Two university research teams have worked together to produce the world's fastest thin-film organic transistors, proving that this experimental technology has the potential to achieve the performance needed for high-resolution television ...
Tags: thin-film organic transistors, high-resolution television screens
Global CO2 emissions continue to rise—in 2012 alone, 35.7 billion tons of this greenhouse gas entered the atmosphere. Some of it is absorbed by the oceans, plants and soil. They provide a significant reservoir of carbon. Scientists ...
Tags: CO2, CO2 emissions, reservoir of carbon, organic carbon, soil
The Canadian International Trade Tribunal (CITT) has announced the results of the expiry review of the antidumping (AD) duty on hot rolled carbon steel plate and high-strength low-alloy steel plate imports from Bulgaria, the Czech Republic ...
Tags: Steel, Steel News, Hot Rolled Plate, Hot Rolled Plate Import
Siemens Energy has received an order from Sinopec Jiujiang Petrochemical Company for the supply of a refinery wastewater treatment system that includes PACT biological treatment, Wet Air Regeneration (WAR) and a Hydro-Clear filter system, ...
The need for energy efficiency in the numerous critical and energy-consuming operations of the chemical and petrochemical industry is lending impetus to the automation and software solutions market in Southeast Asia (SEA), Australia and New ...
Tags: Southeast Asia, Australia and New Zealand, automation, software solutions
It's reported that Chung Hung Steel, one of the major carbon steelmakers in Taiwan announced to hike its export prices for hot rolled coils (HRC) and cold rolled coils (CRC) by US$10~US$20/ton for February deliveries in order to reflect ...
Tags: Taiwanese Steel, Chung Hung, Coil Steel, Export Prices
A group at Harvard University has created an aqueous flow battery that uses a quinone, a type of organic molecule that happens to have favorable electrochemical properties. The particular quinone they used is nearly identical to one found ...
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Hong Kong-based luxury vehicle maker Infiniti Motor is set to unveil its new Q50 Eau Rouge concept at the 2014 North American International Auto Show in Detroit on 13 January 2014. Q50 Eau Rouge is a high-performance design concept based ...
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The American Home Furnishings Alliance has awarded Ethan Allen its Sustainable by Design registration, recognizing the manufacturer and retailer's environmentally friendly manufacturing processes. The company also has expanded its ...
The idea of everyone in a community pitching in is so universal that even bacteria have a system to prevent the layabouts of their kind from enjoying the fruit of others' hard work, Princeton University researchers have discovered. Groups ...
Tags: Vibrio cholerae, loafers, bacteria, freeloader
BASF is globally launching a new ultra-high molecular weight cationic powder flocculant range with Zetag ULTRA for solid/liquid separation in industrial and municipal waste water treatment. Zetag ULTRA has been developed combining BASF's ...
New advanced materials like MOFs (metal organic frameworks), advanced high-strength steel, and carbon nanotubes have the potential to enable novel products and disrupt existing businesses. However, material commercialization timelines are ...
Tags: Construction, Decoration
Scientists have reproduced the conditions inside the magma chamber of a supervolcano to understand what it takes to trigger its explosion. These rare events represent the biggest natural catastrophes on Earth except for the impact of giant ...
Tags: supervolcano, explosion, synchrotron X-rays, supervolcano eruption
Galaxies can be remarkably dusty places and supernovas are thought to be a primary source of that dust, especially in the early Universe. Direct evidence of a supernova's dust-making capabilities, however, has been slim and cannot account ...
Tags: supernovas, dust-making, Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array
Earth may not have possessed the continents it does now if not for life, instead becoming a planet covered nearly entirely in ocean. If not for life, Earth may not have possessed the continents it does now, instead becoming a planet ...
Tags: planet, extraterrestrial life, alien worlds