12-Feb-2014

The bench-scale test widely used to evaluate whether a burning cigarette will ignite upholstered furniture may underestimate the tendency of component materials to smolder when these materials are used in sofas and chairs supported by springs or cloth, National Institute of Standards and ...

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Pfeiffer Vacuum announces results for the first nine months of 2010

04-Nov-2010

Pfeiffer Vacuum closed the month of September with the best quarter ever in its corporate history. This also produced above-average developments for the first nine months. All metrics posted significant, double-digit growth rates. Pfeiffer Vacuum Chief Executive Officer Manfred Bender had this ...

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20-Oct-2010

Fingerprints that have been washed off surfaces could now be retrieved thanks to a development by scientists in the UK and reported in the Journal of Materials Chemistry. The strained four-membered ring system, S2N2 quickly polymerises to (SN)x in the presence of fingerprints. This polymer ...

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Operating earnings below expectations

13-Aug-2010

With sales of EUR 59.6 m, Analytik Jena AG has achieved an important milestone towards being able to close the current financial year with record sales once again. This was announced by the analytical measuring technology manufacturer at the presentation of its nine-month figures. Analytik Jena ...

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11-Aug-2010

A wrench or a screwdriver of a single size is useful for some jobs, but for a more complicated project, you need a set of tools of different sizes. Following this guiding principle, researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have engineered a nanoscale fluidic device ...

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Peak years of patent expiries shift growth toward generics

23-Apr-2010

IMS Health reported that the size of the global market for pharmaceuticals is expected to grow nearly $300 billion (ex manufacturer prices) over the next five years, reaching $1.1 trillion in 2014. The 5 - 8 percent compound annual growth rate during this period reflects the impact of leading ...

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First direct observation of exchange process in quantum gas

05-Feb-2010

Considerable progresses made in controlling quantum gases open up a new avenue to study chemical processes. Rudolf Grimm's research team has now succeeded in directly observing chemical exchange processes in an ultracold sample of cesium atoms and Feshbach molecules. Complex processes, which to ...

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30-Nov-2009

Würzburg physicists are global leaders in the creation of sophisticated nanostructures. The fruits of their research could make tap-proof data transmission a possibility in the future. At the heart of the concept are tiny towers, made from semiconducting material, at the University of Würzburg's ...

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25-Nov-2009

Surplus biomass from the production of flax shives, and generated from Brassica carinata, a yellow-flowered plant related to those which engulf fields in spring, can be used to produce bioethanol. This has been suggested by two studies carried out by Spanish and Dutch researchers and published in ...

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18-Nov-2009

Merck KGaA, Applied Materials, Inc. and Braunschweig University of Technology (TU-BS) announced that they have been awarded a grant by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) to develop processes to lower the cost of manufacturing organic light-emitting diode (OLED) lighting. ...

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