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harder than steel: it bends but does not break

The findings of researchers from Berkeley and the California Institute of Technology

Researchers at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory U.S. Department of Energy and the California Institute of Technology have developed a new type of glass consists of a metallic palladium microalloying with phosphorus, silicon, germanium and silver which has shown resistance to impacts more than any other known material.

bends but does not break - The secret to success lies in making this cocktail glass, plastic and thus able to react to stress bending without breaking. In fact, the glass is particularly prone to chip, while in metals the crystalline structure prevents the propagation of cracks. According to Robert Ritchie, a researcher who led the project, with future developments in the metallic glass, and already know of new enhancements to the addition of silver microalloying has significantly increased performance and has enabled to make sheets of glass with a thickness greater. The five elements are all essential, therefore, as pointed out by Ritchie, but especially the palladium to give the new glass that he lacked the strength, thanks to a high ratio of stiffness that counteracts and compensates for the extreme fragility of glass materials. In addition, the palladium (silver-like substance, which sometimes replaces it as a trace element contents in minerals such as chalcopyrite) in the cold working increases the resistance and hardness.

POSSIBLE APPLICATIONS - For now, the new composition is still being tested, but it is likely that in future will also be used for consumer electronics. Tough, durable and very tolerant to damage: the new glass at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory could soon retire the Gorilla Glass, the screen resistant to impact and scratch recently adopted by Apple.

SOURCE: Emanuela Di Pasqua (corriere.it)

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concluded the holidays' season, the Italians set aside trotters, sausages, panettone, dried fruit and drink alcohol but meet two to three pounds heavier 'on the scale. If a dish of stuffed pasta can 'get well to contain 900 calories, a few slices of cold cuts 240 calories, 450 calories sausage, the apex the is reached with the traditional Christmas desserts: a slice of cake makes about 360 calories, while one of pandoro contains 414 and, for the most 'delicious, every pound of dried fruit that crunches is equivalent to 700 calories. Christmas binge eating toast washed down with alcohol system, and flow of wine, sparkling wine to celebrate the new year and ammazzacaffe 'easy access to the 400 calories. At the end holidays 'the Italians have taken about 15 thousand calories that lead them to begin 2011 with two or three extra pounds' on the scale. But to dispose of excess calories will not be 'more' must resort to strict dieting and fasting forced earlier this year: to retrieve the form and recover from the binge will be enough 'and turn on the TV choose from a number of personalized training, thanks to an innovative interactive software last generation able to bring home the best personal trainer in the world. It is "Your Shape: Fitness Evolved," the first software-glaze cake emblem of the new trend coming from the United States: Gymnhouse, derived from the words "gymnasium" (gym) and "house" (house) by which the gym becomes virtual and land in your living room. And so ', for example, to dispose of a piece of cake, of around 360 calories, 30 minutes will be sufficient to cardio-boxing, while relieving them of a slice of Pandora (about 414 calories) will be enough' an hour of exercise sweet. All free body without the use with any device, conveniently in your living room, with a personal trainer who, by voice and gesture, and 'able to reward or blame in case of error, in real time during the year.

SOURCE: agi.it

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the barrel to the container: the new frontiers of biofuel

is better than the Brazilian sugar cane. Recovery of marginal land not used for agriculture

The simple common reed, Arundo donax is its botanical name, one that grows along roadsides or ditches, is the future of biofuels, especially ethanol, which can be added to gasoline. In Brazil, ethanol produced from sugar cane is now a reality for over 30 years, but how to translate well in our climate this opportunity offered to us by nature if the cane does not grow in Italy? Not an easy undertaking, requiring investment of € 120 million and five years of research is needed to find the best plan and develop the process of milling.

M & G - The money has been invested by the group M & G (Mossi and Ghisolfi ), a multinational company with headquarters in Italy, world's leading manufacturer of PET (plastic bottles), 3 000 employees and $ 3 billion of turnover. In 2004 with the acquisition of Chemtex the Italian group has given a change in its strategy, entering the chemical "green" biofuels. And Rivalta Scrivia, near Alessandria, using the possibilities offered by the Science & Technology Park and dall'onlus Energy, the district agricultural and energy Northwest , was born the laboratory where he was born the advanced second-generation bioethanol , that in fact derived from the common reed.

FIVE FEATURES - «Era necessario trovare una pianta che unisse cinque caratteristiche», spiega l’ingegnere Giuseppe Fano, direttore M&G del centro di ricerca di Rivalta Scrivia. «Non fosse alimentare - per uomini o animali - per motivi etici; avesse scarso bisogno di acqua e di concimi; fosse disponibile tutto l’anno; crescesse su terreni marginali poveri e non utilizzati dalle coltivazioni intensive; e fosse autoctona, ampiamente diffusa, disponibile e con un’alta resa. Dopo cinque anni di ricerche e sperimentazioni, l’abbiamo trovata», prosegue Fano. «È la canna comune, che ha tutte le caratteristiche necessarie e inoltre fornisce 40 tonnellate per ettaro di sostanza secca equivalente e, una volta lavorata, delivers 10 tons of bioethanol per hectare, even more than what is obtained from sugar cane in Brazil. "

FIVE FEATURES - "We needed a plan that would combine five characteristics," says the engineer Giuseppe Fano, director of M & G research center Rivalta Scrivia. "There was food - for humans or animals - for ethical reasons, had little need for water and fertilizer, was available throughout the year, grew up poor and marginal lands not used by intensive cultivation, and it was indigenous, widely available and high yield. After five years of research and experimentation, we trovata», prosegue Fano. «È la canna comune, che ha tutte le caratteristiche necessarie e inoltre fornisce 40 tonnellate per ettaro di sostanza secca equivalente e, una volta lavorata, consente di ottenere 10 tonnellate per ettaro di bioetanolo, addirittura di più di quanto si ricava dalla canna da zucchero in Brasile».

FONTE: Paolo Virtuani (corriere.it)