Polymer nano-films and nano-composites are used in a wide variety of applications from food packaging to sports equipment to automotive and aerospace applications. Thermal analysis is routinely used to analyze materials for ...
Nanophysics
Jan 12, 2012
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More than 192 million tonnes of fruit and vegetable waste is produced in Europe every year. The continued use of oil as a raw material is a serious obstacle in the way of sustainable industrial development, since it is harmful ...
Materials Science
Jan 12, 2012
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(AP) -- Tim Cook could well end up being the highest paid CEO in America in 2011, after Apple Inc. granted him a million restricted stock units last August for taking the reins shortly before co-founder Steve Jobs died.
Business
Jan 10, 2012
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Yahoo dangled a $27 million pay package to lure its newly hired CEO Scott Thompson away from PayPal.
Business
Jan 7, 2012
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A new study has found that the same persuasive packaging that can lead consumers to buy a particular product can also cause them to use less of it once they take it home – thus reducing its long-term ...
Economics & Business
Nov 30, 2011
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Small. Fast. Precise. A new electronics manufacturing technology developed at NDSU’s Center for Nanoscale Science and Engineering eliminates challenges facing conventional packaging techniques and shows ...
Electronics & Semiconductors
Nov 18, 2011
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Applications of the technology include the ability to label genuine brand products with a technical solution that is difficult to counterfeit. Printers can reduce the use of inks with this method, and advertising agencies ...
Engineering
Nov 11, 2011
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a substance that may have harmful health effects -- occurs in 94 percent of thermal cash register receipts, scientists are reporting. The recycling of those receipts, they add, is a source of BPA contamination of paper napkins, ...
Other
Oct 26, 2011
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Minced meat, bread, fruit juice and many other foods are packaged in a protective gas which extends their shelf life. There is currently no good method to check whether the packaging has the correct gas content. However, ...
Other
Oct 20, 2011
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Fujitsu today announced the launch of FEFS (Fujitsu Exabyte File System), a scalable file system software package for building file systems for x86 HPC clusters in Japan.
Software
Oct 17, 2011
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