High-tech lab analyses revealed panguite's chemical composition and crystal structure, which Ma said is new, and as such, could be explored for novel engineering materials.
There are still many sectors where Japanese firms are world leaders, based primarily on superior engineering, materials, manufacturing and quality management.
Nanotechnology is a fast emerging science that concerns itself with the engineering of materials at the scale of individual atoms and molecules.
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The pressures are too great, and no engineering or materials conceivable today would allow us to build livable-sized spaces on the deep sea floor.
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They shared their aspirations with me, and I was excited to hear about specific fields they were interested in like materials engineering and environmental design.
Take the reauthorization of the 2005 law on highway and transit spending, which stirred up interest in publicly held heavy equipment, engineering and construction materials companies.
The technologies that have unlocked this abundance are the familiar fruits of our era: better materials engineering, sensors, controls, and information-related systems that radically improve all operations.
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Flemings SMA Professor of Materials Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Visiting Professor of Management in the Johnson School at Cornell University and Fellow in the Singapore-MIT Alliance.
The trick is to replace graphite with tin for the anode, which is one of the two main components in a battery cell, said Grant Norton, who headed the research and is a professor of mechanical and materials engineering at the university.
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The Center for Computational Materials Science and Engineering Data is an effort by ASM International to define protocols collecting, disseminating, and managing materials data.
With this in mind, the clean energy conversation should center on practical improvements to materials and engineering.
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In 1989 Dow's materials-engineering center beat out GE for the chance to build, using plastics, a riding lawn mower for John Deere.
In 1989 Dow's materials-engineering center beat out General Electric for the chance to build, using plastics, a riding lawn mower for John Deere.
Dow's materials-engineering center is busy brainstorming ways that plastic can be used to replace wood and steel in durable goods, particularly home appliances and auto parts.
Ankit Kumar, a materials science and engineering graduate student at UCLA Engineering was the paper's second author.
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Improving fuel economy is possible with lighter materials and better engineering.
The wizardry in this engine is that Bentley managed to lighten up the Co2 emissions load by 15% in its engineering and physics (lighter materials and increased air flow).
The team of Professor Keon Jae Lee from the Department of Materials Science and Engineering, KAIST has developed a high performance flexible all-solid-state battery, an essential energy source for flexible displays (see paper in Nano Letters: "Bendable Inorganic Thin-Film Battery for Fully Flexible Electronic Systems").
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"These results open the potential for visibly transparent polymer solar cells as add-on components of portable electronics, smart windows and building-integrated photovoltaics and in other applications, " said study leader Yang Yang, a UCLA professor of materials science and engineering, who also is director of the Nano Renewable Energy Center at California NanoSystems Institute (CNSI).
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Subsequently, additional employees were arrested for accepting illegal payments from materials suppliers and an engineering firm.
"I believe this is a game-changer invention to improve the efficiency of LCD displays, " said Yang Yang, a professor of materials science at UCLA Engineering and principal investigator on the research.
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Drawing on more than 150 years of materials science and process engineering knowledge, Corning creates and makes keystone components that enable high-technology systems for consumer electronics, mobile emissions control, telecommunications and life sciences.
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Kahn admitted that ancient Roman vaults and arches were his inspiration, and by combining them with advanced engineering and a simple palette of materials concrete, travertine and white oak he created a place that is of the present but also invokes an ancient past.
He led the Brotherhood's parliamentary bloc from 2000 to 2005 in addition to serving as president of the Department of Materials Science, Faculty of Engineering at Zagazig University.
Indeed, for big, high-value choices, that seems obvious: when Starbucks introduced its instant coffee, or when Applied Materials moved its manufacturing and engineering base to Asia, those decisions involved sizable amounts of resources and significant risk.
"Combining the world class-technology and materials expertise of Nanosys with the engineering, design and supply chain capabilities of 3M will unlock a powerful new color viewing experience for consumers, " said Jim Bauman, Vice President of the Optical Systems Division at 3M.
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To do this, the engineering team has had to use new technologies and materials.
D. in mechanical engineering, Raade was working at a Silicon Valley materials science company called Symyx in 2009.
In the mid-20th century, elite car builders reached the effective limit of the materials (steel and aluminum) and engineering (body-on-frame) available.
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When changes are made the algorithms make engineering adjustments, calculate the cost and send a bill of materials to the factory floor.
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