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Rice U graphene composite may keep wings, blades and transmission lines ice-free; Joule heating

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For wings or blades in motion, the thin layer of water that forms first between the heated composite and the surface should be enough to loosen ice and allow it to fall off without having to melt completely, Tour said. They were able to heat the composite to more than 200 degrees Fahrenheit. Tour is the T.T. Abdul-Rahman O.

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Europe Expands Virtual Borders To Thwart Migrants

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Now, Frontex is refocusing its resources from shipboard patrols to aerial and remote sensing, according to its. For more than a decade, European courts have documented and declared illegal routine European state border agency actions that include navy vessels pushing migrant boats back into international waters and abandoning them there.

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New thermoplastic-graphene nanoribbon composite could offer lighter, more effective natural gas storage for vehicles

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In an open access paper in the journal ACS Nano , Tour and his colleagues at Rice and in Hungary, Slovenia and India reported that nitrogen gas effective diffusivity of the TPU was decreased by three orders of magnitude with only 0.5 The Air Force Research Laboratory through the University Technology Corp.,

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