Power plant waste to be used to clean up Gulf oil spill

11-Aug-2010 - Specially treated waste material from electric power plants will soon be used to clean up oil in the Gulf thanks to the ingenuity of a University of Central Florida professor. The National Science Foundation awarded Sudipta Seal a $67,000 grant that will help the professor turn waste material, ...

MIT scientists transform polyethylene into a heat-conducting material

Conducts heat just as well as most metals, yet remains an electrical insulator

09-Mar-2010 - Most polymers - materials made of long, chain-like molecules - are very good insulators for both heat and electricity. But an MIT team has found a way to transform the most widely used polymer, polyethylene, into a material that conducts heat just as well as most metals, yet remains an electrical ...

Nanotechnologists from Penn collaborate to form near-frictionless diamond material

03-Mar-2010 - Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania, the University of Wisconsin-Madison and IBM Research-Zürich have fabricated an ultra sharp, diamond-like carbon tip possessing such high strength that it is 3,000 times more wear-resistant at the nanoscale than silicon. The end result is a ...

Batteries for Solar Power Storage: Total Signs a Research Agreement with MIT

05-Nov-2009 - Total announces the signing of a research agreement with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) to develop new stationary batteries that are designed to enable the storage of solar power. This agreement valued at $4 million over five years is part of the MIT Energy Initiative, which ...

New material could expand applications and lower costs for solid oxide fuel cells

05-Oct-2009 - A new ceramic material described in the journal Science could help expand the applications for solid oxide fuel cells - devices that generate electricity directly from a wide range of liquid or gaseous fuels without the need to separate hydrogen. Though the long-term durability of the new mixed ...

Plankton Power and RTDC announce proposed algae-to-biofuels pilot facility on Cape Cod

Consortium of local research-industry-government-military organizations collaborating to establish algae farm and biorefinery for production of renewable fuels

06-Aug-2009 - Plankton Power and the Regional Technology Development Corp. (RTDC) of Cape Cod announced the establishment of a public-private consortium focused on building a leading-edge facility to produce renewable biofuels from algae. Under the leadership of Plankton Power, the RTDC, Massachusetts National ...

Liquidia Technologies Appoints Dr. Thomas Templeman, Senior Vice President

15-Jun-2009 - Liquidia Technologies Inc. announced it has appointed Dr. Thomas Templeman as the company’s Senior Vice President, Integrated Supply Chain. Liquidia is a leader in the development of rationally designed nanoparticles for delivery of small molecule and biological agents to enable breakthroughs in ...

Nanofarming technology harvest biofuel oils without harming algae

Ames Laboratory and Catilin seek to commercialize new algal oil extraction process

14-Apr-2009 - Algae is widely touted as the next best source for fueling the world's energy needs. But one of the greatest challenges in creating biofuels from algae is that when you extract the oil from the algae, it kills the organisms, dramatically raising production costs. Now researchers at the U.S. ...

Dual enzyme biocatalyst

19-Mar-2009 - A range of enantiomerically pure chiral amines have been prepared by a collaboration of scientists in the UK and the US. Nicholas Turner and Matthew Truppo from the University of Manchester and a co-worker from Codexis Incorporated, California, have synthesised a range of enantiomerically pure ...

Informex Adds Process Engineering Component to Educational Program

Consultants from Scientific Update to Host Roundtable Discussions

06-Oct-2008 - Informex announced that Scientific Update, LLP, a provider of educational meetings to the organic chemical processing industry, will host the Networking Roundtables at InformexUSA inSan Francisco, California. Discussions will focus on the challenges of manufacturing organic chemicals in a ...