11-04-2013

A team of researchers has made a major breakthrough in measuring the structure of nanomaterials under extremely high pressures. For the first time, they developed a way to get around the severe distortions of high-energy X-ray beams that are used to image the structure of a gold nanocrystal. ...

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Board Names Jim Owens as new CEO

24-11-2010

H.B. Fuller Company, announced that the board of directors has appointed Jim Owens to succeed Michele Volpi as president and chief executive officer and director, effective immediately. Volpi will step down from the board of directors. Owens, H.B. Fuller's senior vice president, Americas, ...

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Rice University lab finds table sugar, metallic sheets produce pristine graphene in one step

17-11-2010

Future computers may run a little sweeter, thanks to a refinement in the manufacture of graphene at Rice University. Rice researchers have learned to make pristine sheets of graphene, the one-atom-thick form of carbon, from plain table sugar and other carbon-based substances. They do so in a ...

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03-11-2010

Eastman Chemical Company is announcing a further global price increase on Rosin Resin products and Resin Dispersion products effective December 1, 2010 or as contracts allow. The primary drivers for this additional pricing action are the unprecedented further increase in gum rosin cost and ...

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11-10-2010

Measuring a fuel cell's overall performance is relatively easy, but measuring its components individually as they work together is a challenge. That's because one of the best experimental techniques for investigating the details of an electrochemical device while it's operating is x-ray ...

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Rice researchers find metallacarboranes may meet DOE storage goals

04-10-2010

New research by Rice University scientists suggests that a class of material known as metallacarborane could store hydrogen at or better than benchmarks set by the United States Department of Energy (DOE) Hydrogen Program for 2015. The work could receive wide attention as hydrogen comes into ...

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Brings together three universities to develop detailed analysis and insight into molecular-level affects

12-08-2010

LSU Associate Professor of Chemistry Robert Cook has recently received a rapid response grant from the National Science Foundation, or NSF, to investigate the impact of oil from the Deepwater Horizon disaster on Louisiana's highly fertile, productive and delicate marshlands by studying ...

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09-07-2010

Every second, the earth's surface receives roughly as much energy from the sun as it would take to satisfy the energy needs of all of humankind for half a day. If researchers could succeed in harnessing this enormous potential effectively and at a reasonable cost, our energy problems would be ...

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08-07-2010

An incidental discovery in a wood products lab at Oregon State University has produced a new pressure-sensitive adhesive that may revolutionize the tape industry – an environmentally benign product that works very well and costs much less than existing adhesives based on petrochemicals. The ...

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'Most condensed form of energy storage outside of nuclear energy'

07-07-2010

The world's biggest Roman candle has got nothing on this. Using super-high pressures similar to those found deep in the Earth or on a giant planet, Washington State University researchers have created a compact, never-before-seen material capable of storing vast amounts of energy. "If you ...

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