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Major award for dye-sensitized solar cell inventor

1 October 2010

The 2010 Millennium Technology Prize has been won by Professor Michael Gratzel, Director of the Laboratory of Photonics and Interfaces at Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (EPFL), for his de

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Dow invests in Bladeskyn manufacturer

1 October 2010
Dow Chemical Company has made a minority equity investment in Blade Dynamics, a designer and manufacturer of advanced wind turbine blades based on proprietary materials and structural technologies.
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Biomimetic nanofibres for bone regeneration

1 October 2010
A Stevens Institute of Technology scientist aims to establish a family of biomimetic nanofibres containing collagen and calcium phosphate, to support the phenotype of boneforming cells.
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Phase II SBIR contract for Nanocomp

1 October 2010
Nanocomp Technologies, the developer of energy saving performance materials and component products from carbon nanotubes (CNTs), has been awarded a multi-million dollar Phase II contract by the US Air
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Green power for green production

1 October 2010
A 120-metre high Ecotricity windmill from will be powering operations at Cardiff-based G24 Innovations by the end of 2010.
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Extrusion options from Hills

1 October 2010
The best route to nanofibres now involves processing a one denier 300 'islands in a sea' bicomponent spunbonds, rather than employing meltblown technology.
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Breaking down the language barrier with photovoltaics

1 October 2010
Photovoltaic applications could extend far beyond traditional solar modules and something currently being talked about at Bayer MaterialScience is a 'translator shirt'.
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Energy harvesting clothing and carpets project

1 October 2010
Dr Steve Beeby and a team of researchers at Southampton University's School of Electronics and Computer Science (ECS) aim to generate energy through human movement - eliminating the need to change bat
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Smart Fabrics 2011

1 October 2010
The 7th annual Smart Fabrics conference will take place on 4-6 April 2011 at the Hotel Russell in London, UK.
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High surface energy benefit of backsheet

1 October 2010
BioSolar, the California-based developer of new technology to produce bio-based materials from renewable plant sources to reduce the cost of photovoltaic (PV) solar modules, has reported another benef
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Assistance with growing old

1 October 2010
At the Advanced Technologies for an Ageing Population conference to be held in Glasgow, Scotland, next March, the focus will be on how modern enabling technologies can help to provide improved treatme
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Low cost conductive nonwovens

1 October 2010
Building on its 135 years of experience in papermaking, Kimberly-Clark has developed a new material in response to the need for low cost conductors in consumer products.
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Powering China with Dyneema

1 October 2010
Power lines connecting the large Chinese island of Zhoushan to the mainland across an important shipping lane are being constructed quickly and safely as a result of pulling lines made from lightweigh
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Walking works of art

1 October 2010
In a neat reversal of e-textiles which are employed to power and operate mobile phones, the Vanilla Series is a range of illuminating jackets which can be dynamically controlled by a new iPhone app.
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New nanocoating product turns up the heat

1 October 2010
At the recent Composites Europe show in Essen, Germany, FutureCarbon GmbH introduced CarboImpreg - a new product based on carbon nanomaterials.
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Titanium coating for Canada Place

1 October 2010
Around 27,800 metres of new TiO2-coated PTFE fibreglass fabric membrane will be supplied by New York headquartered Birdair for the new roofing system of the landmark Canada Place in Vancouver, British
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Anti-stink Agion is triclosan free

1 October 2010
More than 65,000 consumers from 130 countries have signed up to participate in an experiment to test the effectiveness of clothing manufactured with Agion Active odour-elimination finish.
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Losing the Velcro effect

1 October 2010

Nagendra Anantharamaiah, of the Nonwovens Institute at North Carolina State University, is developing nonwovens for performance apparel.

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NanoRidge applies CNTs to body armour

1 October 2010
SouthWest NanoTechnologies (SWeNT) is manufacturing speciality multi-wall carbon nanotubes for NanoRidge Materials.
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Wavy surface improves filter bag performance

1 October 2010
HVAC bag filters generally have to fit in 24-inch square ducts - and at the 2010 Techtextil Conference held in Atlanta, Georgia, Dave Healey of Hollingsworth & Vose Company reviewed the problems o
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