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Basic Patent Granted for Hitachi Chemical’s CMP Slurry Based on Self-Activated Cerium Oxide Particles

Hitachi Chemical Co., Ltd. has obtained a basic patent of its CMP slurry which is based on self-activated cerium oxide particles. When manufacturing semiconductor devices, the slurry allows the unnecessary silicon oxide ...

25 Jan 2006

Glass Polymer Provides Perfect Fit for Perfume Pocket Spray

Puig Prestige Beauté needed to look no further than The Glass Polymer from Eastman Chemical to find the perfect material fit for completing the design of its “Pocket Spray” perfume container. Develope...

25 Jan 2006

DSM Sells Iodine Business

Royal DSM N.V., the Dutch chemicals group, and Sociedad Química y Minera de Chile S.A. (SQM), have signed and closed the sale of the DSM business unit Minera to SQM. DSM Minera is a business unit of the DSM Fine Che...

25 Jan 2006

Corning Expands Suite of Specialty Fiber Products

Corning Incorporated has announced the introduction of five new specialty optical fibers for use in display applications, fiber sensors and high power fiber lasers. Corning continues to build on its legacy of invention a...

25 Jan 2006

China to Build World's 1st ''Artificial Sun'' Experimental Device

A full superconducting experimental Tokamak fusion device, which aims to generate infinite, clean nuclear-fusion-based energy, will be built in March or April in Hefei, capital city of east China's Anhui Province. ...

25 Jan 2006

Ceradyne Receives $70 Million Ceramic Body Armor Order

Ceradyne, Inc. has announced the receipt of an order for its lightweight ceramic body armor in the amount of $70 million from the U.S. Army. This particular contract is for new designs developed to protect the side areas...

25 Jan 2006

Callaway Golf Rolls out New Golf Ball with Proprietary Core

Callaway Golf Company has announced the debut of an entirely new Big Bertha Golf Ball with a proprietary formulation that yields an ultra-low compression, highly-resilient core for very soft feel and more legendary Big B...

25 Jan 2006

Borealis and Borouge to Showcase State-of-the-Art Polyolefin Compounds

Borealis will showcase state-of-the-art polyolefin compounds solutions to visitors of Wire 2006, from April 24-28, 2006 in Düsseldorf, Germany (Messe Düsseldorf, Hall 10, Stand N10-D70). Together with Boroug...

From Borouge 25 Jan 2006

Boeing Plans New Intelligence Aircraft

Boeing has announced plans for a new 737 signals intelligence (SIGINT) aircraft that can be used for airborne intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance, and also advanced network centric communications. Boeing&#39...

25 Jan 2006

Ferroelectric Material Reveals Unexpected, Intriguing Behavior

In electronics-based technologies, metal-oxide compounds known as “relaxor ferroelectrics” often make up key circuit components due to their unique electrical behavior. They are good insulators and can sustai...

25 Jan 2006

AspenTech Launches New Generation of Applications for Heat Exchanger Design

Aspen Technology, Inc. has announced the availability of its new generation of applications for the design, rating and simulation of heat exchangers. Aspen Tasc+™, for shell & tube heat exchangers, and Aspen Ac...

25 Jan 2006

Alcan Signs Agreement to Supply Boeing 787 Dreamliner with Advanced Lightweight Aluminum Products

Alcan Rolled Products – Ravenswood, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Alcan Inc., has announced that it has signed a multi-year agreement with The Boeing Company to supply the aircraft manufacturer’s 787 Dreamline...

25 Jan 2006

Phase Diagram of Carbon at High Pressure and Temperature

A team based in Livermore has shed some light on the phase diagram of carbon at high pressure and temperature. In particular, the authors determined the solid/liquid and solid/solid phase boundaries for pressures up ...

25 Jan 2006

Pitt Researchers Develop Nanoscale Semiconductor Islands Small Enough to Hold Single Electrons

Scientists from the Max Planck Institute for Metals Research in Stuttgart, Germany and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, Massachusetts have simulated the atomistic details of how cracks propagate in...

25 Jan 2006

Nova Chemicals to Close US Polystyrene Plant

NOVA Chemicals Corporation today announced it plans to close its Chesapeake, Virginia, site in 2006. The plant has solid polystyrene production capacity of 300 million pounds (136 kilotonnes) per year and compounding cap...

24 Jan 2006