Anasys Instruments, Santa Barbara, Calif., announces the nanoIR2, a second generation AFM based IR spectroscopy (AFM-IR) platform. A key breakthrough is the ability of the nanoIR2 to operate with top-side illumination, eliminating the prior need to prepare samples on a ZnSe prism and enabling measurements on a much more diverse set of samples.
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.
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.
Solar Atmospheres of Western PA (SAWPA), Hermitage, announces that Michael Paponetti has accepted the position of Regional Sales Manager. Michael will be utilizing his 18 years of heat treating / brazing technical knowledge to maintain and promote sales throughout the country. Prior to accepting this position he served as President of Expert Brazing and Heat Treating which is located in Massillon, Ohio.
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.
