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WEST CHESTER, Ohio, Aug. 6, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- AK Steel (NYSE: AKS) said today that it will increase current spot market base prices for all carbon flat-rolled steel products by $30 per ton, effective immediately with new orders. AK Steel AK Steel produces flat-rolled carbon, stainless and electrical steels, primarily for automotive, infrastructure and manufacturing, construction and electrical power generation and distribution markets. The company employs about 6,200 men and...
WASHINGTON, Aug. 2, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- On July 31, 2012, the U.S. Department of Commerce issued its final determination regarding circumvention of the antidumping duty order on Small Diameter Graphite Electrodes from China. This decision follows the preliminary determination issued on May 30, 2012. In the final determination, the Commerce Department upheld most of the findings that it had made in the preliminary determination and found that small diameter electrodes produced in...
Sandwiching individual graphene sheets between insulating layers in order to produce electrical devices with unique new properties, the method could open up a new dimension of physics research. Writing in Nature Materials, the scientists show that a new side-view imaging technique can be used to visualize the individual atomic layers of graphene within the devices they have built. They found that the structures were almost perfect even when more than 10 different layers were used to build...
Osaka, July 30, 2012 - (JCN Newswire) - Panasonic has developed an artificial photosynthesis system which converts carbon dioxide (CO2) to organic materials by illuminating with sunlight at a world's top efficiency* of 0.2%. The efficiency is on a comparable level with real plants used for biomass energy. The key to the system is the application of a nitride semiconductor which makes the system simple and efficient. This development will be a foundation for the realization of a system...
WEST CHESTER, Ohio, July 27, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- AK Steel (NYSE: AKS) said today that it will increase current spot market base prices for all carbon flat-rolled steel products by $40 per ton, effective immediately with new orders. AK SteelAK Steel produces flat-rolled carbon, stainless and electrical steels, primarily for automotive, infrastructure and manufacturing, construction and electrical power generation and distribution markets. The company employs about 6,200 men and...
GREENVILLE, SC, July 24, 2012 /PRNewswire/ - Scio Diamond Technology Corporation (OTC-BB: SCIOE.OB) announced today that it has signed a multi-year / multi-million dollar sales agreement with an international supplier of precision diamond cutting tool products. Scio will be providing, in mass quantities, CVD single crystal diamond in specified wafer sizes. Scio has also consummated several other sales agreements with customers in the research and development,...
redOrbit Staff & Wire Reports - Your Universe Online A group of porous carbon tubes that is three-dimensionally interwoven at nano and micro level is now thought to be the lightest material in the world. It weighs only 0.2 milligrams per cubic centimeter, and is therefore 75 times lighter than Styrofoam, but it is still very strong. Scientists of Kiel University (KU) and Hamburg University of Technology (TUHH) have named their joint creation "Aerographite". The scientific results...
AMSTERDAM, July 17, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Elsevier [http://www.elsevier.com ], a world-leading provider of scientific, technical and medical information products and services, today announced the highlights of its journal Impact Factor performance in 2011. According to the 2011 Journal Citation Reports(R) (JCR) published by Thomson Reuters, Elsevier saw 58% of its journal Impact Factors increase from 2010 to 2011, compared to 54% for non-Elsevier journals. Elsevier...
ST. LOUIS, July 16, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Today Akermin announces that it has signed an agreement with Southern Company Services to install and operate a pilot plant incorporating Akermin's novel biocatalyst delivery system at the National Carbon Capture Center. As part of a two-year project, partially funded through a grant from the US Department of Energy (Grant No. DE-FE0004228), Akermin is designing a pilot plant to demonstrate the performance of its biocatalyst delivery system...
GLEN ALLEN, Va., July 16, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Industry analyst firm NanoMarkets today announced that it has added a new report to its schedule titled, "OTFTs, OFETs and Organic Memory Markets- 2012" that is scheduled to release in early August 2012. Additional details about the report are available at the NanoMarkets website at http://nanomarkets.net/market_reports/report/otfts_ofets_and_organic_memory_markets_2012. The firm is offering pre-publication pricing for the report...
Latest Carbon Reference Libraries
Ocean acidification is the name that was given to the ongoing decrease in the pH of Earth’s oceans, a cause of the uptake of anthropogenic carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. About 30 to 40 percent of the carbon dioxide that is released by humans into the atmosphere dissolves into the lakes, oceans, and rivers. To maintain the chemical equilibrium, some of it reacts with the water to create carbonic acid. Some of these extra carbonic acid molecules react with a water molecule to provide a...
Graphite (named by Abraham Gottlob Werner in 1789, from the Greek γÏαφειν: "to draw/write", for its use in pencils) is one of the allotropes of carbon. Unlike diamond, graphite is a conductor, and can be used, for instance, as the material in the electrodes of an electrical arc lamp. Occurrence Associated minerals include: quartz, calcite, micas, iron meteorites and tourmalines. Notable occurrences include New York and Texas in the USA, Russia, Mexico, Greenland,...
