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Timken to spin off engineered steels business

The Timken Co., Canton, Ohio, announces that its board of directors has approved a plan to pursue a separation of the company’s steel business from its bearings and power transmission business through a spinoff, creating two publicly traded companies. A leading global manufacturer of carbon and alloy bar, producing ingot-cast and continuous-cast steel bars for the automotive, bearing, energy and industrial market segments, the separation is designed to improve performance in both companies.

Air Products acquires EPCO Carbon Dioxide Products

Air Products, Lehigh Valley, Pa., has acquired EPCO Carbon Dioxide Products Inc., a privately-held producer and marketer of liquid carbon dioxide headquartered in Monroe, Louisiana. The acquisition also includes Louisiana Leasing, Ltd. of Illinois, an affiliated company that owns liquid CO2 distribution assets that are solely leased to EPCO.

3D measuring system offers auto brightness and high-speed stitching

Olympus, Valley, Pa., released LEXT OLS4100 laser confocal microscope system, designed to deliver nanometer-level imaging, accurate 3D measurement, and outstanding surface roughness analysis. It features auto brightness and a new high-speed stitching mode. Engineered to meet a growing demand for increased measurement precision and wider observation applicability, OLS4100 offers advanced measurement performance at ten-nanometer resolution with a variety of user-friendly performance parameters.

DARPA awards $1.5m project to develop novel thin-film deposition technologies

Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio, Texas, is working on a $1.5 million, three-year project awarded by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency to develop novel technologies for depositing thin films. The contract award is under DARPA’s Local Control of Materials Synthesis (LoCo) program, which is investigating non-thermal approaches for depositing thin-film coatings onto the surfaces of a variety of materials.

Disorder creates rust protection

A material’s nanostructure is decisive in determining how resistant it is against corrosion Corrosion eats away 75 billion euros of economic output annually in Germany alone. But it may soon be possible to better assess which steels and other alloys will be affected, and how to limit the damage: An international team led by scientists from the Max-Planck-Institut für Eisenforschung GmbH in Düsseldorf analyzed an amorphous steel comprising iron, chromium, molybdenum, boron, and carbon.

Protection solution for airplane cables

Commercial airplane manufacturers and aerospace engineers, who need protection against mid-air malfunctions, depend on Device Technologies’ (Southborough, Mass.) FAA-approved grommet and FAR-compliant cable wrap to protect the wiring of critical jetliner components. Spring-Fast Wire Protection Grommet Edging and Protect-Fast Braided Wrap secure and optimize performance of critical electrical systems.

New York’s Marcy Nanocenter to become site for 450-mm computer chip manufacturing

SUNY College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering (CNSE), Albany, N.Y.; and Mohawk Valley EDGE, Utica, N.Y., announce an expanded partnership through which CNSE will lead development of the Marcy Nanocenter site by serving as the site end user. The partnership is designed to accelerate the attraction of next-generation 450-mm computer chip manufacturing to the Mohawk Valley by deploying a public-private partnership model similar to the CNSE Global 450-mm Consortium (G450C). The $4.

Samsung mass-producing 4-gigabit DDR4 devices via 20 nm-class process technology

Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., Japan, is now mass-producing 4-gigabit (Gb) advanced DDR4 memory, for enterprise servers in next-generation data centers. Early market availability of the devices, which use 20 nm-class process technology, will facilitate demand for 16- and 32-gigabyte memory modules. This compares to conventional DRAM of which 8 gigabyte modules using a 30nm-class process technology are still commonplace.

Inspection system meets new ASTM standards

Due to the recent revisions to ASTM standards F136 and F138, Banner Medical, Carol Stream Ill., installed a multi-axis, computer controlled Ultrasonic Inspection System designed and built by Matec Inspection Companies Inc., Northborough, Mass., for precision ground bars.

Russian aerospace and turbine industries receive support from Ipsen

With over 140 million consumers, and almost unlimited infrastructure needs, Russia remains one of the most promising markets for U.S. exporters. Within the last few months, Ipsen, Cherry Valley, Ill., has shipped eight TITAN furnaces to Russia for the civil aerospace and land-based turbine engine industries. These shipments were spread throughout Russia to cities including, but not limited to, Ufa, Perm, and Voronezh.

Century Aluminum acquires Sebree smelter

Century Aluminum Co., Chicago Ill., announces that its wholly owned subsidiary has completed the transaction with Rio Tinto Alcan Inc. to acquire substantially all of the assets of the Sebree aluminum smelter. The Sebree smelter, located in Henderson County, Kentucky, has an annual production capacity of 205,000 metric tons of primary aluminum. Century Aluminum Company owns primary aluminum capacity in the United States and Iceland.

Smart materials used in earthquake-resistant bridges

Bridges are a main component of the transportation infrastructure as we know it today. There are no less than 575,000 highway bridges nationwide, and more than $5 billion are allocated yearly from the federal budget for bridge repairs. Over the past couple of decades, increasing seismic activity around the world has been identified as an impending threat to the strength and well-being of our bridges. Earthquakes have caused bridge collapses in the U.S.

Making a mini Mona Lisa

Nanotechnique creates image 30 µm in width The world’s most famous painting has now been created on the world’s smallest canvas. Researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology, Altanta, “painted” the Mona Lisa on a substrate surface approximately 30 µm in width-one-third the width of a human hair.

The chemistry inside innovation showcased at K 2013

Celanese Corp., Dallas, will showcase the full scope of its highly-diversified products designed to help drive innovation in mobility, water, energy and infrastructure, healthcare, and consumer products at the K Trade Fair in October in Dusseldorf, Germany. The company will highlight its material solutions under the theme “Celanese – The chemistry inside innovation.

Contact Resonance Viscoelastic Mapping enables imaging of elastic and viscoelastic moduli

Asylum Research, an Oxford Instruments company, Santa Barbara, Calif., announces Contact Resonance Viscoelastic Mapping Mode, an option available exclusively for Asylum’s Cypher and MFP-3D Atomic Force Microscopes. Contact Resonance (CR) enables high resolution, quantitative imaging of both elastic storage modulus and viscoelastic loss modulus.

ORNL microscopy uncovers “dancing” silicon atoms in graphene

Jumping silicon atoms are the stars of an atomic scale ballet featured in a new Nature Communications study from the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tenn. The ORNL research team documented the atoms’ unique behavior by first trapping groups of silicon atoms, known as clusters, in a single-atom-thick sheet of carbon called graphene.

Nanoscale material improves smartphone displays

Quantum Materials Corp., San Marcos, Tex., shipped Tetrapod Quantum Dots in sample quantities to a diversified leading Asian-based electronics manufacturer. The tetrapod quantum dots were developed to meet performance specifications. Tetrapod Quantum Dots are an advanced nanoscale material that improves the performance and energy efficiency of very high-resolution computer, TV, and smartphone displays.

Ceramic converter tackles solar cell problem

Coating a solar cell component in ceramics makes it more heat resistant, which could boost overall efficiency of the cells, say researchers. The component converts heat from the sun into infrared light, which can be absorbed by solar cells to make electricity-a technology known as thermophotovoltaics. Unlike earlier prototypes that fell apart before temperatures reached 2200°F (1200°C), the new thermal emitter remains stable at temperatures as high as 2500°F (1400°C).

SRC to help establish Center of Excellence for Energy Efficient Electronic Systems in Abu Dhabi

The Semiconductor Research Corporation (SRC), Research Triangle Park, N.C.; and the Advanced Technology Investment Company (ATIC), Abu Dhabi, have launched the ATIC-SRC Center of Excellence for Energy Efficient Electronic Systems (ACE4S). ATIC will dedicate over $4.7 million to the project over the next three years, which will be matched collectively by Masdar Institute and Khalifa University for a total budget of more than $9 million.

GreenCentre Canada spins off company to commercialize atomic layer metal deposition for interconnects

GreenCentre Canada, Kingston, Ontario, has recently incorporated its third spinoff company, Precision Molecular Design Corp., to commercialize a metal deposition technology that allows manufacturers to generate circuit interconnects in successive layers one atom at a time. This will allow the semiconductor industry to develop the next generation of smaller microchips that can be produced with less waste and lower power consumption.

Spherical gold nanoparticles embedded in polyurethane make flexible conductors

Engineers at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, have made extremely flexible electrical conductors by embedding networks of spherical gold nanoparticles in polyurethane. To find out what happened as the material stretched, the team took state-of-the-art electron microscope images of the materials at various tensions. The nanoparticles started out dispersed, but under strain, they could filter through the minuscule gaps in the polyurethane, connecting in chains as they would in a solution.

Connecting the drops with 3D printing

Researchers from North Carolina State University, Raleigh, developed 3D printing technology and techniques to create free-standing structures made of liquid metal at room temperature. “It’s difficult to create structures out of liquids, because liquids want to bead up. But we’ve found that a liquid metal alloy of gallium and indium reacts to the oxygen in the air at room temperature to form a ‘skin’ that allows the liquid metal structures to retain their shapes,” says Dr.

Zeiss to acquire Xradia to complement its microscopy business

On June 13, Zeiss, Oberkochen, Germany, announced the planned acquisition of the U.S.-based Xradia, Inc., Pleasanton, Calif. Xradia is a medium-size company providing innovative 3D x-ray microscopes for industrial and academic research applications. The closing of the transaction is subject to the fulfillment of customary closing conditions including a required filing with the U.S. competition authorities. After closing, Xradia, Inc.

Composite element test models help design laser repair of nickel-base superalloys

University of Birmingham, School of Metallurgy and Materials, UK, announces that researchers have developed analytical models for the repair of commercial single crystal nickel-base superalloys. Composite element test (CET) modeling was used by researchers to define processing parameters and the correlation between solidification conditions and microstructure. Models are designed to predict the relationship of laser treatment and powder injection and their effects on the substrate.

MedShape to release shape memory polymer fixation device for soft tissue repair

MedShape Inc., Atlanta, Ga., announces the closing of $11 million in new financing. The investment will help drive further development and commercialization of pipeline products, including the full market release of the Eclipse Soft Tissue Anchor, MedShape’s newest shape memory polymer fixation device for soft tissue repair.

Wisconsin Oven opens 30,000 square foot facility in Waukesha

Wisconsin Oven Corp., East Troy, Wis., has opened another plant in Waukesh, Wis. The 30,000-square-foot existing facility will increase the capacity of the industrial oven manufacturer’s existing four plants in East Troy. The expansion will help Wisconsin Oven continue to design and manufacture a broad line of heating equipment . The company’s standard or custom industrial ovens are used for a multitude of applications, such as heat treating.

Resistive memory based on zinc-oxide/silicon has higher speed, greater storage capacity

A team at the University of California, Riverside, has developed a novel way to build a zinc oxide nano-island on silicon. It eliminates the need for a second element called a selector, which is often a diode. The device is based on the principles of resistive memory, which can be used to create memory cells that are smaller, operate at a higher speed, and offer more storage capacity than flash memory cells, the current industry standard.

Impact Fusion HVOF improves coatings and bond strength

MBI Coatings, Lancaster, S.C., announces the addition of an Impact Fusion Hi Velocity Oxygen Fuel spray system. This system features higher velocities for improved coating properties and bond strength. With Impact Fusion, the particles are practically forge-welded onto the surface and onto each other to form the coating. Higher particle velocities result in higher density coatings that are more strongly bonded to the surface.

Bruker joins Sematech to advance nanoscale characterization of semiconductor materials

Bruker Nano Surfaces, Billerica, Mass., has joined Sematech, Albany, N.Y., to develop new semiconductor defect characterization solutions for advanced materials development. The collaboration will generate the first detailed information database that allows Bruker’s patented PeakForce QNM mechanical force data to be correlated to nanoparticle materials.

Carnegie Mellon to develop next-gen silicon chips with $2.6 million NSF grant

Carnegie Mellon University’s Center for Silicon System Implementation, Pittsburgh, has received a $2.6 million grant from the National Science Foundation to develop next-generation ultra-efficient silicon chips that could trigger a revolution in how chips are designed and operated. The three-year initiative involves eight faculty members who have expertise in a variety of areas that include circuit design, computer architecture, and integrated circuit chip manufacturing.

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