A commercial reverse osmosis (RO) membrane was modified by adsorption of copper hydroxide particles, to improve the antibacterial and anti-adhesion properties of the membrane. Biofouling of reverse osmosis (RO) membranes used in water ...
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In a European collaboration within the project ConceptGraphene, researchers at Chalmers University of Technology in Sweden have developed a method for fast and inexpensive quality control of graphene grown on silicon carbide (SiC). The ...
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Cardium Therapeutics has filed a new 510(k) submission for its current FDA-cleared Excellagen advanced wound care product based on the company's supplemental research and development activities. The new 510(k) submission describes ...
When a molten material cools quickly, parts of it may have enough time to grow into orderly crystals. But if the cooling rate is too fast for the entire melt to crystallize, the remaining material ends up in a non-crystalline state known as ...
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LayTec AG of Berlin, Germany (which makes in-situ metrology systems for thin-film processes, focusing on compound semiconductor and photovoltaic applications) says that, in his invited talk at the LED Technology Forum in Singapore (7-10 ...
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A contentious controversy surrounds the high intensity of indium gallium nitride (InGaN) LEDs, with experts split on whether or not indium-rich clusters within the material provide their remarkable efficiency. Now, researchers from the ...
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Kim Kisslinger, seen here with a focused-ion beam instrument, reduced the InGaN samples to a thickness of just 20 nanometers to prepare them for electron microscopy. From the high-resolution glow of flat screen televisions to light bulbs ...
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Funded by the US Army Research Office, researchers at North Carolina State University ( at the atomic scale (just one atom thick). The technique can be used to create the thin films on a large scale, sufficient to coat wafers that are ...
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AIXTRON SE today announced that the University of Cambridge has successfully commissioned another multi-wafer Close Coupled Showerhead (CCS) MOCVD reactor at its new facility at the Department of Material Science and Metallurgy. The CCS ...
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Long-term collaboration for growth of 6-inch GaN-on-Si wafers planned AIXTRON SE today announced that the University of Cambridge has successfully commissioned another multi-wafer Close Coupled Showerhead (CCS) MOCVD reactor at its new ...
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Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology and Samsung Electronics Co Ltd of South Korea have developed a zinc oxide (ZnO) nanorod (NR) process for improving light extraction from gallium nitride (GaN) light-emitting diodes (LEDs) by up to ...
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The first millimeter-wave power demonstration of aluminium gallium nitride/gallium nitride (AlGaN/GaN) high-electron-mobility transistors (GaN) grown on a (110) silicon substrate has been claimed by a French team of researchers [A. Soltani ...
The New York Society of Cosmetic Chemists (SCC) honoured scientists from Evonik’s Personal Care Business Line with the Shaw Mudge Award for best paper presented at SCC‘s annual scientific meeting and technology showcase. ...
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Owens-Illinois Inc. (NYSE: OI) announces that it has signed a three-year agreement with the University of Toledo College of Engineering, Chemical & Environmental Engineering Department, to support research at O-I´s new R&D Innovation ...
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Glass container manufacturer Owens-Illinois (O-I) has signed a three-year agreement with the University of Toledo (UT) College of Engineering, Chemical & Environmental Engineering Department, in a bid to support research at its new R&D ...
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