Australian scientists have produced a new two-dimensional material they believe could revolutionise the electronics market with thinner, faster and lighter gadgets. Silicon chips have reached their limit in terms of speed and ability to ...
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Pick up your smartphone. Touch its screen. It's smooth, crystal-clear, and amazingly resilient. Chances are your smartphone is protected by a sheet of Corning Gorilla Glass. But what exactly is this Gorilla Glass? How is it fabricated and ...
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Pound for pound, spider silk is one of the strongest materials known: Research by MIT’s Markus Buehler has helped explain that this strength arises from silk’s unusual hierarchical arrangement of protein building blocks. Now ...
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Bob Wolf, Alliance LLC vice president, doesn't believe everything he reads. Manufacturers claim they can swap out rare earth elements for cheaper, more accessible materials, while some miners insist they can fill every gap in the rare earth ...
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The true hurdle of solar technology is being able to produce solar cells efficiently and at low cost. The present world technology doesn’t make solar cell production a bargain, but a new prototype by researchers at Stanford University ...
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Boosted by the luxury sector and recognised as THE show for premium raw materials, the 23rd edition of the LE CUIR A PARIS show closed this Friday 21 September on an optimistic note. The first impression from exhibitors was that attendance ...
Westpak has formed a new material analysis division for evaluating materials utilized in products and packaging specified by the life science and medical device industries. The company uses specialized equipment for the evaluation of ...
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Bausch + Lomb, a provider of ophthalmic surgical devices and instruments, has introduced daily disposable contact lens, Biotrue ONEday. Bausch + Lomb global vision care president Sheila Hopkins said Biotrue ONEday lenses feature a new ...
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Material manufacturer in Italy, Ritrama has announced the launch of its new bi-oriented 50μ clear coex polyolefin film on a glassine liner. The new Globalflex can be applied for home and personal care products and is said to be ...
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AIXTRON SE announced a new MOCVD system order from existing customer Jilin University China.The contract is for one CCS reactor in a 3x2-inch wafer configuration,which will be dedicated to the growth of gallium nitride materials for UV and ...
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Top ten sustainable textile trends, with the potential to influence eco thinking of the future highlighted by WGSN Materials team: 1. Compress fibres to produce new eco materials 2. Luxury unwaste redefines recycling 3. Changing the ...
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If you asked for three words to sum up Britain in the 21st century, a pessimist might come up with 'lonely', 'busy' and 'aging'. Government figures indicate the number of single-person households is increasing by more than 160,000 a year, ...
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(i)National Development Zones 1.Urumqi Economic and Technological Development Zone It was approved by the State Council on August 25, 1994 as a national development zone. The Zone covers a planned area of 16.84 sq. km. We put the Zone ...
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III . Investment i. Policy and Administrative Rules Catalogue of Related Laws Foreign Trade Law of the People's Republic of China Customs Law of the People's Republic of China Law of the People's Republic of China on Import and ...
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The Spanish supplier of quartz and natural stone surfaces, Cosentino,is presently building a new plant in Cantoria to make its new ultra-compact material, Dekton. This product contains a variety of undisclosed inorganic components and is to ...
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