The global market for acrylic acid is expected to reach $22.78 billion by 2020, according to a new study by Grand View Research, Inc. Increasing adoption of super absorbent polymers in emerging economies such as India, China and Brazil is ...
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Researchers in Taiwan have produced zinc oxide/gallium nitride (ZnO/GaN) nano-rod light-emitting diodes [Ya-Ju Lee et al, APL Mater. vol2, p056101, 2014]. The researchers avoided complicated polymer processing by using a shadowing effect to ...
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Broadband wireless and wireline communications component maker Anadigics Inc of Warren, NJ, USA has launched the AWL5910 power amplifier (PA), optimized for WiFi infrastructure and multimedia applications including access points, routers, ...
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EPA and New Hampshire Dept. of Environmental Services will hold a Public Informational Meeting at Berlin City Hall in Berlin, N.H. on May 29. The meeting, which is open to all, will give community residents an update on environmental site ...
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Peabody Energy has closed its Viking surface coal mine in Daviess County, Indiana, several months after the mine had been expected to cease operations because its reserves of high-sulfur steam coal were running out. "Production operations ...
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BASF has launched two new MasterTop topcoats for decorative and industrial applications which can be used in public rooms such as education, office and healthcare facilities as well as in industrial environments. With MasterTop TC 417W and ...
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Imagine a future in which our electrical gadgets are no longer limited by plugs and external power sources. This intriguing prospect is one of the reasons for the current interest in building the capacity to store electrical energy ...
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Researchers at Vanderbilt University have developed a structural supercapacitor that stores and releases electrical chargeThe amount of electricity present upon the capacitor's plates. Also, the act of forcing of electrons onto the ...
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Air Products has introduced two new superwetting surfactants – Dynol 977E and 979E for siding board coatings, adding to its portfolio for waterborne formulations. Specially designed to address the challenges facing formulators on ...
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Researchers at the University of California, Riverside have developed a novel nanometer scale ruthenium oxide anchored nanocarbon grapheneGraphene is an allotrope of carbon, whose structure is one-atom-thick planar sheets of sp2-bonded ...
Finland-based stainless steel producer Outokumpu has announced that it has completed the €100 million investment project at its quarto plate mill in Degerfors, Sweden. The investment program entailed upgrades to the whole production ...
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Russian steelmaker Severstal has announced the launch of an 18 MW capacity gas-reciprocating power plant running on methane ( a coal by-product) at an industrial site of the Severnaya mine located in Vorkuta, a structural unit of ...
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Researchers in Germany have developed two-dimensional hole gas (2DHG) gallium nitride (GaN) channel structures with record mobility [B Reuters et al, J. Phys. D: Appl. Phys., vol47, p175103, 2014]. Mobility for 2DHGs in GaN is usually ...
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SAMCO Inc of Kyoto, Japan, a supplier of plasma etch, chemical vapour deposition (CVD) and surface treatment systems to compound semiconductors device makers, has relocated its US East Coast regional office. Due to a rise in customers in ...
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Cadillac, a luxury automobile and SUV division of US automaker General Motors (GM), has unveiled the revamped variant of ATS Sedan, the 2015 ATS Coupe. The new vehicle is powered by a 3.6L six cylinder engine, which has replaced the ...
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