Latest Oxide Stories

Study offers new explanation of conduction at interface of oxide materials To improve the electronic devices that keep our modern, hyper-connected world organized, scientists are on the hunt for new semiconductor materials, which control the flow of electricity that powers smart phones and other electronic devices. One answer could lie with an unusual form of electrical conductivity that takes place at the junction of two oxides, materials made of oxygen and metal. When an oxide made up...

OKLAHOMA CITY, Nov. 8, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Tronox Incorporated (TROX.PK) (Tronox) announced today that it will release its third quarter 2011 earnings on Tuesday, November 15, 2011, at 8 a.m. EST followed by an 11 a.m. EST conference call to discuss its financial and operating results. Conference Call Interested parties may listen to Tronox's third quarter 2011 conference call via Tronox's website at www.tronox.com or by calling 1-877-741-4253 in the United States or 719-325-4804 outside...

OKLAHOMA CITY, Oct. 28, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Tronox Incorporated, on behalf of its subsidiary companies, today announced the following price increase for all TRONOX® titanium dioxide (TiO2) grades: Effective November 1, 2011 or as contracts allow: North America $0.15 per poundThese increases are in addition to those previously announced. Other increases may be announced locally within each region. Headquartered in Oklahoma City, Tronox is one of the five largest producers and marketers...

VANCOUVER, Oct. 19, 2011 /PRNewswire/ - Commerce Resources Corp. (TSXv: CCE, FSE: D7H, OTCQX: CMRZF) (the "Company" or "Commerce") is pleased to report the results for the first two drill holes completed during the summer/fall exploration program at the Ashram Rare Earth Element ("REE") Zone at the Eldor Project in northern Quebec. To date, 32 drill holes have been completed at Eldor as part of this year's ongoing exploration program. The initial two drill holes were successful...

OKLAHOMA CITY, Aug. 5, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Tronox Incorporated (TROX.PK) (Tronox) announced today that it will release its second quarter 2011 earnings on Thursday, August 18, 2011, at 8 a.m. EDT followed by an 11 a.m. EDT conference call to discuss its financial and operating results. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20051118/TRONOXLOGO-a) Conference Call/Webcast Information Interested parties may listen to the Tronox's second quarter 2011 conference call via Tronox's website...

OKLAHOMA CITY, June 28, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Tronox Incorporated, on behalf of its subsidiary companies, today announced the following price increase for all TRONOX® titanium dioxide (TiO2) grades effective July 1, 2011 or as contracts allow: North America $0.25 per poundThis increase is in addition to those previously announced. Other increases may be announced locally within each region. Headquartered in Oklahoma City, Tronox is one of the five largest producers and marketers of...

It has 8 hairy legs, spins webs, hunts prey and lives its entire life under the surface of the water. No, it is not the something from a bad horror film, the Argyroneta aquatica, or Diving Bell Spider is the subject of a fascinating study published in the Journal of Experimental Biology."It is an iconic animal; I had read about the spider as a small boy in popular literature about ponds," says Roger Seymour from the University of Adelaide. Each spider constructs a net of silk in vegetation...

NuageBeauty has launched a new website http://www.oxygenbotanicalsonline.com/pr03292011 in an effort to bring pharmaceutical grade Oxygen Botanicals skincare products to professionals and home consumers. Visit Oxygen Botanicals Online today to try free samples of Oxygen Botanicals skincare products and even request a free skin analysis from a licensed esthetician. Minneapolis, MN (PRWEB) March 30, 2011 NuageBeauty has launched a new website Oxygen Botanicals Online in an effort to bring...

Graphene oxide has had a scrum of researchers fall upon it as it retains much of the properties of the highly valued super material pure graphene, but it is much easier, and cheaper, to make in bulk quantities; easier to process; and its significant oxygen content appears to make it soluble in water. However new research led by University of Warwick Chemist Dr Jonathan P. Rourke and University of Warwick Physicist Dr Neil Wilson, has found that that last assumption is incorrect and...

By Pam Frost Gorder, Ohio State UniversityResearchers studying the origin of Earth's first breathable atmosphere have zeroed in on the major role played by some very unassuming creatures: plankton.In a paper to appear in the online Early Edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), Ohio State University researcher Matthew Saltzman and his colleagues show how plankton provided a critical link between the atmosphere and chemical isotopes stored in rocks 500 million...