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Israeli Scientists Find Chemical Process That Could Lead To Hydrogen Fueled Cars
Agcat – Israeli Scientists Find Chemical Process That Could Lead To Hydrogen Fueled Cars. A team of Israeli researchers says it has taken an important step toward the creation of environmentally...
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Scientists Are Trying To Bottle Solar Energy And Turn It Into Liquid Fuel
Agcat – NBC NEWS — Scientists Are Trying To Bottle Solar Energy And Turn It Into Liquid Fuel. What if we could bottle solar energy so it could be used to power our homes and factories even when the...
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BASF Bets On New Recipe For Electric Car Batteries To Grab Growing Market
Agcat – German chemicals giant BASF is betting on a new recipe for electric car batteries which stretches the time between charges while cutting dependence on nickel to help shave costs and grab more...
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Brilliant Iron Molecule Could Provide Cheaper Solar Energy
Agcat – Brilliant Iron Molecule Could Provide Cheaper Solar Energy. For the first time, researchers have succeeded in creating an iron molecule that can function both as a photocatalyst to produce...
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Researchers discover new material to help power electronics
Finding could change how electronic devices are built Electronics rule our world, but electrons rule our electronics. A research team at The Ohio State University has discovered a way to simplify how...
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Researchers develop viable, environmentally-friendly alternative to Styrofoam
Washington State University researchers have developed an environmentally-friendly, plant-based material that for the first time works better than Styrofoam for insulation. The foam is mostly made from...
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New invention may extend the life of bridges
A new anchoring system for carbon fibre reinforcement which is five times stronger than steel reinforcement will be able to extend the service life and carrying capacity of concrete structures....
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Discovery reveals a sweet way to make everyday things nearly indestructible
The secret to making clothing practically indestructible could be the same thing that makes us grow out of it: sugar. A new discovery from the University of Virginia School of Medicine reveals how...
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Electron-behaving nanoparticles rock current understanding of matter
Discovery will lead to new methods for materials design It’s not an electron. But it sure does act like one. Northwestern University researchers have made a strange and startling discovery that...
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Sliding along on water
Environmentally friendly slide bearings with water lubrication Machine bearings are usually lubricated with various oils. But today large quantities of these oils still end up in the environment. The...
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Lasers Enable Engineers to Weld Ceramics, No Furnace Required
uses an ultrafast pulsed laser to melt ceramic materials along the interface and fuse them together… works in ambient conditions and uses less than 50 watts of laser power, making it more practical...
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Scientists invented how to improve steel properties by 100 times
Scientists from Tomsk Polytechnic University have updated the alloying process, i.e. improving the properties of metal with impurities, which not only enhances the wear resistance of materials but also...
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A combination of wood fibres and spider silk could rival plastic
The unique material outperforms most of today’s synthetic and natural materials by providing high strength and stiffness, combined with increased toughness Achieving strength and extensibility at the...
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Portsmouth scientist helps develop essential eco friendly ingredient from...
A scientist has discovered a way of using one of the world’s most abundant natural resources as a replacement for manmade chemicals in soaps and thousands of other household products. An innovative...
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Construction materials out of industrial waste
Two Articles Using industrial waste as insulation for buildings ETH spinoff FenX transforms industrial waste into a porous foam suitable for building insulation. Unlike other sustainable materials used...
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TU Delft researchers design new material by using Artificial Intelligence only
Researchers at TU Delft have developed a new material without doing any experimental tests at all. The supercompressible but strong material was designed by using Artificial Intelligence (AI) only....
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Top two prizes in MIT competition awarded for alternatives to nondegradable...
First place prize: ecoTrio, biodegradable plastic alternative… made exclusively from renewable resources,,, …that can be blended to become products ranging from hard plastics to plastic bags blends...
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The Wood Paradox
Destabilization renders wood more stable… …It can be deformed as required and is three times stronger than natural wood: the wood material developed by Marion Frey, Tobias Keplinger and Ingo Burgert at...
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Higher-performance, more cost-effective concretes
Concrete is making a comeback in urban architecture and infrastructure worldwide. Weina Meng, a professor of civil engineering at Stevens Institute of Technology, has as her chief research interest...
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Transparent wood: the building material of the future?
When Timothée Boitouzet studied architecture in Japan, where buildings need to survive earthquakes, he realised the next smart material might be one that humans have used for thousands of years—wood....
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