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How nickel-titanium nanometric-size particles change back to their memorized shape University of Constance physicists Daniel Mutter and Peter Nielaba have visualized changes in shape memory materials down to the nanometric scale in an article about to be published in EPJ B¹. Metallic alloys can be stretched or compressed in such a way that they stay deformed once the strain on the material has been released. Only shape memory alloys, however, can return to their original shape after...

XI'AN, China, Oct. 27, 2011 /PRNewswire-Asia-FirstCall/ -- China Power Equipment, Inc. ("China Power Equipment" or the "Company," OTC Bulletin Board: CPQQ), a manufacturer of a new generation of energy saving amorphous metal transformer cores and transformers in China, today provided update on business operations. The Company commenced commercial operations at its new amorphous alloy step down transformer production line in the third quarter this year. Mr. Song Yongxing, Chairman, President...

WASHINGTON, Oct. 23, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- For the first time in history, the U.S. Department of State (DOS) is evaluating international regulations that would ban mercury-containing products including silver/amalgam dental fillings, which contain 50% mercury and are already in the mouths of more than 122 million Americans. The DOS will present their official position on the use of mercury in amalgam fillings and other medical devices at a stakeholder meeting on Monday, October...

Recent breakthroughs have enabled scientists from the Northwestern University’s Center for Quantum Devices to build cameras that can see more than one optical waveband or “color” in the dark. The semiconducting material used in the cameras – called type-II superlattices – can be tuned to absorb a wide range of infrared wavelengths, and now, a number of distinct infrared bands at the same time. The idea of capturing light simultaneously at different wavelengths isn’t new....

GENEVA, Oct. 11, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The World Health Organization today released its long-awaited 2009 meeting report on the "Future Use of Materials for Dental Restorations" in preparation for the third of five Intergovernmental Committee deliberations that are expected to lead to the adoption of a legally binding treaty on mercury by 2013. Hailed by consumer groups as a "breakthrough," the WHO report suggests, over time, the global "phase down" of amalgam. "When an amalgam...

XI'AN, China, Sept. 27, 2011 /PRNewswire-Asia-FirstCall/ -- China Power Equipment, Inc. ("China Power Equipment", OTC Bulletin Board: CPQQ), a manufacturer of a new generation of energy saving amorphous metal transformer cores and transformers in China, today announced that the Company attended The ASEAN Energy Business Forum 2011 in Brunei from September 20 to 23, 2011. ASEAN Energy Business Forum is one of the biggest events in the energy industry, and is also one of the most important...

XI'AN, China, Aug. 11, 2011 /PRNewswire-Asia-FirstCall/ -- China Power Equipment, Inc. ("China Power Equipment", OTCBB: CPQQ), a manufacturer of highly efficiency and energy saving amorphous alloy transformer cores and amorphous core transformers in China, today announced that it will hold its second quarter 2011 financial results conference call at 8:30 am ET on Tuesday August 16, 2011. The Company anticipates releasing its financial results on August 15, 2011. To attend the call, please...

XI'AN, China, Aug. 2, 2011 /PRNewswire-Asia-FirstCall/ -- China Power Equipment, Inc. ("China Power Equipment", OTCQB: CPQQ), a manufacturer of highly efficiency and energy saving amorphous alloy transformer cores and amorphous core transformers in China,today announced that the Company has retained MZ-HCI as its investor relations advisor. MZ-HCI will assist China Power Equipment with communicating its corporate, financial and investor developments to shareholders worldwide, while...

XI'AN, China, June 16, 2011 /PRNewswire-Asia-FirstCall/ -- China Power Equipment, Inc. ("China Power" or "China Power Equipment" or the "Company," OTCBB: CPQQ), the designer, manufacturer, and distributor of a new generation of energy saving electric transformers and transformer cores in the People's Republic of China, today reported a summary of the conference it co-hosted with Asia Energy Platform to help improve the electric grid performance in rural China and other countries. The...

SARASOTA, Fla. and BOLINGBROOK, Ill., May 13, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Sunovia Energy Technologies, Inc. (OTC BB: SUNV) and EPIR Technologies, Inc. and affiliates announced today that they have settled the litigation between them that arose in August of 2010. The terms of the settlement provide that Sunovia and EPIR will share equally in the revenues from the jointly developed solar patent 12/261,827 published in 2010. In addition, each company will return to the other certain shares issued in...