Vencorex, a newly formed joint venture between PTT Global Chemical and the Perstorp Group, will be displaying its offerings at the upcoming European Coatings Show. The company is the owner of key technologies and a major producer of ...
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 ...
Tags: Finance, Rare Earth, Metallurgy
Cambridge University is turning to technology developed for computer gaming to help it solve some of the fundamental problems of science. Cambridge University is using chips normally found in computer game consoles to drive cutting-edge ...
Tags: Cambridge University, computer gaming, chips, graphical processing
Deposition equipment maker Aixtron SE of Herzogenrath, Germany says that existing customer UMI Georgia Tech-CNRS in Metz, France has bought a 3x2”-wafer Close Coupled Showerhead (CCS) metal organic chemical vapour deposition (MOCVD) ...
Tags: Aixtron, MOCVD, deposition equipment, chemical vapour deposition
Wide-bandgap semiconductor materials such as gallium nitride (GaN) offer far higher performance than traditional silicon but cost significantly more. However, by 2020 GaN costs will drop enough for it to become competitive based on ...
Tags: Bulk GaN, traditional silicon, gallium nitride, reckons market
When it comes to bathroom trends, like any kind of trend, it all depends on cultural context, and timing. After all, what's in right now depends on how people value styles and function, as well as that hard-to-pin-down ex-factor that kicks ...
Tags: bathroom, trends, cultural context
On the face of it the outlook in Europe for OEM automobile coatings looks grim at the moment. The region is estimated to have a 20 percent overcapacity in car manufacturing so that plant closures are seen to be sooner or later ...
BP is to establish a $100 million international research center known as the BP International Centre for Advanced Materials, or BP-ICAM. This center will lead research aimed at advancing the fundamental understanding and use of materials ...
Tags: BP, international research center, energy, University of Manchester
Food packaging is approximately a$340 billion industry worldwide.In the U.S.,about a third of household waste is food packaging,and much of this cannot be recycled. Gifts totaling$2.2 million from The Wegman Family Charitable Foundation ...
Tags: sustainable Packaging, Rochester Institute of Technology, America
An international research team based in Bristol, UK has reportedly developed a new quantum chip that could enable the creation of ultra-fast computers and unhackable mobile phones, according to a report in the Financial Times. The report ...
Tags: Bristol scientists, Quantum chip, scientists, silicon chips
Even if we're not planning to move anyway,perfectly happy in the home of our dreams which we've made of the place we live,curb appeal is still pretty important.You've heard it a million times by now,but curb appeal is just another way of ...
Tags: Curb Appeal, exterior design
Mechanochemistry is a sub‐group of physical chemistry and addresses the effects of mechanical energy on solids and the resulting chemical modifications.Here,FRITSCH Planetary Mills have been indispensable for a long time. History of ...
Tags: mechanochemistry, Planetary-All Mills, Instruments, Electrochemistry
The living room is the second most used room in the house after the kitchen. I don't mean a formal living room, like I grew up with. I mean the room you and your family actually 'live' in! Some people might call it a family room or the t.v ...
The biennial Harrogate event, known previously as Northprint, is going in for a revamp for its next edition on 14-16 May 2013, in a bid to emphasize the increasing importance of the packaging market in the print sector. Packaging-specific ...
Tags: Northprint, packaging market, print sector
(i) Survey of the Development Zones The investment environment in these zones is becoming more and more perfect after years of development and construction. Infrastructure has been accomplished with roads, electricity supply, water ...
Tags: Hebei province, survey, economy, investment