PolyOne Wins Innovation Award for Advancements in China Plastics Industry SOURCE: PolyOne SHANGHAI – August 25, 2011 – PolyOne Corporation (NYSE: POL), a premier global provider of specialized polymer materials, services and solutions, announced today that it has received the 2011 Ringier Technology Innovation Award for the Plastics Industry for its breakthrough Stat-Tech™ NT carbon nanotube [...]

New Technology in Synthetic Decking Poised to Challenge Capped Composites WPC 2011 – Decking and Outdoor Living Products EXTON, Pa.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–08/16/2011–Synthetic decking manufacturers have staked future sales and profits on the performance and growth of ultra-low maintenance (ULM) decking, including capped composites and cellular PVC. These new products have gained rapid acceptance by consumers despite [...]

Promising Fire Retardant Results When Clay Nanofiller Has Space SOURCE: Nanotechnology Now Gaithersburg, MD–07/07/2011–That’s because the collaborators have demonstrated that the more widely and uniformly dispersed nanoscale plates of clay are in a polymer, the more fire protection the nanocomposite material provides. Writing in the journal Polymer,** the team reports that in tests of five [...]

Hands-on courses prepare students for careers in nanotechnology Date: 06/27/2011 By: Tom Curtis, University of Cincinnati SOURCE: Nanowerk News Two million workers are projected to be needed in nanotechnology-based businesses by 2020 in the United States alone. Today, demand far outstrips the availability of trained personnel and the College of Engineering and Applied Science is [...]