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Oct. 1, 2010, 12 p.m. - Chemical engineering challenges in the production of waterborne dispersed polymers (Jose Maria Asua)
Waterborne dispersed polymers are the green alternative to the traditional solvent-borne polymer production. With a worldwide annual production in excess of twenty million tonnes, waterborne polymers are used in a wide range of applications including coatings, adhesives, additives for paper and textiles, electronic devices, cosmetics, leather treatment, impact modifiers for ...
More Email announcementOct. 8, 2010, 12 p.m. - Global water shortages: Membrane nanotechnology for water resources development (Nidal Hilal)
The amount of currently available fresh water on earth is in continuous decline due to rapidly increased consumption as a result of population growth, industrial use and climate change. According to new findings, one in three people are enduring one form or another of water scarcity. Therefore there is an ...
More Email announcementOct. 13, 2010, 11:30 a.m. - Endohedral metallofullerenes: Metallic Clusters inside fullerene cages (Campus Seminar) (Harry C. Dorn)
Since the discovery of fullerenes 25 years ago, a plethora of new carbonaceous nanomaterials have been discovered including endofullerenes, nanotubes, nanohorns and graphene. Although the field of fullerenes, endohedral fullerenes, nanotubes and nanohorns is still relatively new, it is clear that there are a number of potential applications in diverse ...
More Email announcementOct. 22, 2010, 12 p.m. - Conducting polymer and environmental sensors (Mohamad M. Ayad)
The development of sensors with rapidly, reliability and reproducibility for on-line monitoring environmental pollutants, have received great interest. In the present talk sensors fabricated by using conducting polymers such as polyaniline (PANI) and polypyrrole (PPy) as the active layers have been considered. The sensors based on conducting polymer film coating ...
More Email announcementOct. 29, 2010, 12 p.m. - Introduction to the world of Hadoop (Gordon Rios)
In this talk I will introduce one of the most popular computing technologies called Hadoop. It was originally developed for large scale text mining based upon the principles of map-reduce from Google. Hadoop and related tools have rapidly become one of the most widespread frameworks for large scale data mining ...
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