Experimentalists searching for strong structural materials have established that nanocrystalline metals, which have average grain sizes smaller than 100 nanometers, are stronger, harder and more resistant to fatigue than coarser-grained ...
Tags: A*STAR, atomic scale, low strains, molecular dynamics simulations
U.S. researchers say they used epithelial stem cells to regenerate different cell types of human skin and hair follicles that may help those going bald. Dr. Xiaowei "George" Xu, associate professor of pathology and laboratory medicine ...
Carboline Company has released Carbotherm 551, an advanced next generation insulative coating. This water-based epoxy insulative coating has multiple uses from protecting workers from burns on hot surfaces to thermal insulation. It ...
Furniture builder System 180 cooperated with Potsdam School of Design Thinking to develop a functionally and formally independent programme specifically for creative teamwork. The Design Thinking-Line (DT-Line), named after the renowned ...
Tags: DT-Line, SYSTEM 180, HPL, School of Design Thinking
System 180 has represented a universal construction kit system that can be used for furnishings as well as architectural tasks for more than three decades. This year, the Berlin manufacturer now is represented at imm cologne for the first ...
Tags: System 180, manufacturer, RackPod, DT-Line
A Hydraulic ram cylinder is a mechanical device for trading power by the usage of high drive oil acting against the surface area of a chamber inside the chamber. A weight driven barrel gives immediate constrain in one center point in either ...
Tags: Hydraulic ram cylinder, machinery
BNP Media brands including Floor Trends, Floor Covering Installer, TILE, Contemporary Stone & Tile Design and Stone World will sponsor several events at the International Surface Event next week at the Mandalay Bay Convention Center in Las ...
PPG Industries’ protective and marine coatings (PMC) business was awarded a five-year contract by the U.S. Navy’s Military Sealift Command (MSC) to continue providing coatings, solvents and technical services to its global fleet ...
Tags: Contract Renewal, coatings
"Cool it!" That's a prime directive for microprocessor chips and a promising new solution to meeting this imperative is in the offing. Researchers with the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)'s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley ...
Tags: Consumer Electronics, Electronics
Swiss scientists have uncovered the mechanism by which novel, revolutionary solar cells based on lead iodide perovskite light-absorbing semiconductor transfer electrons along their surface. The finding shows these devices constitute a new ...
Tags: Electrical, Electronics, Solar Cell, Energy, Solar
Traditional photovoltaic solar cells have an inherent limit on the efficiency at which they can convert sunlight into energy. This limit—based on the bandgap of the material used and known as the Shockley-Queisser limit—is about ...
Tags: Thermophotovoltaic, solar cells, Nature Nanotechnology, low-bandgap
The first warning letters of the year issued by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration were delivered to a seafood processing facility in Hawaii and a dairy operator in Pennsylvania. A warning letter is FDA’s principal means of ...
Tags: FDA, HACCP, violation, Nobuo T.Hawaii
From the first quarter of 2014, Plastique will be manufacturing thermoformed pulp products with paper smooth surfaces on both sides. These products will be manufactured under the name ‘Fibrepak’, a sub-brand of Plastique. ...
Tags: Plastique, Fibrepak, Cure-In-The-Mould, Packaging Innovations
UK-based Domino has extended its continuous ink jet (CIJ) black inks range with the launch of three new inks, 2BK026, 2BK030 and 2BK028, for CIJ A-Series printers. According to the company, the new inks have been developed specifically ...
Tags: Packaging Inks, continuous ink jet
Oxford Instruments is offering an upgrade option for its ALD equipment to apply a bias voltage to the substrate, adding further control of the energy at the wafer surface in order to tune the properties of the deposited film. While scaling ...