News tagged with liquid wood

New biofuels processing method for mobile facilities

Chemical engineers at Purdue University have developed a new method to process agricultural waste and other biomass into biofuels, and they are proposing the creation of mobile processing plants that would ...

Technology / Engineering

created Jul 07, 2010 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (8) | comments 4 | with audio podcast

Scientists discover eco-friendly wood dissolution

Scientists at Queen's University Belfast have discovered a new eco-friendly way of dissolving wood using ionic liquids that may help its transformation into popular products such as bio fuels, textiles, clothes and paper.

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created May 20, 2009 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (4) | comments 0

Biomass as a source of raw materials

For the protection of the environment, and because of the limited amount of fossil fuels available, renewable resources, such as specially cultivated plants, wood scraps, and other plant waste, are becoming the focus of considerable ...

Chemistry / Other

created May 12, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (5) | comments 4

Unlocking wood's energy

Deftly using a pair of tweezers, Scott Geib pulls apart the insides of a yellowish, wormlike critter - the larva of a tree-devouring pest called the Asian long-horned beetle. Something in the insect's gut allows it to make ...

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

created Mar 01, 2009 | popularity 3.9 / 5 (9) | comments 5




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Amazon fungi found that eat polyurethane, even without oxygen

(PhysOrg.com) -- Until now polyurethane has been considered non-biodegradable, but a group of students from Yale University in the US has found fungi that will not only eat and digest it, they will do so even in the absence ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Feb 03, 2012 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (46) | comments 27 | with audio podcast report

Pioneering engineers turn destructive plant into valuable carbon

Researchers in Scotland and Cuba are ridding the Caribbean nation of a major ecological problem while producing one of the world's most sought after substances.

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

created Jan 17, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

12 new flavonoids discovered in Kew tree

Scientists at Kew interested in the classification of legumes have been studying the chemistry of the Kentucky yellow-wood (Cladrastis kentukea). Evidence from DNA sequencing suggested that this species is ...

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Jan 10, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Researchers deconstruct the physics of writing with a fountain pen

Wetting a fountain pen to compose a thank-you note is a grand way to express gratitude for a holiday gift, yet we often don’t give a thought to what happens when ink moves from pen to paper. But for a ...

Physics / General Physics

created Dec 30, 2011 | popularity 3.9 / 5 (17) | comments 20 | with audio podcast

Japan's Sony generates power from paper

Japanese electronics giant Sony on Thursday revealed technology that generates electricity from shredded paper.

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

created Dec 15, 2011 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (7) | comments 2

Milk powder better than liquid drops to treat milk allergies

(Medical Xpress) -- A small study by researchers at the Johns Hopkins Children’s Center and Duke University shows that eating higher doses of milk protein in the form of dry powder substantially outperforms lower-dose ...

Medicine & Health / Health

created Dec 14, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

It's elemental: Paper celebrates discovery of iodine

(PhysOrg.com) -- It's not every day that an element gets to celebrate a bicentennial, and a University of Delaware professor is pleased to have been invited to the "birthday party" for iodine, which was discovered ...

Chemistry / Materials Science

created Dec 06, 2011 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Cheap beads offer alternative solar-heating storage

A cheap material that can store heat energy collected from the sun during the day that can be released slowly over night has been developed by researchers in the India. The material based on paraffin wax and stearic acid ...

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

created Dec 02, 2011 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (9) | comments 16 | with audio podcast

Physicists develop a method of detecting counterfeit whiskey using spectroscopy

(PhysOrg.com) -- Physicists Praveen Ashok, Bavishna Praveen, and K. Dholakia working together at the University of St Andrews in Scotland have developed a method for testing whiskey for authenticity using ...

Physics / Optics & Photonics

created Nov 02, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 3 | with audio podcast report

The spark of a new era

Seventy-five years ago this Halloween, at 9 a.m., a truck from the California Institute of Technology turned on to a road owned by the Pasadena Water Department and after heading down a small hill came to ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Oct 20, 2011 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (8) | comments 11 | with audio podcast


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