New research paper about the coating of silicone implants with recombinant spider silk. AMSilk has completed preclinical testing of its proprietary silicone implant coating made from spider silk. AMSilk's coating consists of a thin layer ...
Tags: AMSilk, mechanical performance, implant
Researchers have developed a technique for creating nanoparticles that carry two different cancer-killing drugs into the body and deliver those drugs to separate parts of the cancer cell where they will be most effective. The technique was ...
Tags: create nanoparticles, cancer-killing drugs, breast cancer, cancer cell
As part of the international DETOX campaign, the environmental organisation Greenpeace released the new report “Chemistry For Any Weather – Part II” mid of December 2013. For this purpose, Greenpeace commissioned two ...
Sympatex Technologies expands into the Korean market: The ecological alternative among textile functional specialists is from now on represented with its own branch in the centre of Seoul, the capital. With the new customer Trespass, ...
Pre-Google, who ever imagined that Motorola would be one of the world's most forward-thinking mobile manufacturers? The company recently signed a deal with 3D Systems to develop a futuristic 3D-printing production platform for?Project ...
Royal DSM, the Life Sciences and Materials Sciences company, reported a third quarter EBITDA of €342 million compared to €270 million in Q3 2012. This improvement of 27% was realized despite an ongoing challenging macro-economic ...
BASF raised sales in the third quarter of 2013 by 1.5% to around €17.7 billion despite significantly negative currency effects. This growth was mainly the result of increased volumes, particularly in the Oil & Gas segment. Income from ...
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US-based Dow Chemical's Adhesives & Functional Materials business has expanded its food packaging solutions with the addition of new Hypod water-based polyolefin dispersions. The water-based system also includes properties of polyolefins ...
The Dow Chemical's Adhesives & Functional Materials business has launched its new peelable heat seal coating technology Adcote HS 40-555 for polyester lidding film applications. According to the company, the new technology has been ...
Ishihara Sangyo Kaisha, Ltd. (“ISK”) announced on August 12, 2013, that as a part of its ongoing reformation of inorganic business portfolios, it will close the titanium dioxide production plant of its 100% subsidiary ISK ...
BASF increased sales by 3% in the second quarter of 2013 to just under €18.4 billion thanks to higher sales volumes in all segments. Income from operations (EBIT) before special items decreased by 5% to around €1.8 billion. In the ...
Tags: Construction, Decoration
The cyCESH Project supported by the BMBF (Germany's Federal Ministry of Education and Research) explores new functional materials for printed OLEDs for lighting applications. BMBF launched the project cyCESH involving cynora GmbH, Novaled ...
Tags: OLEDs Lighting, LED, Lights, Lighting
The main aims of the common project are to improve the efficiency and service life of organic light emitting diodes (OLEDs). In addition, production costs have to be minimised to ensure that OLEDs can be successful in the general lighting ...
Tags: OLED, LED, Olymp Project
Light-emitting diodes, better known as LEDs, offer substantial energy savings over incandescent and fluorescent lights and are easily produced in single colors such as red or green commonly used in traffic lights or children's toys. ...
Tags: Tiny Crystals, LED Lights
Due to ever smaller configurations and higher power densities a targeted transfer of heat on the PCB or at components that are highly stressed thermally is of increasing importance. Especially in the automotive sector, electronic modules ...
Tags: ViscoTec, Piston Principle