Entries from October 2009 ↓

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LayTec Ranks Among Germany’s 50 Fastest Growing Technology Companies

At the Deloitte's Technology Fast 50 award ceremony in Hamburg on October 21, 2009 LayTec ranked 30th among the 50 fastest growing companies in Germany.

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Silver nanoparticle release from treated garments

Scientists in Switzerland are reporting results of one of the first studies on the release of silver nanoparticles from laundering those anti-odor, anti-bacterial socks now on the market.

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Applied Materials’ Next-Generation IEC-Certified SunFab Module Technology Cuts Customers’ Cost of Manufacturing

Applied Materials, Inc. announced today that it has significantly lowered the cost for customers to manufacture solar photovoltaic panels on its SunFab Thin Film Line using its next-generation module technology.

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New storage material improves energy density of lithium-ion battery

High-performance energy storage technologies for the automotive industry or mobile phone batteries and notebooks providing long battery times - these visions of the future are being brought one step nearer to the present by scientists from Graz University of Technology.

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Velozzi Collaborates With Nanoledge to Provide Innovative Resin Solutions Using Carbon Nanotubes from Bayer

Collaboration leverages Baytubes multi-walled carbon nanotubes in response to customer demand for improved composites.

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Hitachi High-Technologies to Acquire Semiconductor Manufacturing Equipment Business from Renesas

Hitachi High-Technologies Corporation and Renesas Technology Corp. today announced a basic agreement for the transfer of the semiconductor manufacturing equipment business of wholly owned Renesas subsidiary Renesas Eastern Japan Semiconductor, Inc. to Hitachi High-Tech Instruments Co., Ltd.

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Scientists build first ‘frequency comb’ to display visible ‘teeth’

Scientists at the University of Konstanz in Germany and the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) in the United States have built the first optical frequency comb - a tool for precisely measuring different frequencies of visible light - that actually looks like a comb.

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Spintronics may cool the laptop

Does your laptop sometimes get so hot that it can almost be used to fry eggs? New technology may help cool it and give information technology a unique twist.

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Pinning down superconductivity to a single layer

Using precision techniques for making superconducting thin films layer-by-layer, physicists at the Brookhaven National Laboratory have identified a single layer responsible for one such material's ability to become superconducting, i.e., carry electrical current with no energy loss.

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Nanotechnology anti-freeze coating

Inspired by water-resistant lotus leaves, the Pitt-developed solution repels freezing rain and provides the first evidence of anti-icing ability in superhydrophobic coatings.