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Axalta wins three prestigious 2021 Edison Awards™ Axaltas ALGRS, Spies Hecker® Permahyd® 5650 and Universal Titan all win News provided by Share this article Share this article PHILADELPHIA, April 23, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Axalta (NYSE: AXTA), a leading global supplier of liquid and powder coatings, is pleased to announce it won three bronze Edison Awards in the categories of Innovative Services, Sustainability and Engineering and Materials Science. Named after Thomas Edison, the Edison Awar...

Date Time To Design Truly Compostable Plastic, Scientists Take Cues From Nature Ivan Jayapurna, a UC Berkeley materials science and engineering graduate student, preparing a sample film of a new biodegradable plastic. (Credit: Adam Lau/UC Berkeley) Despite our efforts to sort and recycle, less than 9% of plastic gets recycled in the U.S., and most ends up in landfill or the environment. Biodegradable plastic bags and containers could help, but if they’re not properly sorted, they can contamin...

Unique X-Ray Instrument Reveals New Things About Lithium-Rich Battery Materials Written by AZoMApr 12 2021 An international research group working at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) of the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has gained a better understanding of lithium-rich battery materials with the help of a special X-ray instrument. Wanli Yang, a senior scientist at Berkeley Lab’s Advanced Light Source, working on a resonant inelastic X-ray scattering (RIXS) system. Ya...

 E-Mail IMAGE: Wanli Yang, a senior scientist in Berkeley Labs Advanced Light Source, working on a resonant inelastic X-ray scattering (RIXS) system. Yang adapted the RIXS technique for a recent Joule study... view more  Credit: Berkeley Lab An international team working at the U.S. Department of Energys Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) used a unique X-ray instrument to learn new things about lithium-rich battery materials that have been the subject of much study f...

DSM announces new Supervisory Board Chairman and proposes new Supervisory Board member News provided by HEERLEN, Netherlands, March 4, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Royal DSM, a global science-based company in Nutrition, Health and Sustainable Living,  announces that Mr. Rob Routs will retire as Chairman and member of the DSM Supervisory Board at the close of the Annual General Meeting of Shareholders to be held on 6 May 2021. The Supervisory Board has appointed Mr. Thomas Leysen to succeed him as Cha...

Murugesans research--destined for Energy Sciences Center--adds to PNNLs battery technology contributions DOE/Pacific Northwest National Laboratory Vijayakumar "Vijay" Murugesan stands next to the X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy imaging system, which is attached to a glovebox via an in situ sample transfer port. The instrument helps Murugesan and other researchers design battery parts then conduct tests in the imaging system. The setup will move to the new Energy Sciences Center later this yea...

Loading video... VIDEO: Imaging of the same spot shows that cracks eventually self-heal, an important trademark that maintains the integrity of structured liquids. Real-time video of 70 nm nanoparticles (red) and 500 nanometer... view more  Credit: Paul Ashby and Tom Russell/Berkeley Lab and Science Advances Liquid structures - liquid droplets that maintain a specific shape - are useful for a variety of applications, from food processing to cosmetics, medicine, and even petroleum extract...

Episode Of Metallurgical Pre-eminence For NITR: Inception Of IIM Student Chapter SHARE Indian Institute of Metal - Rourkela Student Chapter in collaboration with NIT Rourkela and Rourkela Steel Plant (RSP), SAIL.  Students of NIT Rourkela from any department with a keen interest in metallurgical and materials research can join the chapter apart from those already in the Department of Metallurgy and Materials Engineering. The induction process has already started, and students from Dept. of M...

The white collar work force, less than 5% now use computers mostly because of their complexity. macintosh is designed for simplicity, using a palm-sized unit called a mouse. >> it was the first time a machine was personal, it was simple, it was friendly. >> it took the computer out of the exclusive domain of geeks and nerds and people who had memorized those commands and put it on the desk of everybody, untrained non-technical people. >> stores around the country put them on sale today and analy...

Happen they have much more possibilities to sense what has happened to you know to take to find a solution to be intuitive sometimes so that challenges the crew on one side but they are very well prepared for it and i think all of these. excellent yes they were definitely very are resourceful is the mission now completed or do you think that theres a lot more are still to do. well certainly for the scientists it will take a couple of weeks to go over all the data. and his crew has collected in t...