News tagged with hybridization
Toyota unveils hybrid car push
The world's top automaker Toyota Motor plans to launch 11 new hybrid models by the end of 2012, the company said Thursday, as the race to build more environmentally friendly vehicles heats up.
Technology / Energy & Green Tech
Nov 18, 2010 |
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Hybrid plants with over-reactive immune system
(PhysOrg.com) -- Individuals from the same species can often be crossed without any trouble. However, genes also have their preferences, and some gene variants are not compatible with those found in other ...
Nov 17, 2010 |
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Potential hemlock hybrids tolerant to invasive hemlock woolly adelgid
New hemlock hybrids that are tolerant to the invasive insect known as hemlock woolly adelgid have been created by U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) scientists.
Nov 10, 2010 |
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UCLA uses new hybrid, precision heart procedures to help stop deadly arrhythmias
New techniques now being used at UCLA allow doctors to more precisely target certain areas of the heart to stop ventricular arrhythmias — serious abnormal rhythms in the heart's lower chambers — ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Nov 08, 2010 |
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Berkeley lab scientists generate low-cost, hybrid thermoelectrics
Although climate-controlled car seats don't spring to mind when you think of energy efficiency, the latest technology underpinning this luxury automobile feature is based on thermoelectrics—materials ...
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Nov 08, 2010 |
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China says its car boom is ruining air quality
China's booming car sales have had a devastating effect on the environment, the national environmental watchdog has warned in its first-ever report on pollution caused by vehicle emissions.
Nov 05, 2010 |
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Bismuth for bone cement: Water-soluble cluster key to the formation of hybrid material
(PhysOrg.com) -- Organic–inorganic hybrid materials, uniting the advantages of their organic and inorganic parts, are used for a wide variety of applications. However, making a homogeneous composite material ...
Oct 28, 2010 |
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US, Japan to diversify sources of rare earths: Japan FM
The United States and Japan will cooperate to diversify the sources of imports of rare earths needed in high-tech products, Japanese Foreign Minister Seiji Maehara said Wednesday.
Oct 28, 2010 |
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Japan's rare earth minerals may run out by March: govt
Japan's stockpile of rare earth minerals could dry up by March or April without fresh imports from China, which has stopped shipping them, a senior Japanese government official said Thursday.
Oct 21, 2010 |
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China denies cartel-like behaviour on rare earths
A senior Chinese trade official on Tuesday denied the country was dictating prices of rare earth metals to the world and insisted shipments of the minerals to Japan were never blocked.
Oct 19, 2010 |
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Premier: China won't block rare earth exports
(AP) -- China is not using its control over supplies of rare earth - exotic metals crucial in advanced manufacturing - as a diplomatic "bargaining chip," state media quoted Premier Wen Jiabao as saying during ...
Oct 08, 2010 |
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Study: U.S. challenging Asia in advanced batteries race
(PhysOrg.com) -- In the global race to develop and produce advanced lithium-ion batteries for these electric vehicles, the United States is well-positioned to be a worldwide leader.
Technology / Energy & Green Tech
Oct 05, 2010 |
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Nations wary of dependence on China's rare earths
(AP) -- China's recent halt of exotic metal shipments to Japan amid a diplomatic spat has reverberated throughout the world's high-tech manufacturing hubs - now on heightened alert to the risks of relying ...
Oct 04, 2010 |
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Japan develops vehicle motor free of rare earths
Japanese researchers said Thursday they had developed a hybrid vehicle motor that is free of rare earths, the minerals that are now almost exclusively produced by China.
Sep 30, 2010 |
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Japan: China rare-earth ban could hurt economy
(AP) -- China's ban on shipments to Japan of rare-earth metals that are crucial for advanced manufacturing threatens to undermine the Japanese economy, a top finance official said Tuesday amid a territorial row between the ...
Sep 28, 2010 |
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