GKN Sinter Metals, Auburn Hills, Mich., plans a $10 million expansion of its Gallipolis production facility in southeastern Ohio’s Gallia County. The expansion will include the installation of a new 750-metric-ton, powder-compaction press along with other capital equipment to launch production of differential-gear components developed at the plant. The project is expected to add 50 full-time jobs and generate up to $20 million in additional sales for the company over the next two to three years.
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.