Alcoa (NYSE:AA) announced today that it was named as one of the most sustainable corporations in the world in the fifth annual Global 100 ranking of the top role models in sustainable business practices, during the World...
Physicists were able to generate magnetic areas
which promise to overcome the obstacles of today's data storage technology.
Using a highly focused ion beam, i.e. fast charged atoms, they irradiated an
iron-aluminum alloy in such a way that only the treated zones became ferromagnetic.
In the electronics industry, thin metal films are deposited on silicon wafers with a sputter gun, which uses energetic ions – atoms with a positive charge – to knock the metal atoms off a target. Scientists a...
For the eighth time global specialty chemicals supplier Cognis has given its Innovation Award to employees who developed exceptionally successful and creative products. This internal award recognizes innovative products ...
The National Institute of Standards
and Technology (NIST) has issued a new standard - a certified reference
material - to aid in the detection and measurement of the potent carcinogen
hexavalent chromium in soil.
Researchers at the National
Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have discovered that a carefully
built magnetic sandwich that interleaves layers of a magnetic alloy with a few
nanometers of silver “spacer” has dramatically enhanced sensitivity, 400-fold improvement in some cases.
Dow Corning
Corporation's Electronics group today announced the worldwide availability
of its DOW CORNING® TC-2030 A&B Thermally Conductive Adhesive for use
in automotive electronics, LED assembly and in the computer market.
There is little doubt that composite materials are seeing widespread usage within many industries, from aerospace to wind energy. As demand for more composites applications increases in the coming years, composite materi...
Novelis announced today
that effective March 26, 2009, it will cease the production of alumina at its
Ouro Preto unit. In future, the plant will purchase alumina through third-parties.
Other activities related to the facility, including electric power generation
and the production of primary aluminum metal, will continue unaffected.
A team of scientists at the U.S.
Department of Energy's (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory, in collaboration
with researchers from the University of Delaware and Yeshiva University, has
developed a new catalyst that could make ethanol-powered fuel cells feasible.
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