USA Education, Inc./USA Funds Scholarship Program Awards $21,000 in Scholarships to New Jersey Students.
INDIANAPOLIS, July 19 /PRNewswire/ -- USA Funds(R), the nation's largest student loan guarantor, and USA Education, Inc., the nation's leading provider of education funding, will jointly award 14 scholarships of $1,500 each to deserving college-bound students in New Jersey. The USA Education, Inc./USA Funds Scholarship Program, formerly...

Single-walled carbon nanotube gains approval in the USA.
Thomas Swan & Co Ltd, the UK based parent company of Swan Chemical Inc of New Jersey, USA, has announced that the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has granted an approval for manufacture and sale of the company's high-purity Elicarb[R] SW single-walled carbon nanotube product. This is...

Birds of The Dominican Republic and Haiti.
BIRDS OF THE DOMINICAN REPUBLIC AND HAITI. By Steven Latta, Christopher Rimmer, Allan Keith, James Wiley, Herbert Raffaele, Kent McFarland, and Eladio Fernandez. Barry Kent MacKay, Tracy Pedersen, and Kristin Williams, principal illustrators. Princeton University Press, Princeton, New Jersey, USA. 2006: vii + 258 pages, 57 color plates, 2...

Structured Materials Industries wins $750 000 to develop radiofrequency filters.
Researchers will be funded by the US Army to develop a specific class of radiofrequency (RF) filters. Structured Materials Industries (SMI), Inc of Piscataway, New Jersey, USA, says it has received Phase II funding from the Army Research Office to develop a class of compact, efficient, voltage-tunable,...

Room temperature curing.
Master Bond, based in Hackensack, New Jersey, USA, has developed an easy-to-use, two component epoxy adhesive for high-performance bonding applications called EP30. It is said to develop outstanding physical strength properties, even when cured at ambient temperatures. Cure can be accelerated by use of moderate heat. EP30...

Bard's stent graft wins US approval.
An endovascular stent graft, designed to treat stenoses in synthetic arteriovenous (AV) bypass grafts, gained US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval at the end of October. Developed by C R Bard Inc based in New Jersey, USA, the Flair stent graft with an optimized delivery system,...

Ceramic cores enhance IGT blades functionality.
A class of high-quality ceramic cores are being offered for the production of industrial gas turbine (IGT) blades by the Certech business of Morgan Technical Ceramics (MTC), based in Woodridge, New Jersey, USA. Within the industrial gas turbine industry, ceramic has emerged as the material of choice...

Thin sensor film measures stress.
Pressurex, manufactured by Sensor Products of Madison, New Jersey, USA, is a thin sensor film that carefully maps and measures the amount of interfacial stress exerted on honeycomb cores, composite lay-ups and bonded surfaces within composite structures. By using Pressurex to see how surface stresses are distributed,...

Collaboration to develop graphene composites.
A research programme to develop graphene-based formulations and composites will be conducted by the collaboration between BASF of Ludwigshafen, Germany, and Vorbeck Materials Corp, based in Jessup, Maryland, USA. As part of the collaboration, Vorbeck and BASF are developing dispersions of highly conductive graphene for producing electrically...