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Feature: Why Singapore Car Washing Services Are Becoming Cheaper

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Feature: Why Singapore Car Washing Services Are Becoming Cheaper Look for These Issues To Drop Prices in Your Home Town Car Wash Next This article may contain affiliate links. Advancements in Technology Advancements in technology have also contributed to the decrease in car washing service prices in Singapore.

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Study finds the wettability of porous electrode surfaces is key to making efficient water-splitting or carbon-capturing systems

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As water-splitting technologies improve, often using porous electrode materials to provide greater surface areas for electrochemical reactions, their efficiency is often limited by the formation of bubbles that can block or clog the reactive surfaces. Article Ryuichi Iwata, Lenan Zhang, Kyle L. —Iwata et al. Gallant, Evelyn N.

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NUS-led research team develops cost-effective technique for mass production of high-quality graphene; 50x less solvent

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A research team led by the National University of Singapore (NUS) has developed an economical and industrially viable strategy to produce graphene. Preparation of ultra-high concentration graphene in water. b) New non-dispersion strategy for graphene production in water. g), high yield (82.5?wt%),

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New Catalytic Pathway for the Reduction of CO2 to CO Under Mild Conditions

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A team of researchers in Singapore have developed a process for the catalytic reduction of carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) to carbon monoxide (CO) under mild conditions, using aromatic aldehydes as reductants and N-Heterocyclic Carbenes (NHCs) as organocatalysts. Article ASAP doi: 10.1021/ja909038t.

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COVID Breathalyzers Could Transform Rapid Testing

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In May, Singapore provisionally approved a breath-based device from Breathonix and may use it to test travelers at a Singapore-Malaysia checkpoint, according to the company. This article appears in the October 2021 print issue as "Five COVID Breathalyzers.".

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MIT team outlines path to low-cost solar-to-fuels devices; the artificial leaf

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The new analysis follows up on 2011 research that produced a proof of concept of an artificial leaf—a small device that, when placed in a container of water and exposed to sunlight, would produce bubbles of hydrogen and oxygen. volts, is insufficient to power the water-splitting reaction, which needs more than 1.2 Earlier post.)

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Devil in the Details: World Leaders Scramble To Salvage and Shape Copenhagens UNFCCC Climate Summit

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“ One Agreement, Two Steps ” Expectations for Copenhagen quickly became complicated after Danish Prime Minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen boarded an overnight flight to Singapore to address an impromptu breakfast forum on climate change at the Asia Pacific Economic Co-operation (APEC) summit on 15 November.

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