WACKER POLYMERS is to raise its prices for vinyl acetate-ethylene and ethylene-vinyl chloride-based copolymer dispersions of the VINNAPAS and VINNOL brand in the regions Americas and Greater China. As customer contracts allow, effective ...
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Although low temperature fuel cells powered by methanol or hydrogen have been well studied, existing low temperature fuel cell technologies cannot directly use biomass as a fuel because of the lack of an effective catalyst system for ...
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Magritek, a leading provider of compact NMR and MRI instruments, report on the use of their Spinsolve Benchtop NMR spectrometer to study polymers at the Delft University of Technology. Dr. Theo Dingemans is the Antoni van Leeuwenhoek ...
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Linkam Scientific Instruments report on the use of their stages for supramolecular polymer research at the Eindhoven University of Technology in the Netherlands. As part of the Supramolecular polymer chemistry group at the Eindhoven ...
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The Valspar Corporation and North Dakota State University (NDSU) have announced two new scholarship programs to provide opportunities for students studying coatings and polymeric materials at NDSU. The Valspar Foundation will contribute ...
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Microvehicles and other devices that can change shape or move with no power source other than a beam of light may be possible through research led by the University of Pittsburgh Swanson School of Engineering. The researchers are ...
The American Coatings Association (ACA) is seeking nominations for the Joseph J. Mattiello Lecture Award, to be presented at its American Coatings Conference, April 7-9, 2014, in Atlanta, Ga. Nominations must be received by Aug. 31, 2013. ...
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What is the identity of a person without a name given to him? How will he be recognised in the world and be treated as a distinct entity and an important part of it? As a name is to a man, a marking is to a non living object. There are ...
Direct laser engraving of flexographic plates and cylinders Direct laser engraving of flexographic printing cylinders and plates has been an established process since the 1970s. This first began with the use of a carbon dioxide laser used ...
UK-based Capmpden BRI would involve itself in ISA-Pack, a packaging material project funded by EU that started in January. The project aims to identify synergistic combinations of effective food preservation chemistries that may be ...
Tags: packaging material, polymeric materials, reliable indicator systems
Global specialty chemicals company Eastman Chemical has been assigned a patent number 8,287,970 for ‘plastic baby bottles, other blow molded articles, and processes for their manufacture.’ The patent has been developed by ...
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The American Coatings Association (ACA) has announced that Dr. Dean Webster, chair of the Coatings and Polymeric Materials Department at North Dakota State University (NDSU), will deliver the Mattiello Memorial Lecture at its CoatingsTech ...
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A new report estimates that the compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of polymer usage will increase by 26% in wafer level applications over the next 5 years. Last year, polymeric semiconductor material market was valued at $274 million, ...
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US market for Conductive Polymers is projected to reach US$1.6 bln by the year 2017, as per Global Industry Analyst. Growth will be primarily driven by expanding new applications in advanced organic light emitting diode screens, sensor ...
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Osram announces a record-breaking flexible OLED, while a EU-funded group headed up by Imec will also pursue flexible OLEDs with built-in intelligence. NanoMarkets publishes an OLED materials market report and the OSA publishes a volume of ...
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