The words "Made in China" are synonymous with inexpensive electronics and housewares purchased in the United States. But a consequence of Americans' buying habits is air pollution that's also made in China, researchers say. Much of the ...
Traditional photovoltaic solar cells have an inherent limit on the efficiency at which they can convert sunlight into energy. This limit—based on the bandgap of the material used and known as the Shockley-Queisser limit—is about ...
Tags: Thermophotovoltaic, solar cells, Nature Nanotechnology, low-bandgap
India steel giant Tata Steel has announced that it has launched India's first ferromanganese and ferrochrome brands, introducing two new products named Tata Ferromag and Tata Tiscrome. Tata Steel is targeting a market size of 300,000 mt a ...
A new study from North Carolina State University indicates that even a sharp increase in the use of electric drive passenger vehicles (EDVs) by 2050 would not significantly reduce emissions of high-profile air pollutants carbon dioxide, ...
Tags: Consumer Electronics
Germany's economy and energy minister laid out Tuesday proposals to curb renewable energy subsidies and cap electricity prices but opponents fear they could jeopardise the country's much vaunted green energy transition. Just weeks after ...
Tags: Consumer Electronics, Electronics
The Chinese import price for Indian-origin ferrochrome (58-60% Cr) inched higher to 84-86 cents/lb CIF China Friday, from 84-85 cents/lb CIF a week ago, as Chinese buyers lifted their price ideas amid a strengthening Chinese yuan against ...
Tags: Origin Material, Chemicals
Oxford Instruments is offering an upgrade option for its ALD equipment to apply a bias voltage to the substrate, adding further control of the energy at the wafer surface in order to tune the properties of the deposited film. While scaling ...
Pouch packaging is exciting. Designers are excited about it. Retailers are excited by it. The result of these two things is that the pouch packaging hitting the shelves now has some real star performers – eye catching, innovative and ...
Tags: Packaging, Printing, Pouch packaging
South Africa's primary carbon and alloy steel product imports (excluding semi-finished steel, stainless steel and drawn wire) amounted to 123,141 mt in November last year, increasing by 1.1 percent compared to October and up 41.8 percent ...
Tags: Carbon Steel, Alloy Steel, Mineral
After an extensive search, Surftech announced the hiring of three new California sales representatives. In Northern CA, Surftech has hired Mike Rosen, Johnny Lyons and Rob Furtney of Livin the Dream Sales to service the SUP Market. Livin ...
Tags: Sporting Goods, Recreation
Plumes of several anthropogenic pollutants (especially particulate matter and carbon monoxide) located near ground level over China have for the first time been detected from space. The work was carried out by a team at the Laboratoire ...
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Braskem, the largest resin producer in the Americas and the world's leading biopolymer producer, was selected for the third consecutive time as a component of the Carbon Efficient Index (ICO2) of the BM&FBovespa - Securities, Commodities ...
Scientists said on Friday they had mapped ground-level air pollution in China from space for the first time, a feat that should help the fight against a notorious health hazard. French and Belgian atmospheric scientists used an infrared ...
Tags: Pollution, China's Pollution
The European Commission wants EU member states to accept common environment and health rules if they use controversial 'fracking' to develop shale gas resources. A document prepared for the Commission's 2030 Energy and Climate Package due ...
RadiciGroup, one of the world’s leaders in the polyamide 6 and 6.6 industry, is refocusing on its core nylon business (PA synthetic fibres) in Brazil. It has suspended Crylor acrylic fibre production at its Brazilian site Radici ...
Tags: Acrylic Fibre, RadiciGroup