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Efficient Gas Dehydration Technology
The process reduces size, weight, and cost of natural gas dehydration for land-based and offshore operations.
Process Could Yield Trans Fat-Free Soybean Oil Product
The intense heat required in the conventional hydrogenation process causes the formation of harmful trans fats.
Liquid Thermoelectric Materials Transform Waste
The materials are both shape engineerable and geometrically compatible, in that they can be brush painted directly on almost any surface.
Bendable Titanium Suspension Could Survive Blasts
The memory metal alloy is made from the same type of material used in flexible glasses and allows the suspension to bounce back into shape after an impact so the vehicle can continue its mission.
Method for Storing Vaccines at Room Temperature
Shipping vaccines in an unbroken temperature-controlled supply chain all the way to recipients is a major logistical and financial challenge in remote areas and developing countries.
Electric Current Used to Kill Drug-Resistant Bacteria
When doctors use antibiotics to treat a bacterial infection, many of these microorganisms die. Bacteria that form a biofilm are harder to kill because antibiotics only partially penetrate this layer.
Oil Recycled from Tires Yields a Cleaner Diesel Blend
When the oil was blended with diesel, it was found to produce a fuel with lower emissions and no loss of engine performance.
Squeezing Light Into New Miniature Devices
With the end of Moore's Law apparently approaching, the future of big data processing will require new technologies to allow high-performance computers with faster operations.
Human Sweat-Detecting Sensor
The research team developed the odor-detecting sensor from a membrane protein found in the antenna of mosquitoes called an olfactory receptor.
Mimicking Bug Eyes Could Brighten Reflective Signs
Retroreflective materials, including some tapes and road paints, work by bouncing light back toward the original source, such as a car’s headlights, making them bright and easy to see.
Starter Fertilizer Does Little to Boost Corn Yield
The assumption is that "in-furrow application" allows farmers to plant their corn earlier than they otherwise could. This means a longer growing season and, the hope is, greater yield benefits.
New Catalysts Improve Path to More Sustainable Plastics
The new boron nitride catalysts produce a greater proportion of propene during the reaction than do traditional oxide catalysts.
Boosting Heat Transfer in Microelectronics
With the current trend of constant increases in power and device miniaturization, efficient heat management has become a serious issue for reliability and performance.
New Process Quickly Analyzes Acrylamide in Food
Acrylamide is a potentially toxic compound that forms in potatoes and other foods when they are fried, roasted or baked at high temperatures.
Drugs from Dirt
In soil collected from city parks, the team dug up genetic evidence of bacteria capable of producing a wide range of compounds whose potent effects might be harnessed for medicines.
Soil Carbon Release Likely Understated
The study predicts that for one degree of warming, about 30 petagrams of soil carbon will be released into the atmosphere, or twice as much as is emitted annually due to human-related activities.
Cooling Ceiling Panels Provide Alternative to Air Conditioning
A key to the technology is that the heat-conducting polymer film operates well below the dew point and so avoids the problem of condensation.
Biomethane Fuel for Trucks Launches in the UK
Biomethane is sourced from anaerobic digestion plants and distributed through gas pipelines to refueling stations.
Salt Marshes Have Limited Ability to Absorb Excess Nitrogen
Despite the abundant supply of nitrogen, a key plant nutrient, vegetation in the fertilized marshes did not grow much larger than that in unfertilized marshes.
Sodium Bicarbonate Is an Environmentally Friendly Blasting Abrasive
Soda blasting offers a gentle yet effective way to clean, remove paint, and degrease a wide variety of substrates, including steel, lead, aluminum, alloys, plastics, rubbers, composites, and masonry materials.