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Ener1 Acquires One of South Korea's Largest Lithium-Ion Cell Producers

Ener1, Inc., a leading manufacturer of lithium-ion batteries for the automotive industry, announced today the closing of its acquisition of an 83% interest in Enertech International, one of South Korea's largest lith...

28 Oct 2008

World’s First Thin-Film Battery with Integrated Battery Management

Cymbet Corporation has developed a breakthrough in battery technology with the introduction of the EnerChip™ CC CBC3112 and CBC3150 thin-film batteries with integrated battery management. The EnerChip CC combines t...

27 Oct 2008

Double-Patterning Immersion Lithography and Advanced Strained-Silicon Technology Used to Deliver Fully Functional 28nm Chips

UMC, a leading global semiconductor foundry, today announced that it has manufactured the foundry industry's first fully functional 28nm SRAM chips. The chips are based on UMC's independently developed low-leakag...

27 Oct 2008

Solvay Joins Holst Centre Research Program on Systems-in-Foil

The international chemical and pharmaceutical group Solvay today signs an agreement to become part of the research network of Holst Centre, an open-innovation initiative by IMEC (Belgium) and TNO (The Netherlands).

24 Oct 2008

Water-Soluble Organic Electronic Materials that Spontaneously Assemble Themselves into Wires

From pacemakers constructed of materials that so closely mimic human tissues that a patient's body can't discern the difference to devices that bypass injured spinal cords to restore movement to paralyzed limbs, the possibilities presented by organic electronics read like something from a science fiction novel.

24 Oct 2008

Scientists Store and Retrieve Data Inside an Atom

Another step towards quantum computing - the Holy Grail of data processing and storage - was achieved when an international team of scientists that included researchers with the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) were able to successfully store and retrieve information using the nucleus of an atom.

24 Oct 2008