Ever of the Motion of Atomic Nuclei in Molecules

In the last decades there has been a revolution in measuring time-dependent molecular motion, thanks to improvements in laser technology. One major step forward were femtosecond pulses; they are laser flashes lasting onl...

8 Mar 2006

Materials Science News

NASA Awards 4.65 Million Hours Supercomputing Time for Advanced Research

Phelps Dodge Sells High Performance Conductor Business to International Wire Group

Aluminum Overtakes Iron as Second Most Used Automotive Material

INTRINSIC Semiconductor Announces Commercial Shipments of 100mm Silicon Carbide Wafers

Scientists Redefine Spin Current Concept

Cargill Shows Strong Growth in Biobased Polyols

Boeing Forecasts Asia-Pacific Market at $770 Billion Over Next 20 Years

BHP Billiton Signs Heads of Agreement With Chugoku Electric

Strategic Partnership Between Arcelor and SNI for the Development of Sonasid, Morroco

Alcoa Announces Production Started on Alumar Aluminum Smelter Expansion in Brazil

X-ray Backscatter Imaging May Help Find Defects in Space Shuttle Foam

NIST Expands Crystal Structure Library

Hydrogen Fuel That Power Laptops, Cell Phones and Other Digital Equipment a Step Closer

Enhancement of Superconductors Under Hydrostatic Pressure

Researchers Make the Speediest Measurement Ever of the Motion of Atomic Nuclei in Molecules

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Insights into the Role of Benchtop NMR in Biofluid Analysis with Philippe Wilson

Particle Size Analysis: Focus on the Essentials with the New Camsizer S1

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High-Resolution Industrial X-Ray CT Scanner

The TABER V-5 Stiffness Tester

The PinAAcle 900 Spectrometer Series: Cutting-Edge Precision for Atomic Absorption

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The Current State of the Global Semiconductor Market

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Insights into the Role of Benchtop NMR in Biofluid Analysis with Philippe Wilson

Particle Size Analysis: Focus on the Essentials with the New Camsizer S1

The Inaugural STEM Marketing Awards – An Interview with Alexandra Balazs, Managing Director at Prolific North

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2Active Lamb Wave Energy Analysis of Debonding Defects in Polymer-Rubber Structures

3Chemical ‘Chameleon’ Boosts Rare Earth Purification

4Revealing the Underlying Mechanism of Battery Self-Discharge

5New Material Removes Toxic Metals from Water

6Sustainable Ammonia Production Using Copper-Based Catalysts

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