In that case, both the plastic and the oil-based sauce are hydrophobic and interact together.
The team's discovery comes after nearly a century of failed attempts by other labs to compress separate carbon-containing molecules like liquid benzene into an ordered diamond-like nanomaterial.
We used the large high-pressure Paris-Edinburgh device at Oak ridge National Laboratory to compress a 6-millimeter-wide amount of benzene a gigantic amount compared with previous experiments said Malcolm Guthrie of the Carnegie Institution for Science
The molecule they compressed is benzene a flat ring containing six carbon atoms and six hydrogen atoms.
During the compression process the scientists report the flat benzene molecules stack together bend and break apart.
That the atoms of the benzene molecules link themselves together at room temperature to make a thread is shocking to chemists and physicists.
when the benzene molecule breaks under very high pressure its atoms want to grab onto something else
This benzene then becomes highly reactive so that when we release the pressure very slowly an orderly polymerization reaction happens that forms the diamond-core nanothread.
Our discovery that we can use the natural alignment of the benzene molecules to guide the formation of this new diamond nanothread material is really interesting
We also came up with nanostructured cleaning fluids such as oil-in-water microemulsions for the removal of dirt and unwanted coatings on works of art.
This progress has important applications in sectors such as chemical, petrochemical and energy, thus becoming a useful technology in all industrial applications using heat transfer systems such as solar power plants, nuclear power plants, combined-cycle power plants and heating, among other.
The most widely used thermal fluids are water, ethylene glycol, thermal oils and molten salts. One characteristic that is common to all of them, according to Juliá, is"their low thermal conductivity,
the nanofluid developed is based on a heat transfer oil (diphenyl/diphenyl oxide) that is widely used in industry,
But pentacene made of five benzene molecules joined in a line breaks down under normal environmental conditions.
where they focused on the oil wetting property. From this they developed self-cleaning surfaces under water with inspiration coming from fish skin.
but by the sum of multiple weaker forces the attraction of positive and negative charges and the tendency of nonpolar (oil-like) substances to seek each other
so particles of mud soot oil or wine stick right where they land. Over the next couple of months Ultratech a Florida-based company will roll out Ultra-Ever Dry a coating that repels most muck.
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#Sewer Sensors Detect Homemade Bombs As They're Being made Could the secret to finding illicit explosives labs before they harm anyone be hiding in a city's poop?
Some drugs are entirely fakenake oil, sawdust, chalk. But others, particularly those in developing countries, might contain an ineffective amount of medicine or release the right amount in the wrong way;
While the greenbacks involved are a relatively small amount compared to the trillions invested in global oil coal
Heirs to a major oil fortune are pulling their money out of the industry. The move will likely put wind under the wings of the fledging international fossil fuel divestment movement
Cargo ships which transport everything from bananas coffee grain coal heavy equipment chemicals oil and gas are the backbone of intercontinental trade
oil and its derivatives for example can double in value within weeks in the event of a oil crisis).
the other will conduct commercial environmental monitoring in the Arctic circle assist emergency response teams in oil spill monitoring
Jordan Minister of Planning and International Cooperation. ee one of the few countries in the middle East that doesn have oil.
fuelled by Norway's state oil revenuesivest all of its holdings in companies linked to fossil fuels.
#Oil spill leaves half million Mexicans without water The city of Villahermosa in Tabasco state closed schools on Wednesday to protect the health of students following the incident.
Thieves tapped an oil pipeline operated by state-run energy firm Pemex on Sunday, causing a spill that affected local rivers
because cleanup crews must remove more oil near the plants. The Tabasco state government urged residents to ration water
Stealing oil has become a lucrative activity among drug cartels, forcing Pemex to stop shipping finished fuel through its pipelines after discovering 3, 674 illegal taps last year.
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#Error-correction strategy allows precise measurement of transcriptome in single cells The approach, called multiplexed error-robust fluorescence in situ hybridization (MERFISH),
#Edible Oil Producers Fight Battle Against Cheap Palm oil Imports Dewas: Rajesh Agrawal had built two large oilseed crushing mills in central India,
betting on rising local consumption of edible oils. But now after 30 years of soaring demand and good business, his main mill is shut
undermining Prime minister Narendra Modi's efforts to make the country self-sufficient in edible oils, overseas purchases
of which exceed $10 billion per year-India's third-highest such spend after oil and gold."
At the current price level other oils can't compete with palm oil, "said Nitesh Shahra, president of the refinery division of Ruchi Soya, the country's biggest edible oil refiner."
"Already our import dependency has gone up from 30 per cent to nearly 70 per cent in the last few years.
In the past 20 years, India's edible oil output has risen only about a third whereas imports have surged twelve times to 14.4 million tonnes to keep pace with growing consumption,
"Our oilseed and edible oil production will not rise unless we restrict cheaper imports.""Government Push For Oilseeds The finance ministry is looking into requests for a hike in import duties on crude edible oils to 25 per cent from 7. 5 per cent,
and to 45 per cent on the refined variety from 15 per cent, government sources said.
"We can't sell edible oils at higher prices due to cheaper imports and oilseed farmers are not ready to accept lower prices,
Industrial applications in everything from medical and pharma to oil and gas are huge s
The ecological devastation from major oil spills can last for years, killing marine life and destroying the quality of one of our most precious resources,
The team began development on the material four years ago for applications such as cleaning up oil spills
Most of the existing uses for old tyres involve making low value secondary products such as asphalt, aggregate for cement, artificial reefs, footwear, plastic and rubber composites,
The company has taken renewable plant oils and added Tungsten and Carbon nanotubes to the oil blend.
The nanotechnology engineered into the organic oil blend is the key to its ability to transfer heat,
and various highly viscous all natural plant oils to form Nanosave N1-Organic. Plans are in the works to seek a Green Seal Certificate in the near future.
It has proven to be one of the best selling oil products in the Nanosave N1 lineup. http://www. amazon com/nanosave Video Link:
or extract materials is valuable for uses such as separating components of oil, gas and wastewater,
There is a growing adoption of tank level monitoring system in various sectors, such as oil & fuel
In 2014, the oil & fuel application was the largest segment of the global tank level monitoring application market,
oil and gas pipelines and nuclear plants has been developed by researchers at the University of Strathclyde with inspiration from the natural world.
If there are defects in a nuclear plant or an oil pipeline, we would be able to detect cracks that have a range of sizes
and Israel that Tehran successfully reverse-engineered before turning it into their own cyber weapon to destroy the servers of Saudi arabia's national oil and natural gas company.
"Attacks by Iranian hackers have targeted the military, oil and gas, energy and utilities, transportation, airlines, airports, hospitals and aerospace industries, among others,
and oil and gas pipelines) had been attacked by Russian hackers using Blackenergy malware, ABC reported. It was not the first time hackers tried to cripple vital US infrastructure in 2012,
Scientists Enlist E coli To Make Planet-Saving Plastic Out Of Practically Nothing The Intertubes have buzzing with news of a new way to make plastic without using petroleum or petrochemicals.
which are difficult to maintain, like underground buildings, motorways or oil rigs,'added Dr Jonkers.''It is extremely durable.
The project will accept about 120,000 tons of food waste, 30,000 tons of fats, oils and greases,
began developing the material about four years ago for applications such as cleaning up oil or chemical spills
"Xylochemistry could represent an important alternative to the climate-damaging use of the earth's finite resources of natural oil and gas in the production of chemicals."
including water, oil, highly corrosive media, biological fluids containing bacteria and blood. Not only did the material repel all the liquid
a chemical produced by steam cracking of naphtha or by catalytic cracking of gas oil. Butadiene is an impurity in propene streams that must be removed from the stream through hydrogenation
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and the Arab oil embargo of the 1970s made the Concorde economically unviable and it ended up as a tiny fleet, only flying with British airways and Air france because of French and British government pressure.
Modumetal's corrosion-resistant metal laminates have won already over the oil and gas industry, which require longer-lasting materials for the construction of oil rigs.
Car companies, the aviation industry as well as bridge manufacturers could be next in line. Corrosion resistance isn't the only super-trait of these metals.
"Because oil and water don't mix, the oil wets the particles and creates capillary bridges between them
so that the particles stick together on contact, "said Orlin Velev, INVISTA Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular engineering at NC State and the corresponding author of the paper."
Chilling the oil is like drying the sandcastle. Reducing the temperature from 45 degrees Celsius to 15 degrees Celsius freezes the oil
and makes the bridges fragile, leading to breaking and fragmentation of the nanoparticle chains. Yet the broken nanoparticles chains will reform
the oil liquefies and an external magnetic field is applied to the particles.""In other words, this material is temperature responsive,
a chemical produced by steam cracking of naphtha or by catalytic cracking of gas oil. Butadiene is an impurity in propene streams that must be removed from the stream through hydrogenation
Motor oil contains chemical additives that extend how long engines can run without failure, but, despite decades of ubiquity, how such additives actually work to prevent this damage have remained a mystery.
In their experiment, the researcher immersed the entire cantilever-tip apparatus in ZDDP-infused oil,
and sheared the ZDDP-containing oil between the tip and sample, the faster the films grew.
as they would otherwise quickly use up the small amount of ZDDP in the oil.""The tribofilm knows
"Ultimately we hope this will help us to rationally design even smarter engine oils; there's a lot of opportunity to improve fuel economy in vehicles,
controllable stimuli have applications in various fields, from biomedical science to the oil industry. Now, A*STAR researchers have created a self-assembling polymeric material that changes its structure
The researchers anticipate that their smart material will have other potential applications in enhanced oil recovery and biomedical science n
#Engineers invent two-dimensional liquid (Nanowerk News) Where water and oil meet, a two-dimensional world exists.
Their soft nanoparticles stick to the plane where oil and water meet, but do not stick to one another.
"The researchers created a 2-D liquid consisting of nanoparticles at the interface between a drop of oil and the surrounding water.
By sucking the oil back into a pipette, they could infer some of the physical rules that govern this system.
The researchers created a 2-D liquid consisting of nanoparticles at the interface between a drop of oil and the surrounding water.
By sucking the oil back into a pipette, they could infer some of the physical rules that govern this system.
and an oil-loving tail, and the way they are attached to the central particle allows them to contort themselves so both sides are happy
the researchers dripped a particle-containing an oil droplet out of a pipette into water.
which point the researchers could change their packing density by sucking some of the oil back into the pipette.
Attempts to use polymers with benzene-like delocalised electron bonding alleviated issues around the thermal durability to a certain extent.
They used a fused ring system of molecules with benzene-like delocalised electron bonding so that the material would readily crystallise.
#'Parachuting'boron on benzene rings (Nanowerk News) Tuning the para position of benzene moieties is significant for creating biologically active compounds and optoelectronic materials.
Yet, attaching a functional handle specifically at the para position of benzene has been challenging due to multiple reactive sites on the ring.
Chemists at ITBM, Nagoya University have developed a novel iridium catalyst that enables highly para-selective borylation on benzene,
Itami and his coworkers have generated a new catalyst that uses steric interactions with the benzene substituent,
making it possible to conduct late stage diversification of core structures containing benzene. The study, published online on April 10, 2015 in the Journal of the American Chemical Society("para-CH Borylation of Benzene derivatives by a Bulky Iridium Catalyst),
The positions right next to the substituent on the benzene i e. the ortho-(2-or 6-)positions are blocked usually by the substituent during C-H borylation.
However, a mixture of meta-(3-or 5-)products and para-(4-)products are observed usually in a 2: 1 ratio upon C-H borylation of a monosubstituted benzene.
and materials science for creating benzene-containing functional molecules, I figured that para-selective C-H functionalization would be an extremely useful technique for the late-stage diversification of core structures.
Caramiphen, an anticholinergic agent used for the treatment of Parkinson's disease contains a monosubstituted benzene moiety along with ester and amine groups.
#Nature-inspired nanotechnology mesh captures oil but lets water through (Nanowerk News) The unassuming piece of stainless steel mesh in a lab at The Ohio State university doesn't look like a very big deal,
but oil doesn't, thanks to a nearly invisible oil-repelling coating on its surface. In tests, researchers mixed water with oil and poured the mixture onto the mesh.
The water filtered through the mesh to land in a beaker below. The oil collected on top of the mesh
and rolled off easily into a separate beaker when the mesh was tilted. This mesh, which is covered in a coating invented at The Ohio State university, captures oil (red) while water (blue) passes through.
Photo by Jo Mcculty, courtesy of The Ohio State university. The mesh coating is among a suite of nature-inspired nanotechnologies under development at Ohio State
and described in two papers in the journal Nature Scientific Reports("Mechanically durable, superoleophobic coatings prepared by layer-by-layer technique for anti-smudge and oil-water separation"and"Nanomechanical behavior of Mos2 and WS2 multi-walled nanotubes and Carbon nanohorns").
"Potential applications range from cleaning oil spills to tracking oil deposits underground.""If you scale this up,
you could potentially catch an oil spill with a net, "said Bharat Bhushan, Ohio Eminent Scholar and Howard D. Winbigler Professor of mechanical engineering at Ohio State.
The work was inspired partly by lotus leaves, whose bumpy surfaces naturally repel water but not oil.
To create a coating that did the opposite, Bhushan and postdoctoral researcher Philip Brown chose to cover a bumpy surface with a polymer embedded with molecules of surfactant--the stuff that gives cleaning power to soap and detergent.
"He explained that certain combinations of layers yield nanoparticles that bind to oil instead of repelling it.
Such particles could be used to detect oil underground or aid removal in the case of oil spills.
The shape of the nanostructures plays a role, as well. In another project, research assistant Dave Maharaj is investigating
which mix well with oil. The nanotubes are approximately a thousand times smaller than a human hair.
"Bhushan envisions that the molybdenum compound's compatibility with oil, coupled with its ability to reduce friction,
In addition, for micro-and nanoscale devices, commercial oils may be too sticky to allow for their efficient operation.
"To repel synthetic materials like oils, we need to bring in another level of chemistry that nature doesn't have access to
The scientists coat gold nanoparticles of a few thousand atoms each with an oil-like organic molecule that holds the gold particles together.
At present, biodiesel is produced by combining fats and oils with methanol, which is derived usually from fossil fuels.
used in everything from fire extinguishers to oil recovery to carbonated beverages, but it is also a major greenhouse gas.
including water, oil, highly corrosive media, biological fluids containing bacteria and blood. Not only did the material repel all the liquid
just like checking oil levels in a car. The dipstick is already available and can save lives,
#ipstickin the brain could predict damage just in time TO CHECK a car oil levels, use a dipstick.
but the design is written broadly enough that it can potentially protect everything from ships to submarines, offshore platforms, ground vehicles, buildings,
Morocco environment minister, Hakima el-Haite, believes that solar energy could have the same impact on the region this century that oil production had in the last.
she said. e are not an oil producer. We import 94%of our energy as fossil fuels from abroad
The HTF is made up of a synthetic thermal oil solution that is pumped towards a heat tank containing molten sands that can store heat energy for three hours
useful in applications ranging from medical imaging of soft tissue to oil prospecting. The most sensitive commercial magnetic sensors require a single SQUID kept at 4. 2 Kn incredibly chilly temperature that is usually maintained with expensive and difficult to handle liquid helium.
Improving onboard natural-gas storage Natural gas from oil wells is one of the cheapest and cleanest fossil fuels today,
including billionaires Bill gates and oil sands financier Murray Edwards, Carbon Engineering is not the only company in the world intent on solving our carbon dioxide problems,
and oil industry in that we can produce chemicals and fuels in a totally renewable way, rather than extracting them from deep below the ground."
farming and even oil and gas exploration are highly vulnerable to wear and tear, Erdemir said. His new technology could help preserve all this equipment."
oil and gas pipelines and nuclear plants has been developed by researchers at the University of Strathclyde with inspiration from the natural world.
If there are defects in a nuclear plant or an oil pipeline, we would be able to detect cracks that have a range of sizes
At present, biodiesel is produced by combining fats and oils with methanol, which is derived usually from fossil fuels.
and resistant to oil, gasoline and glycol in the cooling water. It must also demonstrate good adherence to the metal inserts
and oil industry in that we can produce chemicals and fuels in a totally renewable way, rather than extracting them from deep below the ground.
The scientists coat gold nanoparticles of a few thousand atoms each with an oil-like organic molecule that holds the gold particles together.
which are made often from petrochemicals, cellulose is derived from wood, a renewable resource supporting the mission of the College of Natural resources
or oil flow in pipelines. Climate change/Environmental sciences: Modeling atmospheric aerosols, identified as influencing the chemical composition
say, clean up oil spills or even make cheese. During a January phone conference with reporters Church declared that e are aiming at modifying plant and animal cells,
Schultz thinks there will be medical uses of synthetic organisms long before they are released into the environment to eat oil
including water, oil, and biological fluids containing bacteria and blood. According to the researchers, all liquids were repelled,
By contrast all of the planet's gas and oil deposits are thought to total about 200-300 gigatons of carbon.
and oil production also wields control of cellular growth--and tumor growth--in humans. Christoph Benning MSU professor of biochemistry and molecular biology and his colleagues unearthed the protein's potential
versus producing oil. When algae are awake they grow; when they're asleep they produce oil.
Producing oil is part of the cells'survival strategy when it's under stress said Chia-Hong Tsai doctoral candidate with MSU's Department of energy Plant Research Laboratory
and Department of Plant Biology and co-author. They go into quiescence to conserve energy and nutrients.
and produce oil simultaneously. The secret for making this happen was CHT7--the gatekeeper that cues cells to wake up
and gives scientists a way to potentially produce high amounts of oil and biomass. In terms of human medicine this discovery gives scientists a promising new model to study tumor suppression and growth.
biocompatible fluid based on medicinal white oil is used in place of the wire cable. To control the attached instruments and orient the tip of the endoscope,
In addition, they asked the participants what kind of frying fat/oils they usually used at home, with the possible responses as follows:
Frying deteriorates oils through the processes of oxidation and hydrogenation, leading to an increase in the absorption of oil degradation products by the foods being fried,
and also a loss of unsaturated fatty acids such as linoleic and linolenic acids and an increase in the corresponding trans fatty acids such as trans-linoleic acids and trans-linolenic acids."
"Deterioration of oils during frying is more profound when the oils are reused, a practice more common away from home than at home.
This may partly explain why we observed a stronger association of GDM risk with fried foods consumed away from home than fried foods consumed at home."
and sandwiched a layer of oil in between. Then they carefully injected into the mix individual water droplets that had been infused with tiny magnetic nanoparticles.
In that case, both the plastic and the oil-based sauce are hydrophobic and interact together.
000 oil and shale gas wells between January 2011 and May 2013.##GE said it will work with Statoil to evaluate
a renewable fermentation process that seeks to act as a partial replacement for the an oil-based processes that goes into making synthetic rubber.
a technology that replaces the oil-based feedstock for part of the synthetic rubber-making process with renewable biomass.
The fact that a firm that produces mobile devices is now more valuable than an oil company is the most powerful repudiation of the sprawling, exurban, oil-dependent old economy
oil, long commutes--to a new one built on a desire to capitalize on virtual connectivity by recapitulating it in the real world.
Give us gas and oil's $12b, and we'll cool planet Siemens: 880m euros'worth of wind power orders since July Google invests $75 million in U s. wind far r
the sun. Saudi arabia has a lot of oil. But an increasing amount of that crude is staying in the country where it's used run to desalination and power plants.
Millions of barrels of oil are used every day to power those desal plants. As a result
The country's solar strategy aims to save 523,000 barrels of oil equivalent a day,
The cost of new oil supply Saudi arabia taps China for nuclea a
#Why share and share alike makes a great business model SAN FRANCISCO-The quintessential example of how sharing an asset can be at the center of a business is probably the Zipcar car sharing organization,
Much depends on whether oil and gas prices stay highthis is where discussions of eak oilbecome relevant and on how quickly the U s. economy rebounds.
You have this polymer that s made from carcinogenic compounds like benzene and it will last up to 10,000 years.
and approximate the emissions of the much-maligned oil mined from tar sands. The numbers were intended for release in the spring when the EU presents new proposals on biofuels,
The EU's default value for measuring carbon efficiency for oil from tar sands is 107g CO2 equivalent per megajoule of fuel (CO2/mj.
The first customers will probably be oil gas and mining companies that use large generators to produce power in remote areas.
The particles they want to assemble are tiny droplets of fluorinated oil placed in water. These droplets are 50 micrometres in diameter
#How to Clean the Gas and Oil industries Most Contaminated water In a nondescript site in Midland, Texas, an inexpensive new process is cleaning up some of the most contaminated water aroundhe extremely salty stuff that comes up with oil at wells. By the end
or fracking, for oil and natural gas production (see atural Gas Changes the Energy Map. The technology may provide a way to deal with the increasing amounts of contaminated water the fossil fuel industry is generating as it pursues more and more difficult-to-reach deposits.
Many oil formations can produce as much as five barrels of contaminated water for every one barrel of oil.
And the volume of this so-called roducedwater is rising as the industry pumps water into nearly depleted wells to enhance oil recovery.
The water is pretreated to remove oil and grease residue and solid particles. The company heats the saline water
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