The problem of petroleum depletion becomes more and pertinent every day. As deficits arise, non-traditional and heavy oils, including bitumen and shales, emerge as the focus of extensive research. Globally, they account for ...
Materials Science
Oct 3, 2019
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Heat treatment has proved to be an effective method of improving some of the useful properties of wood. Recent technological developments have achieved increased hydrophobic properties, better elasticity, and improved dimensional ...
Materials Science
May 26, 2016
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Copper salts have found place in many industries from pharmaceuticals to agriculture, but they are rarely seen in petrochemistry and petroleum extraction. Now, Kazan Federal University scientists have showed that copper stearate ...
Materials Science
Jul 27, 2018
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Fullerenes were first discovered by Harry Kroto in the 1970s, for which he and his colleagues received a Nobel Prize in Chemistry. Recently, fullerenes have been detected in the stellar winds of red giants and in the interstellar ...
Astronomy
Jan 30, 2018
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Carbon nanotubes (CNT) are a family of 1D nanostructures with numerous verified applications, made possible due to their excellent mechanical, optical and conductive properties. However, application of CNTs is hampered by ...
Nanomaterials
Apr 19, 2021
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Big Data has become ubiquitous in recent years, and especially so in disciplines with heterogeneous and complex data patterns. This is particularly true for chemistry. In some ways, chemical compounds may be compared with ...
Analytical Chemistry
May 14, 2019
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Famous for its deserts, arid central Asia (ACA) is one of the driest regions in the mid-latitudes and one of the main potential dust sources for the northern hemisphere. The mobilization, transportation, and deposition of ...
Earth Sciences
Mar 31, 2016
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Steam-assisted oil extraction methods for heavy deposits have long been the focus of attention at Kazan Federal University. In particular, much attention is paid to in-situ combustion catalysts.
Analytical Chemistry
Oct 13, 2020
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Researchers of the KFU Omics Lab have succeeded in deciphering a Phi29-family virus genome. Junior researcher Raihan Shah Mahmud of Kazan Federal University says, "There is an immense number of viruses in nature, hundreds ...
Cell & Microbiology
Aug 25, 2017
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As the most popular type of wireless systems, cellular communications carry high demand for confidentiality of traffic data of mobile subscribers. Wireless key distribution is one of the most promising and fast-growing areas ...
Telecom
Nov 2, 2015
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