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Changing Thermal Conductivity to Improve the Performance of Silicon Nitride Components

Enhancing the thermal conductivity of β-Si 3N 4 ceramics Silicon nitride ceramics are important engineering materials due to their excellent properties such as fracture toughness, wear resistance and high tempera...

16 Jan 2006

Nanoscopic Coloured Coatings for Durable Interior Applications

Coloured transparent organic-inorganic hybrid coatings Interior design is set to utilise a new era in coloured materials if a team of researchers from Mexico have their way. The researchers have developed hard, coloured...

16 Jan 2006

Improved Photolithography Techniques for Electronic Circuitry of the Future

Fabrication of nanometer scale patterns with polymer Langmuir-Blodgett films Modern electronics demand constant improvements in power and speed. Consequently, the circuitry becomes increasingly complex with a trend to...

16 Jan 2006

BOE Hydis Develop LCD Screen with Superior Outdoor Readability

BOE HYDIS has successfully developed a new mobile TFT-LCD with superior outdoor readability under bright sunlit conditions. The new product is applied with ‘AFFS-Outdoor’ technology that significantly enha...

11 Jan 2006

Space Cannon Selects Cree LEDs for All New LED Lighting Systems

Cree, Inc. has announced that major lighting designer and manufacturer Space Cannon VH S.p.A. has signed an agreement to purchase approximately $5.4 million of XLamp® power LEDs, among the industry’s brightest ...

11 Jan 2006

Panasonic and Toray to Build World's Largest Plasma Display Plant

Panasonic and diversified chemical group Toray Industries Inc. today announced plans to build a new plasma display panel (PDP) manufacturing facility in Japan. The facility will be the fourth plant of their PDP joint ven...

11 Jan 2006

Autodesk Completes Acquisition of Alias

Autodesk, Inc. has announced that it has completed the acquisition of Alias for cash consideration of $197 million USD. On October 4, 2005, Autodesk announced a definitive agreement to acquire Alias -- a leading develope...

11 Jan 2006

Ashland Introduces New Mobile Laboratory for the Foundry Industry

A new mobile laboratory, Express Lab, featuring specific capabilities for the foundry industry, is being introduced by Ashland Casting Solutions, a business group of Ashland Specialty Chemical, a division of Ashland Inc....

11 Jan 2006

New Technique for Crystallising Proteins

Scientists from Imperial College London and the University of Surrey have developed a new technique for crystallising proteins, a discovery which could help speed up the development of new medicines and treatments. C...

11 Jan 2006

Bell Labs Receives Technical GRAMMY Award

Bell Labs, the research and development arm of Lucent Technologies, has announced it has been awarded a Technical GRAMMY® Award by The Recording Academy® for its outstanding technical contributions to the recordi...

11 Jan 2006

Whitehouse Scientific Increases Online Sales

Whitehouse Scientific has introduced an enhanced secure ordering and payment system on its website. With sales growing 20% year on year, the new system is designed to meet increasing worldwide demand for credit card purc...

11 Jan 2006

New DTI-Funded Project - Built Environment Action on Waste Awareness and Resource Efficiency

A new DTI-funded project called BE AWARE - Built Environment Action on Waste Awareness and Resource Efficiency - aims to help construction product manufacturers to make more efficient use of materials and processes by in...

10 Jan 2006

Boeing-Led Team Demonstrates New High-Speed Data Technology

An industry team led by Boeing has demonstrated a new technology that dramatically increases data transfer speeds in tactical aircraft, making them more effective in meeting the demands of the network-centric operational...

10 Jan 2006

Gaiker Joint Agreement with National Centre for Research into Plastic and Rubber

The Gaiker-IK4 Technological Centre has signed an agreement with the National Centre for Research into Plastic & Rubber of Venezuela (CNPC). The stated aim of the CNPC, currently in the process of being constitute...

10 Jan 2006

BASF Share Buy Back at 1,435 Million Euros in 2005

BASF bought back shares for €1,435 million in 2005. A total of 26.06 million shares were bought back last year at an average price of €55.05. This corresponds to 4.82 percent of the company’s share capita...

10 Jan 2006