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12/7/2011 | News
Engineers in England this week are piloting the ASTRA Atom, a high-altitude balloon-borne pod that was built in its entirety from printouts created with a Microsoft rapid electronic prototyping toolkit. Even the on-board data logging equipment was created with a 3D printer.
8/15/2011 | RDBlog
The editors of R&D Magazine have opened the nominations for the 2012 R&D 100 Awards competition, which will celebrate the 50th anniversary of the awards. If your organization introduced a new product this year, or is planning to, you can begin the entry process now.
3/29/2011 | News
Valued
at more than $12 million, the full pilot-scale carbon fiber process
line from New York-based Harper International is part of the DOE’s
effort to reduce the cost of carbon fiber and introduce as a
high-strength component for a greater variety of products, such as
automobiles. The new line at Oak Ridge National Lab will involve the use of low-cost, renewable
lignin as a precursor.
3/17/2011 | News
Argonne
National Laboratory and Nalco Company have reached a licensing agreement
for an
electrodeionization technology that will help reduce the cost of
producing
clean energy and of the chemicals and water used in industry. The
separations
technology can process biomass-based feedstocks into biofuels and
chemicals.
3/22/2010 | News
In the first application for off-highway service engines, traditional oil pans have been displaced in the BASF product line by a new series of polyamide pans that offer a weight savings of 40-50%. The resin can withstand 24,000 hours in a variety of oils at 120°C.
3/15/2010 | News
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.
3/4/2010 | News
Royal DSM N.V. and Novomer announced that they have signed an agreement to jointly develop a coating resin using carbon dioxide (CO2) as a raw material.
3/4/2010 | News
DNA may provide the blueprint for life, but scientists are learning more about the role of a chemical code that governs the way that blueprint is read. Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison researchers have developed a new technique for observing the proteins that operate by that controlling code—called the epigenome—and assembled a library of interactions between the proteins and key positions on packets of DNA.
1/12/2010 | News
In ski sports, split seconds are often the deciding factor in a race. So the choice of wax mixture—the surface interface with the snow—is often crucial to the outcome. Hence, some high technology solutions at the Fraunhofer Institute in Germany, such a ski tribometer that is able to test many varieties of wax on a given type of snow.
11/9/2009 | News
SABIC Innovative Plastics' flame-retardant (FR) Flexible Noryl* resin has achieved a major milestone as one of the first non-halogenated materials to be used in AC power cords meeting stringent Underw...
