The principal components of petroleum and natural gas are hydrocarbons and their mixtures, indispensable as resources supporting modern infrastructure as raw materials for the petrochemical industry. A technique conventionally ...
Materials Science
Aug 1, 2017
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South Korea's Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology has introduced new low cost, high efficiency hydrocarbon fuel cells.
Materials Science
Jul 18, 2017
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Summertime is barbecue time. However, when fat reacts with glowing coal, a substance chemists call benzopyrene is created. It is a widespread environmental toxin that can cause cancer in humans. Since buildings were heated ...
Materials Science
Jul 13, 2017
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Hydraulic fracturing has enabled a domestic oil and gas boom in the U.S., but its rapid growth has raised questions about what to do with the billions of gallons of wastewater that result. Researchers now report that treating ...
Environment
Jul 12, 2017
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The Greenland ice sheet is often seen as a pristine environment, but new research has revealed that may not be the case.
Earth Sciences
Jul 10, 2017
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Chemists have long sought to develop new reactions for the direct conversion of simple hydrocarbon building blocks into valuable materials such as pharmaceuticals in a way that dependably creates the same chemical bonds and ...
Materials Science
Jul 7, 2017
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Smog from cars and trucks is an expected health hazard in big cities, but researchers from the University of Cincinnati found pollution from truck exhaust on one of the most remote mountain roads in the world.
Environment
May 2, 2017
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As an alternative to liquid fossil fuels, biodiesel extracted from microalgae is an increasingly important part of the bioenergy field. While it releases a similar amount of CO2 as petroleum when burned, the CO2 released ...
Biotechnology
Apr 28, 2017
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Fuel such as petrol is made up of hydrocarbons—a family of molecules consisting entirely of carbon and hydrogen. Pigment and dye, coal and tar are made up of hydrocarbons too.
Materials Science
Apr 24, 2017
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The genome of the fuel-producing green microalga Botryococcus braunii has been sequenced by a team of researchers led by a group at Texas A&M AgriLife Research.
Biotechnology
Apr 24, 2017
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