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At the 3GSM global telecommunications show in Barcelona, Spain from February 12-15, Eleksen presented new products and solutions designed for the consumer and enterprise mobility markets.
Fabrics containing SmartSilver will be exhibited in Cotton Incorporated's booths at two key textile industry events in Paris this month - Premire Vision and Texworld which both take place from Februar
Leading missile and aerospace technology company Lockheed Martin will be speaking at the seventh annual Nanocomposites and Nanotubes 2007 conference.
Japanese researchers have succeeded in producing peanut-shaped nanoparticles comprised of two different sulfur-containing substances.
During the recent 3GSM World Congress in Barcelona, Spain, Polymer Vision received the event's Innovation Award for its rollable display technology.
Entries are being invited for the the Techtextil and Avantex 2007 Innovation Prizes.
One of Norway's top hospitals is now using radio frequency identification (RFID) tags to improve its logistics and achieve considerable savings in its garment and laundry operations.
Fibretronic has announced a deal with Apple Computer securing entry into the 'Made-for-iPod' licensing programme.
Physicists in the UK and Germany have created a new kind of structurally stable membrane that is just a single atom thick.
EXO, based in Livingstone, Scotland, has been awarded patent number GB2417660 for its Thermoknitt conductive polymeric yarn which allows its heat technology to be knitted into a fabric or a glove whic
Textile-based electronic tactile lighting switches were displayed by International Fashion Machines (IFM) at the Architectural Digest Home Design Show in New York from 8-11 March 2007.
UK nanoscale product enhancer P2i has received SATRA accreditation for its ion mask super hydrophobic surface enhancement for footwear.
The Zetasizer Nano series of instruments from the UK's Malvern Instruments measures the size of particles in a fluid down to less than a nanometre by observing the thermal movement, or Brownian motion
UK-based technology company d3o lab has closed a multi-million pound round of fundraising initiatives from private investors, to fuel international growth and commercial expansion.
Techtextil Rossija will change to a new May schedule in 2007 in order to give visitors and exhibitors the maximum advantage of their stay in the Russian capital.
Konarka Technologies is one of 13 solar technology projects to be awarded funding by the US Department of Energy (DOE).
Researchers in the US have shown that carbon nanotubes can significantly improve the efficiency of solar cells made of titanium dioxide, a readily available and cheap chemical routinely used in paint
US Global Nanospace (USGN) has announced that Vitusa Products is undertaking and funding a commercial feasibility study of its NanoFilterCX cigarette filters.
Nanocoatings and formulatilons specialist Nanogate AG, based at Saarbrucken in Germany, exceeded its sales targets for 2006.
Philadelphia-based PolyMedix, an emerging biotech company developing acute care products for infectious diseases and acute cardiovascular disorders based on biomimetics, has received US Patent 7,173,1
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