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Organic catalysts could greatly ease polymer recycling, reuse

Scientists from IBM and Stanford University have recent detailed polymer discoveries that could lead to the development of new types of biodegradable, biocompatible plastics. The result of a multi-year research effort, the breakthrough is based on organocatalysis, specifically oxide-based catalysts that show activities rivaling the most active metal-based catalysts. Harnessing this activity could enable us to significantly increase the ability to recycle and reuse PET.

Pepperl+Fuchs acquires Siemens proximity sensor business

Pepperl+Fuchs has signed an agreement with Siemens Industry Automation Division to acquire Siemens’ binary proximity sensor business. The acquisition is expected to be finalized effective June 30, 2010.

Bruker to acquire certain Varian Inc. product lines from Agilent Technologies

Bruker Corp. and Agilent Technologies Inc. announced that Bruker and Agilent have entered into a definitive asset purchase agreement. Pursuant to this agreement, Bruker will acquire certain product lines of Varian Inc., which Agilent has committed to divest in connection with obtaining regulatory approval for Agilent's previously announced acquisition of Varian.

DuPont Performance Polymers launches new nylon for automotive industry

DuPont Performance Polymers launches new nylon for automotive industry

A new family of nylon products from DuPont Performance Polymers—DuPont Zytel PLUS nylon—delivers high performance levels and maintains those high performance levels despite exposure to hot oil, hot air, calcium chloride, and other aggressive automotive chemicals.

Agilent makes fish DNA ID fast, simple, accurate

Agilent Technologies Inc. announced a system that speeds and simplifies the use of DNA to identify fish species in food products, making this technique feasible for routine verification of seafood labeling and detecting species substitutions.

First woven fabric heater made from carbon nanotubes

First woven fabric heater made from carbon nanotubes

A Japanese company has woven conductive fabric made from highly-dispersed carbon nanotube multifilament yarns from Bayer MaterialScience, creating what could be the first fabric heaters to enter practical use: they have been successful tested on-board a train to keep water from freezing during a cold winter.

The Future of Industrial R&D

Even in an age where swift return on investment is paramount and where expenditures are tightly controlled, there is still a thirst for research projects that are bold in their scope, grand in their challenge, and seminal in their results. Novel ways and strategies for collaborating put such goals within our grasp.

Agilent’s Scanning Microwave Microscopy collects another award

Agilent’s Scanning Microwave Microscopy collects another award

 Named one of 10 SPIE 2009 Prism Awards winners, the Scanning Microwave Microscopy Mode (SMM Mode) instruments from Agilent Technologies Inc. earned an R&D 100 Award in 2009 for this useful adaptation of the atomic force microscope for use in the semiconductor industry.

IBM’s latest graphene transistor breaks 100 GHz barrier

A team at IBM working for the Carbon Electronics for RF Applications program funded by DARPA previously achieved 26GHz. But this breakthrough—the world’s fastest cycle speed for graphene—was achieved using wafer-scale graphene processing technology compatible with silicon device fabrication.

Magnetic tape data in the limelight with IBM data record

Magnetic tape data in the limelight with IBM data record

Automated tape libraries are still the standard for containing massive amounts of business data—think petabytes—and they are far cheaper than hard disk drives. Keeping up with exploding information reserves, IBM researchers have built a prototype tape that has a density of 29.5 billion bits per square inch, or about 39 times the density of industry-standard tape.

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Advent of the indispensible phone

Advent of the indispensible phone

I told myself I would never write a blog about a cellphone. Who wants to hear more about a lump of electronics that already gets too much attention? But it’s the basic need for information, both personal and business, that dictates our desire and why for me a good mobile phone just won’t do anymore.

A chip giant’s little champion

A chip giant’s little champion

According to a report on Monday, Intel’s Atom processor is becoming a sales monster, driving a record for shipments in a single quarter. One normally wouldn’t expect that sort of performance from Intel’s slowest, smallest chip, but cost and power consumption have a lot to do with it. The bigger story, perhaps, is that many of these chips won’t ever see the inside of a laptop.

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DuPont Performance Polymers launches new nylon for automotive industry

A new family of nylon products from DuPont Performance Polymers—DuPont Zytel PLUS nylon—delivers high performance levels and maintains those high performance levels despite exposure to hot oil, hot air, calcium chloride, and other aggressive automotive chemicals.

Sigma-Aldrich teams with 3M to provide high-performance organic semiconductor

TIPS Pentacene, a soluble organic semiconductor for printed and flexible electronics, is manufactured by 3M under the name 3M Organic Electronics Semiconductor L-20856 and is the first in a family of soluble Pentacene-based semiconductors developed by 3M Electronics Markets Materials Division in collaboration with Dr. John Anthony, professor at the Univ. of Kentucky and founder of Outrider Technologies LLC.

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Gas generators for FT-IR spectrometers

Parker Hannifin Corporation offers FT-IR Purge Gas Generators designed to replace dangerous and costly gas cylinders in the laboratory. Parker Balston FT-IR Purge Gas Generators are specifically designed for use with FT-IR Spectrometers to provide a purified purge gas and air bearing gas utilizing standard compressed air.

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