For the third time in seven years, The DECC Co., a coating applicator based in Grand Rapids, MI, has made the Inc. 500/5000 list of the nation’s fastest-growing private companies.
University of Alberta researchers have found that abundant materials in the earth's crust can be used to make inexpensive, easily manufactured nanoparticle-based solar cells.
Sun Chemical Performance Pigments has opened a new manufacturing facility for pigment dispersions and on-site technical service labs in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
A new innovation center of the Consumer Specialties Business Unit (CS) at Evonik’s Goldschmidtstraße site has been certified by the German Sustainable Building Council (DGNB).
Cells are very good at protecting their precious contents; as a result, it’s very difficult to penetrate their membrane walls to deliver drugs, nutrients or biosensors without damaging or destroying the cell. One effective way of doing so, discovered in 2008, is to use nanoparticles of pure gold, coated with a thin layer of a special polymer. But nobody knew exactly why this combination worked so well, or how it made it through the cell wall.