Rice University physicists find reversible way to alter VO2's unique electronic about-face

05-25-2012

If you are not a condensed matter physicist, vanadium oxide (VO2) may be the coolest material you've never heard of. It's a metal. It's an insulator. It's a window coating and an optical switch. And thanks to a new study by physicists at Rice University, scientists have a new way to ...

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05-25-2012

Air Products has recently received the “China Best Employer Award 2011” top 100 nominaton recognizing its contribution to talent recruitment and development in China. Air Products was one of six companies from the chemical industry receiving this recognition. The award was jointly organized ...

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05-25-2012

ELANTAS Electrical Insulation, a division of the specialty chemicals Group ALTANA AG, has acquired the casting resins business for electrical and electronic applications of the Italian Marbo Group. The casting resins business of Marbo includes products for the encapsulation or coating of ...

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Bayer MaterialScience and BAM Federal Institute for Materials Research and Testing develop shape memory polymer from thermoplastic polyurethane

05-25-2012

A new thermoplastic polyurethane (TPU) developed by Bayer MaterialScience together with the BAM Federal Institute for Materials Research and Testing in Berlin, Germany, shows that plastics can also have a memory. Parts made of such a plastic can be temporarily reshaped and fixed in this ...

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Merck Expands Capabilities on Novel Materials for Display and Lighting

05-25-2012

Merck announced that within the scope of a capital increase by the Israeli start-up company QLight Nanotech, it is acquiring an interest in the Jerusalem-based company. QLight Nanotech is a spin-off subsidiary of Yissum, the technology transfer company of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. ...

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05-24-2012

Kuraray Co., Ltd. and MonoSol, LLC announced that Kuraray has agreed to acquire MonoSol, a market-leading manufacturer of water-soluble polyvinyl alcohol (PVA) films. This acquisition by Kuraray supports its strategy to expand its Vinyl Acetate Chemical Chain Business. Terms of the ...

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Collaboration represents expansion of Evofuel’s Latin American operations, currently focused on Brazil

05-24-2012

Evogene Ltd. and T6 Industrial S.A., a biodiesel producer in Argentina, announced that Evofuel Ltd., Evogene's wholly owned subsidiary, and T6 Industrial, entered a collaboration for development of castor bean seeds as a sustainable and cost competitive feedstock for biodiesel ...

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05-24-2012

Ben-Gurion University of the Negev and Central and Northern Arava R&D researchers presented the successful application of solar-powered membrane desalination to arid agriculture at the Conference on Desalination for the Environment in Barcelona late last month.Dr. Andrea Ghermandi of the ...

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05-24-2012

German specialty chemicals company LANXESS has started up on schedule a nitrile butadiene rubber (NBR) plant in Nantong, China, as part of its 50:50 joint venture with Taiwan’s TSRC Corporation. The two companies have jointly invested USD 50 million (approx. EUR 39 million) in the new plant, ...

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Metastable material

05-24-2012

A new study shows that the availability of hydrogen plays a significant role in determining the chemical and structural makeup of graphene oxide, a material that has potential uses in nano-electronics, nano-electromechanical systems, sensing, composites, optics, catalysis and energy ...

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