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- OSU researchers claim wood-plastic breakthrough
- CORVALLIS, OR -- Wood science researchers in the College of Forestry at Oregon State University have developed new wood-plastic composites that they say are stronger and less expensive than any similar products now available. Kaichang Li, an associate professor in the OSU Department of Wood Science and Engineering, said,...
- Research articles 2006-12-01
- A new superfood
- Researchers at Oregon State University have developed a variety of small purple tomato that is already slated to become a superfood when it goes on sale in two years. It contains higher levels of the antioxidant anthocyanin.
- Research articles 2006-11-04
- University researchers develop new wood adhesive
- CORVALLIS, OR -- Researchers at Oregon State University's College of Forestry have developed a new group of soy-based adhesives that they say could provide an environmental alternative to urea formaldehyde resins used in the manufacture of particleboard, MDF, plywood and other wood-based composites. The new wood adhesives are made...
- Research articles 2005-05-01
- New Adhesive May Impact Wood Product, Soy Bean Industries
- CORVALLIS, Ore. -- A new group of adhesives developed by researchers from the College of Forestry at Oregon State University may revolutionize a large portion of the wood products industry, provide a significant new market for soy beans, and have important environmental and economic benefits. The discovery has resulted...
- Research articles 2005-04-11
- Development in Transparent Inorganic Thin Film Transistors.(research of amorphous heavy-metal cation multicomponent oxides)
- Researchers at Oregon State University OSU and Hewlett Packard (Corvallis, OR) have developed an entirely new class of materials which could be used to make transparent transistors that are inexpensive, stable, and environmentally benign. Possible applications include electronic devices produced so cheaply that they could almost...
- Research articles 2005-03-01
- OSU Scientists Able to Harness Plankton Power
- Over the past two years, scientists have successfully tapped the chemical reactions from decomposing organic matter on the ocean floor to create fuel cells that can provide low levels of electrical power for months. Now, Oregon State University OSU researchers have announced they have taken that development a step farther...
- Research articles 2004-09-01
- Wyden, DeFazio Announce Key Grant for Oregon's Nanoscience Initiative; Nanofabrication Equipment to Be Housed at UO
- EUGENE, Ore. -- The state of Oregon's strength in nanoscience has drawn yet another major grant, Sen. Ron Wyden and Rep. Peter DeFazio announced today (Friday, Aug. 20) at the University of Oregon. The National Science Foundation NSF has awarded the UO $402,000 for a new electron beam lithography...
- Research articles 2004-08-20
- OSU Researchers Convert Plankton Power Into Electricity
- Oregon State University OSU researchers recently announced they have successfully harnessed the power-producing decomposition activity from plankton taken from the upper water column of the ocean. According to OSU, Hatfield Marine Science Center researchers in Newport have successfully directed approximately 10 percent of the energy associated with plankton decomposition...
- Research articles 2004-08-06
- Raisins add nutrition, flavor to jerky
- Raisins may soon find a new application: keeping beef jerky tasty, more nutritious and safe. Researchers at Oregon State University have determined that raisins are an excellent substitute for sodium nitrite, a preservative commonly used in beef jerky. In addition to inhibiting bacterial growth, raisins bring multiple nutritional benefits...
- Research articles 2004-04-01
- OSU making waves with new ocean-simulating pool
- Byline: Karen McCowan The Register-Guard CORVALLIS - What's bigger than a basketball court, able to create killer waves at a single keystroke, and way cooler than a slide rule? It's the Oregon State University College of Engineering's latest research tool, the Tsunami Wave Basin. ...
- Research articles 2003-08-31
- SMALL PACKAGES.(mesoscopic energy systems research)
- Reducing energy systems to the mesoscopic scale may one day yield fuel reformers for electric cars, 20 times the portable energy of batteries, or perhaps a visit to Mars. OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY researchers call it MECS, for "microtechnology-based energy and chemical systems." Battelle's...
- Research articles 2001-06-01
- Fertilizers linked to amphibian deaths
- Oregon State University OSU researchers have discovered that a level of nitrogen-based compounds deemed safe for drinking water by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency EPA is enough to kill some amphibians. Studies show that several frogs, toads and other amphibians, especially at vulnerable larval stages, are susceptible to low...
- Research articles 2000-03-01
- Midwest farmers get a new crop for a new millennium.
- M2 PRESSWIRE-7 December 1999-US ARS: Midwest farmers get a new crop for a new millennium C1994-2000 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:061299 By Linda McGraw Farmers in the next millennium may plant new crops on land where corn and soybeans...
- Research articles 1999-12-07
- Heat makes a ceramic shrink. (potential uses of ceramic product zirconium tungstate that shrinks when heated)(Emerging Technologies)(BriefArticle)
- 00-00-0000 MOST MATERIALS EXPAND WHEN they're heated, but a new exception has been found by researchers at Oregon State University in Corvallis and at Brookhaven National Laboratory in Upton, New York. It is a ceramic--a blend of tungsten, oxygen, and zirconium atoms called zirconium ...
- Research articles 1996-05-20
- Libraries of the future ... Pauling Collection to go on-line. (Nobel Prize-winning chemist Linus Pauling)
- Oregon State University's Kerr Library Special Collections is creating an electronic text retrieval and imaging system that stores historic documents digitally. LaserFiche imaging software and Calera optical character recognition software will be used to create facsimiles of documents and accompanying text. One of the collections to be stored is that...
- Research articles 1994-10-01
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- Mussel-inspired adhesive created by Oregon State University
- A new wood adhesive created by an Oregon State University researcher is gaining popularity in the sustainable building materials industry. Developed by Kaichang Li, who was inspired by watching mussels cling to rocks on the Oregon coast, the new cost-effective adhesive could replace urea-formaldehyde, which is used for...
- Research articles 2008-08-21
- Hemp Issue Divides Oregon Farmers, the Law.
- Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Apr. 23 -- SALEM, Ore. -- Oregon State University researcher Daryl Ehrensing neatly summed up the debate over industrial hemp, a plant whose fibers can be used for cloth, paper and rope but which has the disadvantage of being close...
- Research articles 1999-04-25
- Obama chooses top science advisers
- WASHINGTON - President-elect Barack Obama has selected two of the nation's most prominent scientific advocates for a vigorous response to climate change to serve in his administration's top ranks, according to sources, sending the strongest signal yet that he will reverse Bush administration policies on energy and global warming. The...
- News items 2009-08-07
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