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FEBRUARY 9, 2016
Engineers at Iowa State University have developed a hybrid process that combines bio- and electrocatalysis to convert glucose into bio-based unsaturated nylon-6,6—which has the advantage of an extra double bond in its backbone that can be used to tailor the polymer’s properties. Their study is published in the 12 Feb. Resources. Carraher, N.
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AUGUST 24, 2015
Alcoa recently completed the acquisition of RTI International Metals, Inc., Projections for 2016 and 2017 sales growth have nearly doubled to 8 and 13%, from 4 to 5% and 6%, respectively, showing the ongoing strength of the sector. The merger was announced 9 March. Alcoa expects global aerospace sales growth of 8 to 9% in 2015.
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FEBRUARY 18, 2018
Years of government support for corn farmers—paying Chinese corn producers more than twice the international price level until 2016—have left China with a substantial stockpile. From 2004 to 2016, the average annual production growth rate was 16.8%, according to CARD. Source: USDA FAS. Click to enlarge.
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APRIL 11, 2023
From synchronous machines to fast response power electronics That article was an update of a 2004 article that Vittal coauthored as a member of a joint task force formed by the IEEE Power & Energy Society and CIGRE , an international association of power system professionals, headquartered in Paris.
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SEPTEMBER 23, 2016
Wendell Miller Professor of Energy Science at Iowa State University’s department of Materials Science and Engineering. Pecharsky (2016) “Towards Direct Synthesis of Alane: A Predicted Defect-Mediated Pathway Confirmed Experimentally” ChemSusChem 9, 2358 doi: 10.1002/cssc.201600338. Resources. Herwadkar, J. Johnson, S. Peña-Martin, A.
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APRIL 24, 2023
Brunasso has presented papers at the IEEE International Microwave Symposium , the IEEE Radar Conference , and the IEEE Ultra-Wideband Conference. She is a founding member of the IEEE Cedar Rapids (Iowa) Section’s Women In Engineering Affinity Group. She is a member of Sigma Pi Sigma, the National Physics Honor Society and HKN.
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NOVEMBER 15, 2023
I call it the perversity of nature,” jokes Matthew Kramer , Distinguished Scientist at Ames National Laboratory , in Iowa. In our field, the major gathering is called the International Workshop on Rare-Earth and Future Permanent Magnets. [At Any permanent magnet must have a ferromagnetic element, such as iron or cobalt.
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