Recent news on Lanthanum

Hydrogen Absorption Material Could Cust Cost of Fuel Cell Cars  -  Apr 27, 2007
Fuel Cell Works (press release)Other hydrogen absorption compounds based on lanthanum and titanium have been developed, but have low absorption rates of 1-2 per cent.

Kobe Steel to Commercialize Iron Powder Able to Remove Arsenic ...  -  May 10, 2007
Tech-On English,Recently, rare-earth elements including cerium (Ce) and lanthanum (La) are used for adsorbing As, but this method has cost disadvantage because rare metals

The dark heart of the bomb  -  May 3, 2007
Nature.com (subscription),...(the elements of atomic number 58 to 71 that follow lanthanum in the periodic table) and the actinides (elements 90 to 103 following actinium).

Gold Canyon Announces Rare Metals and Rare Earth Elements at the ...  -  May 2, 2007
Web Services Journal,...and rare earth elements (REEs), including scandium (Sc), yttrium (Y), cerium (Ce), neodymium (Nd), samarium (Sm), gadolinium (Gd), and lanthanum (La).

Shire storms ahead with strong sales across the board  -  26 Apr 2007
Pharma Times (subscription),Sales of Elaprase (idursulfase) for Hunter syndrome, launched in August 2006, reached $26.6 million, while turnover from Fosrenol (lanthanum carbonate) for

SHIRE PLC - 1st Quarter Results  -  Apr 25, 2007
PR-Inside.com (Pressemitteilung),FOSRENOL® (lanthanum carbonate) - Hyperphosphatemia * FOSRENOL was launched in the UK on February 19, 2007. Launches in Spain, Italy and Canada are expected

Shire launches Fosrenol  -  Apr 2, 2007
Healthcare RepublicShire has launched Fosrenol (lanthanum) for the treatment of hyperphosphataemia in chronic renal failure patients on haemodialysis, or continuous ambulatory

Shire Pharmaceuticals Extends 'Kidney-Friendly' Cooking Program  -  Apr 10, 2007
Earthtimes.orgNearly 1000 patients have been treated with lanthanum carbonate for more than one year. Over 64000 patients have been treated with FOSRENOL(R).

Full Text  -  Apr 19, 2007
Science Magazine (subscription)The initial structure of La 2 CuO 4+ before time zero (t 0 ) is shown in the top right corner [copper (red spheres), oxygen (gray spheres), and lanthanum

BC diamond explorer would probably take a nickel for his thoughts  -  Apr 12, 2007
Ottawa Citizen (subscription),The plot for lanthanum (ppm) vs MgO (wt %) and the plot for palladium vs MgO lie in the alumina-undepleted komatiite field which is characteristic of the

Freegold Assessing New Grew Creek Models Following Uranium Discovery  -  Apr 10, 2007
CNW Telbec (Communiqués de presse),...area identified large areas of anomalous rare earth elements, including thorium (up to 58 ppm), lanthanum (up to 270 ppm) and uranium (up to 270 ppm).

Rohm and Haas to manufacture Harvard’s amidinate ALD precursors as ...  -  Apr 4, 2007
Semiconductor Today,Materials of Marlborough, MA, USA to manufacture and market rare-earth metal amidinate compounds, such as lanthanum, dysprosium and gadolinium.

Impossible Is Not The Right Word  -  Mar 30, 2007
Russia-InfoCenter,...containing a layer of high-temperature superconductor (cuprate of ittrium and barium) and a ferromagnetic (alloyed lanthanum manganite) and obtained by

Rohm and Haas to market hafnium alternative for high-k applications  -  Mar 27, 2007
Fabtech...such as lanthanum, dysprosium and gadolinium as alternatives to hafnium-based silicates that have only recently been demonstrated to be able to replace

Product Announcement: Spectroscopy System with 2.5% Energy ...  -  27 Mar 2007
FinanceVisor.com (press release),..."The new Lanthanum Bromide detectors offer a considerable advantage over conventional room temperature detectors," stated Rich Varall, PGT Sales Manager.

UK Launch Expands Global Reach of FOSRENOL(R)  -  Mar 5, 2007
CNW Telbec (Communiqués de presse),Shire recently announced the launch of FOSRENOL (lanthanum carbonate) in the United Kingdom (UK) following the product's successful approval for the control

Shire Extends FOSRENOL(R) | at Hand Program to Cover Medicare Part ...  -  Mar 8, 2007
Drug Newswire (press release),Through this program addition, Shire will now provide FOSRENOL(R) (lanthanum carbonate) -- a therapy used to treat hyperphosphatemia (high phosphorus levels

Wait for ALP U-turn, Summit chief urges  -  Mar 2, 2007
The Australian,Lanthanum, which is used in camera lenses, and cerium, used in aluminium alloys and carbon arc lighting, were associated with the uranium mined at Mary

Catalyst recycles waste methane into plastics  -  Mar 4, 2007
New Scientist (subscription),Now Johannes Lercher and colleagues at the Technical University of Munich in Germany have found that lanthanum chlorides catalyse a reaction between methane

Toward tapping the potential of 'stranded' natural gas  -  Feb 28, 2007
PhysOrg.com,The new study describes research on lanthanum-based catalysts that convert methane into a compound that would be an ideal chemical feedstock.

Air Products’ high-k materials enable semiconductor advances  -  Mar 23, 2007
Global SMT & Packaging,Air Products’ high-k offerings include precursors for hafnium, zirconium, aluminum and lanthanum. The various material choices present unique delivery

Felix Bronner: biologist and painter  -  Mar 23, 2007
Scientist,...collaborating with Boris Slepchenko, an associate professor at the University of Connecticut Health Center, on modeling the metabolism of lanthanum.

Unlocking the Secrets of High-temperature Superconductors  -  Mar 8, 2007
Chemie.de (press release),Each barium atom has one fewer electron than lanthanum, so increasing barium adds electron "holes," or the absence of electrons, to the system.

Air Products' high-k Materials Enable Semiconductor Advances  -  Mar 21, 2007
SYS-CON Media,Air Products' high-k offerings include precursors for hafnium, zirconium, aluminum and lanthanum. The various material choices present unique delivery

Dow Issues Methane Challenge  -  Mar 19, 2007
Chemical & Engineering News...issue of the Journal of the American Chemical Society (2007, 129, 2569) on the conversion of methane to methyl chloride using lanthanum-based catalysts.

Drug delivery: Transport in the fast lane  -  Mar 14, 2007
Nature.com (subscription),The device was built from a thin layer of lanthanum bismuth manganite, a material described as multiferroic because it has both ferroelectric and

Full Text  -  Mar 8, 2007
Science Magazine (subscription)Sharp interfaces had already been achieved in a different pair of oxide materials, strontium titanate/lanthanum titanate (13), and oscillations in

Boxxer Intersects Broad Intervals of Copper Mineralization at ...  -  Mar 5, 2007
CCNMatthews (press release),1%-10% specular hematite as replacement blebs, disseminated chalcopyrite mineralization and anomalous values of cobalt (up to 126 ppm), lanthanum (up to

A Practical Use for Waste Methane  -  Feb 26, 2007
MIT Technology Review,They show that mixing methane, hydrogen chloride, and oxygen in the presence of a lanthanum catalyst yields methyl chloride.

Fosrenol Launches In UK Today - New Option To Control Phosphate ...  -  Feb 22, 2007
Medical News Today (press release),Today Shire plc announced the launch of FOSRENOL® (lanthanum carbonate) in the United Kingdom following the product's authorisation as a phosphate binding

Catalysts May Save 'Stranded' Natural Gas  -  Feb 22, 2007
Post ChronicleUntil now, no practical technology has been found for using the methane contained in natural gas but the new study describes research on lanthanum-based

FOSRENOL(R) Launches in United Kingdom Today  -  Feb 22, 2007
Earthtimes.orgToday Shire plcannounced the launch of FOSRENOL(R) (lanthanum carbonate) in the UnitedKingdom following the product's authorisation as a phosphate binding

Portable Instruments identify radioactive isotopes.  -  Feb 2, 2007
ThomasNet Industrial News Room (press release),The SAM Revealer is an ultra-high performance system using Lanthanum Bromide scintillator detectors. The Revealer's 2%+ resolution across a large energy

Shire buys New River Pharmaceuticals for $2.6 billion  -  Feb 21, 2007
Pharma Times (subscription),...reached $23.6 million, although turnover from Fosrenol (lanthanum carbonate) for high blood phosphate levels fell 16% to $44.8 million.

Technically Speaking  -  Feb 15, 2007
PrintWeek,German company Nanosolutions has developed Ren-X, a solution incorporating nanosized particles of rare earth elements lanthanum and yttrium.

SHIRE PLC: Final Results  -  Feb 20, 2007
FinanzNachrichten.de,...capsules) COLAZIDE® (balsalazide) DAYTRANA™ (methylphenidate transdermal system) ELAPRASE™ (idursulfase) FOSRENOL® (lanthanum carbonate) GENE-ACTIVATED®

Blasts from the past  -  Feb 9, 2007
Los Alamos Monitor,...and perhaps only small amounts of plutonium, polonium, uranium, americium, curium, lanthanum and actinium, an assortment of radiological elements.

Shire plc: On Time Execution of Operating Plan Delivers Strong ...  -  Feb 20, 2007
PR Newswire (press release),DAYTRANA(TM) (methylphenidate transdermal system) ELAPRASE(TM) (idursulfase) FOSRENOL(R) (lanthanum carbonate) GENE-ACTIVATED(R) LIALDA(TM) (mesalamine)

日本设计出å?¯è½¬æ?¢ä¸ºé•œå­?的玻璃使窗户更具能效  -  Feb 1, 2007
辽�科技信�网,Previous attempts at switchable glass faced commercialization problems such as being too expensive (eg yttrium and lanthanum), or having a yellowish tint

Intel, Metal Gates and High-k: the media circus begins  -  Jan 28, 2007
EDN.com,Yet Biesemanns last fall observed that a growing literature suggests that materials based on Zirconium or Lanthanum could well supplant Hafnium very quickly

Bayer Yakuhin Ltd. has Filed Fosrenol(R) for the Treatment of ...  -  18 Jan 2007
Japan Corporate News (press release),Fosrenol(R) is a non-aluminium, non calcium phosphate binder that has a very high affinity for dietary phosphate, forming lanthanum phosphate, which passes

Rocher Deboule Property Review With IOCG Target and High-Grade ...  -  18 Jan 2007
Market Wire (press release)The anomalous lanthanum defined by the BC Geological Survey regional stream sediment surveys for the area and the anomalous air magnetic pattern defined by

Bayer Yakuhin Ltd. Has Filed Fosrenol(R) For The Treatment Of ...  -  Jan 4, 2007
Medical News Today (press release),Bayer Yakuhin Ltd. has submitted a marketing application for Fosrenol(R) (lanthanum carbonate) for the treatment of hyperphosphatemia in end stage renal

Full Text  -  Dec 21, 2006
Science Magazine (subscription)Valla et al. approached the problem differently, using photoemission techniques to study lanthanum barium copper oxide, which at a particular carrier

Bayer Yakuhin Ltd. has Filed Fosrenol(R) for the Treatment of ...  -  Dec 20, 2006
Japan Corporate News (press release),Fosrenol(R) is a non-aluminium, non calcium phosphate binder that has a very high affinity for dietary phosphate, forming lanthanum phosphate, which passes

Full Text  -  Dec 21, 2006
Science Magazine (subscription)Valla et al. approached the problem differently, using photoemission techniques to study lanthanum barium copper oxide, which at a particular carrier

Investing in US Natural Resources, Part 1: A Lithium Supply Crisis  -  Dec 13, 2006
Resource Investor,Toyota’s trading company, TTK, had negotiated supplies of, for the critical nickel metal hydride production, rare earth metals, such as lanthanum and cerium

Manufacturable, Leading-Edge Solutions for Logic and Memory ...  -  Dec 12, 2006
Nanotechwire.com,This report by Paul Kirsch and coauthors highlights SEMATECH’s achievement of a lanthanum-doped hafnium-silcon-oxyynitride metal gate stack that achieves

In the Shadow of Los Alamos  -  Dec 7, 2006
American ScientistFor nearly two decades the laboratory conducted implosion tests with radioactive lanthanum 140, secretly spewing dangerous fallout throughout Pueblo

Sallies' Fluorspar Output Starts to Climb  -  Nov 27, 2006
Resource Investor,...of which 92% was fluorspar and the rest was monazite containing rare earth elements such as cerium, lanthanum, neodymium, thorium and yttrium.

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