Topological insulators are the key to future spintronics technologies. EPFL scientists have unraveled how these strange materials work, overcoming one of the biggest obstacles on the way to next-generation applications. Spintronics is an ...
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Graphene—the thinnest and strongest known material in the universe and a formidable conductor of electricity and heat – gets many of its amazing properties from the fact that it occupies only two dimensions: It has length and ...
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While many believe that the key to producing the next generation of chips lies in developing better manufacturing techniques for nanomaterials rather than just creating new nanomaterials, there are others who simply can't resist the ...
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Avrupa Minerals Ltd. is pleased to announce that the Company has received favorable geochemical results from rock sampling at three different projects in southern Portugal. The projects include the Marateca and Sines licenses in the Iberian ...
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Specialty metal and chemical products firm 5N Plus Inc of Montreal, Quebec, Canada has entered into a full and final settlement agreement with Florinvest SA, Heresford Ltd, Metals Corp SCRL and S.R.I.W. SA, which are all former shareholders ...
Tags: Electrical, Electronics
To meet the growing demand for gallium in LED manufacturing in North-East Asia, specialty metal and chemical products firm 5N Plus Inc of Montreal, Quebec, Canada is to invest in a new gallium chemicals facility to be located in South ...
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For first-quarter 2013, 5N Plus Inc of Montreal, Quebec, Canada, a producer of specialty metal and chemical products, has reported revenue of $118.4m, down 8% on $128.6m last quarter and 27% on $162.2m a year ago following a trend of ...
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Biopharmaceutical company Actinium Pharmaceuticals has received notice of patent allowance for an application covering the treatment of metastatic solid cancers with alpha emitting isotopes. The patent application 'Alpha Emitting ...
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BASF Coatings Japan Ltd. has been granted a patent for a method of forming a metallic tone glitter paint film comprised of applying a first base metallic paint for providing a sense of glitter with a metallic tone to a base material, the ...
For fourth-quarter 2012, 5N Plus Inc of Montreal, Quebec, Canada, a producer of specialty metal and chemical products, has reported revenue of $128.6m, up 6.5% on $120.7m last quarter but down 13.9% on $149.4m a year ago. Revenue for ...
U.S. 8,192,603 B2 BASF Coatings GmbH has been granted a patent for an aqueous coating composition comprised of a metal oxide selected from the group consisting of bismuth oxide, vanadium oxide, manganese oxide, cobalt oxide, zinc ...
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Aegis Lightwave Inc of Woburn, MA, USA and Photop Technologies Inc of Fuzhou, China (both subsidiaries of II-VI Inc of Saxonburg, PA, USA) have merged under the Photop brand identity. Founded in 2003 through a merger of four firms ...
Tags: Aegis Lightwave, Photop Technologies, Photop brand identity
Imagine for a moment that you have a credit card with a limit of a few trillion dollars but with one caveat: you need to use those funds exclusively to provide for your family. It sounds easy, until you realize your “family” is ...
Tags: China, Canada, Metallurgy, Mineral Energy
After a fiscal year in which it was hit by slumping metal prices and floods in Thailand, II-VI reports mixed demand trends. The diversified optics and materials company II-VI has reported sales of $534.6 million for its fiscal year ...
5N Plus Inc of Montreal, Quebec, Canada, a producer of specialty metal and chemical products, says that its new Malaysian recycling facility is now operational. Located in the Kulim High Technology Park (one of Malaysia's highest-profile ...
Tags: 5N Plus, chemical products, recycling, recycling services