Sentences with phrase «key chemicals for»

Silane (a key chemical for solar cells) explosions have killed 10 over the last 20 years, according to Scientific American, and others have noted that solar manufacturers pollute streams and natural waterways in China.

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Australia Minerals and Mining Group has chosen its Meckering aluminous clay deposit as the key supply of feedstock material for its HPA chemicals project, which will be located north of Perth.

Therefore the military would have to target «not only nuclear infrastructure but command and control facilities, key leaders, artillery and missile units, chemical and biological weapons facilities, airfields, ports, and other targets deemed critical to regime survival,» according to the report for Congress.

• Littlejohn & Co agreed to acquire Cornerstone Chemical Company, a Waggaman, La. - based manufacturer of key intermediate chemicals for high - value industrial and consumer applications, from an affiliate of H.I.G. Capital.

At Berringa, we look for the key naturally occurring chemical markers that are found in Manuka Honey (MGO and DHA) to determine its purity.

The key is to look for certifications from organizations like the Eco-Institut, CertiPUR - US, and OEKO - TEX Standard 100 when looking for health factors like harmful emissions or chemicals.

For instance, if he could bottle the chemicals key to the smell, they could be used to help train the mouth muscles of babies who are too premature or ill to feed naturally.

Energy security, innovation and re-building UK supply chains are some of the key challenges set out in a new strategy for the chemical sector.

Conferences are also one of the standard ways of getting your work out to its target audience — and that's key to the kind of visibility and recognition that scientists need for their careers to grow, says Donna Dean, a retired senior adviser for the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) who now works as an executive consultant for the Association for Women in Science (AWIS) and a career consultant for the American Chemical Society (ACS).

White phosphorus, generated in the legacy thermal process for phosphate rock upgrading, has long been the key industrial intermediate for the synthesis of phosphorus - containing chemicals, including herbicides, flame - retardants, catalyst ligands, battery electrolytes, pharmaceuticals, and detergents.

Selective hydrogenation is the key to producing valuable chemicals, for example, turning triple - bonded hydrocarbons called alkynes selectively into double - bonded alkenes — starting materials for the synthesis of plastics, fuels and other commercial products.

The Institute plays a key role as the lead military medical research laboratory for the Defense Threat Reduction Agency's Joint Science and Technology Office for Chemical and Biological Defense.

GABA has been known for decades to be a key neurotransmitter in the brain, a chemical that nerve cells use to communicate with each other, but its role in the pancreas was unknown until the 2011 paper by Drs. Prud «homme and Wang.

The second gene, TNFRSF6B, encodes a receptor related to those that bind tumor necrosis factor (TNF)-- a key chemical signal for triggering inflammation in IBD as well as in patients with other autoimmune disorders such as rheumatoid arthritis and psoriasis.

Molecular movies reveal how chemical bonds form and break; ultrafast snapshots capture electric charges as they rapidly rearrange in materials and change their properties; and sharp 3 - D images of disease - related proteins provide atomic - level details that could hold the key for discovering potential cures.

That's why the chemical is a key ingredient in pepper spray and a growing number of other concoctions for warding off belligerent backwood bears and backyard rodent pests.

On 16 April, the EPA will release its preliminary risk assessment for atrazine at a technical briefing, a key step in its long process of reviewing the chemical's effects on humans, wildlife, and the environment.

«Part of my job is to collate information on the techniques used to manufacture illicit drugs and to investigate the availability of a number of key chemicals which are essential for their production.

That would make these regions (pictured right) potential hotspots for alien life because they would have held chemical - rich water — a key ingredient for life.

Very few of these will be useful because enzymes have to be an exact fit for the chemical they react with, just as a lock can only be opened by a specific key.

In a discovery that holds promise for future drug development, scientists have detected for the first time how nature performs an impressive trick to produce key chemicals similar to those in drugs that fight malaria, bacterial infections and cancer.

Zhenan Bao, a chemical engineer developing similar wearable health sensors at Stanford University in California, says that some key components such as batteries and processors do not yet have a flexible form suitable for skin patches.

Ironically, cyanides are incredibly toxic to life once it's established, but they could be key ingredients in the chemical precursors for life.

The findings: carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, nitrogen, sulfur and phosphorous — key ingredients for life — plus chemicals such as sulfur dioxide and hydrogen sulfide that could provide energy for microorganisms.

The professional development sessions aimed at providing recipients with key information for advancing their careers and implementing successful research projects in the chemical sciences.

Bell and Boehnke, who have pioneered chemical and mineralogical tests to determine the condition of ancient zircons, were searching for carbon, the key component for life.

The team is led by Wageningen and the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, with support from key stakeholders including Rothamsted Research, for its expertise in data analysis and the chemical ecology of insects.

New research from a team led by Wolf Frommer, director of the Plant Biology Department, Carnegie Institution for Science in Stanford, in collaboration with the Carter lab in Minnesota and the Baldwin lab at the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology in Jena, Germany, now identified key components of the sugar synthesis and secretion mechanisms.

Scientists from the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology in Jena (Germany) and their colleagues from Stanford and Duluth (USA) have identified the sugar transporter that plays a key role in plants» nectar production.

The researchers looked in rats» brains for the genetic instructions needed to make a key «pleasure receptor,» called D2, that allows brain cells to receive signals sent by the brain chemical dopamine — or cocaine.

Nakamura claims to have gotten just $ 190 for relinquishing a key patent covering a new chemical vapor deposition method used in producing both the blue LEDs and blue lasers.

Alterations in the genetic coding for a nerve cell receptor, which detects a chemical signal that is key to behavioral change, could point the way to designing therapies most effective for patients suffering from schizophrenia, drug addiction and other mental illnesses.

To narrow down the number of chemical compounds that could be potential drug candidates, scientists utilize computer models that can predict how a particular chemical compound might interact with a biological target of interest — for example, a key protein that might be involved with a disease process.

Nitrogen - doped carbon nanotubes or modified graphene nanoribbons may be suitable replacements for platinum for fast oxygen reduction, the key reaction in fuel cells that transform chemical energy into electricity, according to Rice University researchers.

In an essay last year in Chemical & Engineering News he argued for restricting the purchase of key chemicals.

In recent years, scientists have tried to turn fast - growing bacteria into chemical factories by transplanting the key genes responsible for the exotic chemistry.

After decades of eluding researchers because of chemical instability, key metal - oxide clusters have been isolated in water, a significant advance for growing the clusters with the impeccable control over atoms that's required to manufacture small features in electronic circuits.

It is highly improbable that the threat can be reduced by bombing the stockpiles (see «Wind and rockets key clues in Syrian chemical puzzle» and «Iraq offers grim lessons for Syrian gas survivors «-RRB-.

This powerful capability is key for astronomers because a highly - detailed spectral image allows them to identify a cosmic object's characteristics, including its temperature, motion, density, mass, distance, chemical composition, and more.

It focuses on 4 criteria: «i) the scientific premise of the proposed research, ii) rigorous experimental design for robust and unbiased results, iii) consideration of relevant biological variable and iv) authentication of key biological and / or chemical resources».

Selective hydrogenation is the key to producing valuable chemicals, for example, turning triple - bonded hydrocarbons called alkynes selectively into double - bonded alkenes — starting materials for the synthesis of plastics, fuels and other...

Argonne Chemical Sciences and Engineering Division Director Emilio Bunel was honored for his «efforts leading, collaborating, and initiating key programs and research.»

Even codons for different amino acids that have two of their three letters in common tend to translate into amino acids that share key chemical properties.

Renewable fuels and chemicals company Virent has established a strategic consortium with Tesoro, Toray, Johnson Matthey and The Coca - Cola Company focused on completing the development and scale up of Virent's BioForming technology to produce low carbon bio-based fuels and bio-paraxylene (a key raw material for the production of 100 % bio-polyester)....

It will focus on catalyst development for four applications: proton exchange membrane fuel cells to convert stored energy in non-fossil fuels into electricity; electrolysers for splitting water into oxygen and hydrogen — a potential clean fuel cell source; syngas, a mixture of CO and H2, which is generated from coal, gas and biomass, and widely used as a key intermediate in the chemical industry; and lithium - air batteries.

Defects and jagged surfaces at the edges of nanosized platinum and gold particles are key hot spots for chemical reactivity, a team of researchers working at the Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in Israel confirmed with a unique infrared probe.

The Council for Chemical Research exists to promote networking and partnerships among key leaders from Academia, Government and Industry to:

Today, mass spectrometry imaging can be used to unlock this chemical information and will be a key component for earlier and better detection of cancer.

Our vision for sustainable chemical sciences instruction includes: Green chemistry instruction in our undergraduate lab courses; making sustainability and green chemistry a key part of graduate training; offering executive education programs in sustainable chemical practice to retrain the installed base of chemists and chemical engineers.

Yet, the full star formation and enrichment history of a galaxy can be traced directly only if two key observables can be determined... ▽ More Red giant stars are perhaps the most important type of stars for Galactic and extra-galactic archaeology: they are luminous, occur in all stellar populations, and their surface temperatures allow precise abundance determinations for many different chemical elements.