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  • Using Carbon Nanotubes to Detect and Repair Cracks in Polymer Composites
    News - 1 Oct 2007
    Adding even a small amount of carbon nanotubes can go a long way toward enhancing the strength, integrity, and safety of plastic materials widely used in engineering applications, according to a new...
  • Rocket Powered Prosthetic Arm
    News - 22 Aug 2007
    Combine a mechanical arm with a miniature rocket motor: The result is a prosthetic device that is the closest thing yet to a bionic arm. A prototype of this radical design has been successfully...
  • New Understanding of How Bubbles Form in Hot Liquids
    News - 21 Aug 2007
    Chemical engineers have discovered a fundamental flaw in the conventional view of how liquids form bubbles that grow and turn into vapors, which takes place in everything from industrial processes to...
  • Lite-On Technology Offers EUR 277 Million to Acquire World's Largest Handset Casing Manufacturer
    News - 14 Aug 2007
    Taipei, Lite-On Technology Corporation announces a public cash tender offer (the “Tender Offer”) for the world’s largest handset casing company, Perlos Corporation. Perlos is...
  • Increasing the Efficiency of Converting Coal to Liquid Energy
    News - 5 Jul 2007
    From Al Gore's "An Inconvenient Truth" to heated Congressional debates about federal tax incentives for new alternative fuels, the issue of coal's place in supplying America's...
  • Generating Power from Heat and Sound
    News - 5 Jun 2007
    University of Utah physicists developed small devices that turn heat into sound and then into electricity. The technology holds promise for changing waste heat into electricity, harnessing solar...
  • Silicone Playing a Big Role in Automotive Safety
    News - 1 May 2007
    As the number of cars and trucks around the world rises from 750 million to an estimated 1.1 billion by 2020, drivers and passengers will rely on increasingly sophisticated systems not only to protect...
  • Secrets of Water Revealed
    News - 6 Mar 2007
    It's essential to all life, and numerous research papers are published about it every year. Yet there are still secrets to reveal about water, that seemingly simple compound we know as...
  • Packaging Facts from INCPEN
    News - 24 Nov 2006
    Packaging industry in the supply chain The amount of packaging used in the UK has increased by less than 4% since 1999 (8.5 to 8.8 million tonnes, in 2004 – excluding wood). This increase...
  • Stronger, Lighter and Cheaper Alloys
    News - 31 Oct 2006
    Car engines that consume less energy and can keep running on low oil, lead-free plumbing fixtures, and tanks that are light enough to be airlifted, but are just as rugged as the much heavier...

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