Yearly Archives: 2016

‘Research & Scholarship’

UC Riverside Jun 07 10:30 am 

UC Riverside Historian Megan Asaka has been awarded a Dumbarton Oaks Mellon Fellowship in Urban Landscape Studies by Harvard University to study the historical presence of migrant workers in the physical landscape of early Seattle.

‘Nano One Completes Engineering Study And Launches Pilot’

GlobeNewswire via Yahoo!7 Finance Jun 07 12:17 am 

VANCOUVER British Columbia June 07 2016-- Dan Blondal CEO of Nano One Materials Corp. today provided an update on the progress of its lithium battery materials pilot plant.. We are pleased to report ...

‘Russia Working On High-altitude Drone’

Space War Jun 07 12:28 am 

Moscow Sputnik Jun 07 2016 Unmanned aircraft acting as hovering antennas could be used to provide mobile communications in major cities and eventually take on some of the functions of space satellites. Scientists from the Samara National Research University have started developing a multirole atmospheric pseudo-satellite that would hover 20 kilometers above the ground and be used to ...

‘ORD: Jet Noise Will Ease Due To New Engine Designs’

Aircraft Maintenance Technology Jun 07 05:56 am 

June 06--Discussion of the noise problem around O39Hare International Airport has mostly centered not on the aircraft itself but on scheduling flight paths runway direction and sound insulation for homes and businesses.

‘Jet Noise Will Ease In Coming Years Due To New Engine Designs’

SouthtownStar Jun 05 06:28 pm 

An airplane flies over homes along Ruby Street in Schiller Park near O39Hare International Airport on Thursday July 30 2015. An airplane flies over homes along Ruby Street in Schiller Park near O39Hare International Airport on Thursday July 30 2015.

‘Graphene-based Transparent Electrodes For Highly Efficient Flexible OLEDS’

EurekAlert! Jun 03 07:23 am 

The Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology KAIST A Korean research team led by Professor Seunghyup Yoo from the School of Electrical Engineering KAIST and Professor Tae-Woo Lee from the Department of Materials Science and Engineering Pohang University of Science and Technology POSTECH has developed highly flexible OLEDs with excellent efficiency by using graphene as a ...

‘Growth Opportunities In Global Composites Industry 2016-2021, May 2016’

PR Newswire Jun 02 04:08 pm 

NEW YORK June 2 2016 PRNewswire -- Background The global composites market is anticipated to witness good growth with a CAGR of 3.5 over the next five years. The major drivers of growth for this market are double-digit growth in wind energy and strong growth in aerospace market....

‘IPhone 7 Plus Release Date & New Features Rumours: Apple To Drop 16GB Model | Lightning Port To 3.5mm Headphone Jack …’

Macworld UK Jun 03 03:36 am 

Looking for iPhone 7 Plus rumours Here39s what to expect from Apple39s big-screen iPhone 7 Plus in 2016 including iPhone 7 Plus release date rumours specs new features design changes and all the leaked photos and concept videos we39ve unearthed. Plus rumours say the iPhone 7 Plus will have a dual-lens camera and no headphone port - and may even be called 39iPhone Pro39

‘All Aboard The (Air)bus’

the Engineer Jun 03 03:38 am 

Stuart Nathan Features editor Airbustrades innovation event was geared around new materials and methods for aircraft manufacture and meeting the increasing demand for flying Ittrades entirely a coincidence but as my colleague Andrew wrote about his week in aerospace last Friday my week has also been dominated by this sector. However my experience was somewhat

‘Liquid By-products From Wood And Forest Industry Find Use In Wood-plastic Composites’

EurekAlert! Jun 03 06:23 am 

University of Eastern Finland A novel method for adding liquid by-products from the wood industry into wood-plastic composites WPCs prior to manufacturing was developed in a new study from the University of Eastern Finland. The study also discovered that proton-transfer-reaction mass-spectrometry PTR-MS is a suitable method for measuring the amounts of volatile organic compounds VOCs ...