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Liquid Crystals Used For Real Time Differentiation of Embryonic Stem Cells

Liquid crystals, the same phase-shifting materials used to display information on cell phones, monitors and other electronic equipment, can also be used to report in real time on the differentiation of embryonic stem cel...

8 Mar 2006

Los Alamos Researchers Reveal Hidden Magnetism in Superconductivity

While studying a compound made of the elements cerium- rhodium-indium, researchers at Los Alamos National Laboratory and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign have discovered that a magnetic state can coexist wi...

8 Mar 2006

NIST Experimental Atomic Clock Uses Heavy Metal Ytterbium 'Pancakes'

Scientists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) working with Russian colleagues have significantly improved the design of optical atomic clocks that hold thousands of atoms in a lattice made of in...

From NIST Standard Reference Materials 8 Mar 2006

Henkel to Sell Rubber-to-Metal Bonding Chemicals Business to American Lord Corporation

Henkel KGaA is in the process of selling to Lord Corporation of Cary, N.C. its business with chemicals for bonding rubber to metal and other substrates. This Henkel Technologies business has so far been a non-core techno...

8 Mar 2006

Sono-Tek Announces New Ultrasonic Atomization Technology

Sono-Tek Corporation has announced that it is developing an entirely new generation of ultrasonic atomizing nozzles using advanced materials technology and unique new designs. A patent application covering these inventio...

From Sono-Tek Corporation 8 Mar 2006

Albemarle Improve Fire Safety of Wood-Plastic Composites and Plastic Lumber

Wood-plastic composites (WPC) and plastic lumber are quickly establishing themselves in the building and construction industry as superior alternatives to wood and other materials in decking, siding, and roofing applicat...

8 Mar 2006

Robots and Inflatable Conveyor Belts Set to Slash Farm Labour Costs

Robots are on the march again into the last bastion of labour intensive industry - farming and horticulture. Research engineers and horticulture specialists at the University of Warwick are working together to devise a s...

8 Mar 2006

Europeans Develop New Sensor Network Technology

Barrels of chemicals that ‘talk’ to each other to improve safety and smart shelves that automatically log inventory changes are just some of the ways businesses stand to benefit from new sensor network techno...

8 Mar 2006

University of Kent Launches New Spin-Out Developing Real-Time Embedded Systems-on-Chip (SoC)

The University of Kent has launched UltraSoC Technologies Ltd, a new spin-out company that is developing a technology platform for real-time embedded systems-on-chip (SoC). This ground-breaking technology has produced im...

8 Mar 2006

Spanish Researchers Develop New Substrate Material

The wood shavings from sawmills can be used to produce an organic substrate for use in intensive crop growth in containers. Moreover, this substrate has the advantage that it can be recycled and is more economic than oth...

8 Mar 2006

Manchester Scientists Create New Bio-Gel

Scientists at The University of Manchester have created a new type of ‘bio-gel’ which provides a pH neutral environment for culturing cells in 3D, as published in the journal Advanced Materials (March 2006). The gel ...

8 Mar 2006

Carbon Fiber Cars Could Solve Many Problems

Highways of tomorrow might be filled with lighter, cleaner and more fuel-efficient automobiles made in part from recycled plastics, lignin from wood pulp and cellulose. First, however, researchers at the Department of...

8 Mar 2006

Linde Make Offer to Acquire BOC Group

Linde AG, Wiesbaden/Germany, has agreed to make a pre-conditional offer to acquire the entire share capital of The BOC Group plc, Windlesham/UK, for 1,600 pence in cash per share. The board of directors of BOC intends to...

8 Mar 2006

Alcan to Spend $7m to Increase Amoured Cable Production Capacity

Alcan Inc. announced today that it will invest US$ 7 million in its Saint-Maurice facility to significantly increase the site’s hard alloy aluminum strip capacity for the construction and industrial markets. The im...

8 Mar 2006

Sandvik to Close Kanthal's Italian Wire Drawing Plant

As a consequence of the ongoing review of Sandvik Materials Technology’s wire drawing plants, it has been decided to phase out operations at the unit in Cinisello, Italy, within the Kanthal product area. This ac...

8 Mar 2006