The Volkswagen Up! hybrid will inherit the ground-breaking diesel plug-in technology from the futuristic XL1 to make it one of the most fuel-efficient cars on the market. Set to launch by the end of 2014, UK publication Autocar reports ...
Tags: Volkswagen, Hybrid, Xl1 Diesel Plug-in Tech
The first images and details of the all-electric Volkswagen e-Golf have been revealed ahead of its debut at next month’s Geneva motor show. First seen on Czech website autoforum, the Volkswagen e-Golf will be powered by a 26.5kWh ...
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Researchers based in South Korea and France have developed gallium nitride (GaN) fin field-effect transistors (FinFETs) with the lowest claimed subthreshold swing for nitride semiconductor metal-insulator-semiconductor FETs (MISFETs) ...
ZC&R Coatings for Optics (ZC&R), an Abrisa Technologies company is pleased to announce the publication of their new High Performance Thin Film Optical Coatings Technical Capabilities brochure. This highly informative brochure can be ...
BioteQ Environmental Technologies Inc has won its first testing contract for the company’s mobile Sulf-IX pilot plant with an industrial company. The test work will be carried out at a customer site in the US and will focus on the ...
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Ube Industries, Ltd. announced that it will cease production of caprolactam (CPL) at the Sakai Factory in Japan. The decision was made today at a meeting of the Board of Directors and will result in the company recording an extraordinary ...
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The Netherlands - A new theatre in Roermond, south eastern Holland, has decided that energy saving is the way forward - and has been fitted out with entirely LED fixtures. ECI Cultuurfabriek is a converted former chemical factory which ...
Tags: LED, LED fixtures, LED luminaires
UK - Inaugurated in 1886, the old People's Palace, as it was formerly known, was originally built to provide cultural activities to its local population but tragically burned down in 1931. Rebuilt in 1936 to the west of its original site, ...
Tags: QMUL, Stage Electrics, lighting, audio
Birefringence, a property of a crystalline material describes how within the material there are two distinct indices of refraction. Birefringent materials are used to create polarising filters or interference colours. Krystian Roleder, ...
NETZSCH INSTRUMENT NORTH AMERICA, LLC (NETZSCH) and the U.S. DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY’S (DOE) NATIONAL RENEWABLE ENERGY LABOROATORY (NREL) are pleased to announce a joint collaboration to develop an instrument designed to test the ...
Loba Chemie was a venture started over 35 years ago to deal in Biochemical’ s and Reagents for life science research and other specialty chemicals. Loba Chemie today is one of the forerunners in the Indian chemical industry. In a ...
The Hiden HPR-60 Mass Spectrometer is a research tool conceived specifically for direct analysis of ions, radicals and neutral species in reactive processes, and will be of interest to researchers in the fields of plasma and transient ...
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Running the world's most popular website, Google engineers know a thing or two about keeping a site responsive under very high demand. In the latest issue of the ACM (Association for Computer Machinery) monthly magazine, Google reveals a ...
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The modular concept of the brand-new DEA 288 Epsilon by Netzsch allows for the study of the UV curing behavior of adhesives, paints, inks and coatings. Dielectric Analysis (DEA) can be used for nearly all thermosetting resins – not ...
Tags: UV Cure Monitoring, Adhesives, Paints, DEA 288 Epsilon
The modular concept of the new Dielectric Analyzer DEA 288 Epsilon by NETZSCH Analyzing & Testing allows for the study of the curing behavior of thermosetting resins and composites. It can be successfully used not only in the laboratory ...
Tags: Cure Monitoring, Thermosetting Resins, Fiber-Reinforced Plastics