As hemp makes a comeback in the U.S. after a decades-long ban on its cultivation, scientists are reporting that fibers from the plant can pack as much energy and power as graphene.Graphene is an allotrope of carbon, whose structure is ...
One of the fundamental challenges of battery technology is that lithium-ion batteries — by far the best general option for energy storage currently in wide commercial use — are intrinsically bulky and heavy. A new research ...
Tags: Electrical, Electronics, Supercapacitor, Copper Wires
Magnolia Solar Corp of Woburn, MA and Albany, NY, USA has entered into a letter of intent with Singapore-based Solar Silicon Resources Group Pte Ltd (SSRG) to acquire their assets and merge their business interests. Magnolia's subsidiary ...
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Food and drink researchers have found a new way to produce sparkling wine using magnetised yeast – a process that they said reduced the time taken to remove waste yeast from weeks to minutes. The research will be published in the ...
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BASF increased spending on research and development to €1.8 billion (2012: €1.7 billion) in 2013. "In absolute terms, we lead the field in the chemical industry with our research and development expenditures," said Dr. Andreas ...
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EV Group (EVG) of St Florian, Austria (a supplier of wafer bonding and lithography equipment for MEMS, nanotechnology and semiconductor applications) has shipped an EVG510 semi-automated wafer bonding system and an EVG620 automated bond ...
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Scientists at Nanyang Technological University (NTU) in Singapore, Tsinghua University in China, and Case Western Reserve University in the USA claim to have developed a fiber supercapacitor that can be woven into clothing and power ...
Pixelligent Technologies, the global manufacturer of PixClear high index materials and nanocrystal dispersions for the solid state lighting and flat panel display industries, announced today that it has joined the Smart Lighting Engineering ...
George Washington University's Micro-Propulsion and Nanotechnology Laboratory researchers have constructed an ultracapacitor from a synthesised compound of grapheneGraphene is an allotrope of carbon, whose structure is one-atom-thick planar ...
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ASTM International, formerly known as the American Society for Testing and Materials (ASTM), is a globally recognized leader in the development and delivery of international voluntary consensus standards. Today, some 12,000 ASTM standards ...
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ACE Group today advised that companies in the food and drink industry could face more claims from consumers as a result of new European food labeling regulations that come into force later this year. The purpose of the new regulation is ...
SemiTEq JSC of Saint-Petersburg, Russia, which designs and manufactures high-vacuum and ultra-high-vacuum (UHV) equipment including molecular beam epitaxy (MBE) deposition systems, has sold an STE75 research MBE system to the Centre for ...
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Global multiline property and casualty insurer ACE has cautioned food and beverage (F&B) manufacturers to be ready for more product liability claims, as new EU food labelling regulation takes effect this year. The new regulation, which is ...
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Meryl Hyaluronan by Nylstar has been the selected fiber to develop Yaluronica, a new and exclusive cosmeto-textile product line that is being presented in Cosmoprof. This is the first time a yarn manufacturer showcases its products in a ...
Tags: Cosmeto-Textile, Nylstar, textile product
Altatech Semiconductor S.A. of Montbonnot, near Grenoble, France (a subsidiary of Soitec since January 2012) has received an order from the University of Washington in Seattle for an AltaCVD chemical vapor deposition (CVD) system, whose ...
Tags: CVD System, Process Materials