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Nano World: Stabilizing explosive elements
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Jun 26, 2006 |
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Capsules only nanometers or billionths of a meter wide that stabilize extremely dangerous compounds normally prone to igniting or exploding can safely generate more than enough hydrogen gas to beat U.S. Department of Energy ...
3-D photonic crystals will revolutionize telecommunications
Nov 20, 2007 |
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Smaller, faster, more efficient: BASF research scientists are helping to revolutionize the future world of telecommunications – with the aid of three-dimensional photonic crystals.
Chemists design world's lowest-density crystals for use in clean energy
Apr 12, 2007 |
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Chemists at UCLA have designed new organic structures for the storage of voluminous amounts of gases for use in alternative energy technologies.
Novel organic metal hybrids that will revolutionize materials science and chemical engineering
Feb 18, 2008 |
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A novel class of hybrid materials made from metals and organic compounds is changing the face of solid state chemistry and materials science just 10 years after its discovery, with applications already in safe storage of ...
World's first as fuel cell aircraft takes off in Germany
Jul 07, 2009 |
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The world's first piloted aircraft capable of taking to the air using only power from fuel cells took off in Germany Tuesday, producing zero carbon dioxide emissions, its makers said.
Foam reactor is 10 times more energy efficient
Sep 26, 2008 |
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There is considerable worldwide demand for new types of reactors for the rapid and well- controlled production of high value chemicals. Charl Stemmet has developed the porous foam reactor, which has an energy efficiency ten ...
Aqueous Nanocomposites as a New Binder for Coatings
Oct 01, 2004 |
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This year's FARBE & LACK prize awarded by the German trade magazine of the same name has gone to BASF: Dr. Franca Tiarks and Dr. Jörg Leuninger from Polymer Research and Development Architectural Coatings in the Regional B ...
The 1930s semi goes green
Apr 22, 2008 |
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Three million of them were built; they stimulated a boom in employment and turned a nation of shop keepers into a nation of home owners. The 1930s semi is an icon of its age but 80 years on it is about to undergo a green ...
Ordered Water: Just how much water is there in calcined gypsum?
Chemistry / Analytical Chemistry
Apr 15, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Gypsum was used as a building material in antiquity and is still widely used as a binder in plaster, drywall, and spackling paste. Known as dihydrate in construction chemistry, gypsum is a water-containing ...
Heads-up study of hair dynamics may lead to better hair-care products
Aug 17, 2008 |
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From frizzy perms to over-bleached waves, "bad hair days" could soon become a less frequent occurrence. Chemists report the first detailed microscopic analysis of what happens to individual hair fibers when ...
Opening day for a home of the future
Jan 28, 2008 |
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The first of six properties designed to show case state-of-the-art energy efficient housing will be officially opened on Wednesday January 30 2008 at The University of Nottingham.
Missed opportunities in nano
Aug 05, 2005 |
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Nanotechnology companies are missing opportunities to help corporate buyers integrate nanoscale components into advanced products, experts told UPI's Nano World.
Bringing the Biodiesel
Jun 08, 2009 |
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For some people, "biodiesel" might seem like a novelty product for which only hybrid car-driving tree huggers wouldn't mind paying a premium.
European funding for research on Biomolecular Nanomachines
Jun 03, 2005 |
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Scientists from the Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces, Potsdam, and from eight other scientific institutions in Germany, France, the Netherlands, and Italy have received 2 Million Euro from the ...
Economical and cleaner cars with lean-burn catalytic converter
Jul 05, 2007 |
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Dutch researcher Karen Scholz has taken a careful look at the properties of a new type of catalytic converter found in cars. For this so-called NOx Storage Reduction (NSR) catalytic converter the fuel is alternately combusted ...
