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• Converting plastic to lubricating oil

  - 2006-04-01

  Recycled plastic bottles could be used to lubricate car engines one day, relate researchers at Chevron Energy Technology Company, Richmond, Calif., and the University of Kentucky, Lexington, who converted waste plastic into lubricating oil in laboratory experiments. These polyethylene-derived oils could help improve fuel economy and reduce the frequency of...

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• Stretchable silicon making waves.(Eureka: Emerging Technologies)(University of Kentucky)

  - 2006-01-01

  A new form of silicon has been developed by researchers at the Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign UIUC. This fully stretchable form of single-crystal silicon has wave-like geometries and can be used to build high-performance electronic devices on rubber substrates. "Stretchable silicon offers...

  Tags: electronics, geometry, HARDWARE, researcher, ribbon, Semiconductors, silicon, University of Kentucky

• Oil from recycled polymers.(ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES)

  - 2005-08-01

  Researchers at Chevron Corp and the University of Kentucky, USA, have jointly developed a method of recycling waste plastic into lubricating oil for automobile engines. The researchers suggest that the PE-derived oils could help improve fuel economy and reduce the frequency of oil changes....

  Tags: Chevron Corp., INTERNET, polymer, researcher, U.S., University of Kentucky

• Plastic oil reverts to form

  - 2005-07-01

  RECYCLED PLASTIC BOTTLES COULD one day lubricate your car's engine, said researchers at Chevron and the University of Kentucky, who in laboratory experiments converted waste plastic into lubricating oil.These polyethylene-derived oils could help improve fuel economy and reduce the frequency of oil changes."This technology potentially could have a significant environmental...

  Tags: Chevron Corp., Manufacturing, Outsourcing, researcher, University of Kentucky

• Researcher finds alcohol use inhibits male impulse control.(Alcohol)(Brief Article)

  - 2004-11-01

  Getting men to work on impulse control while drunk or debunking current stereotypes about drunken behavior may help reduce violence associated with alcohol use, a new study hints. Researchers at the University of Kentucky found that males lacked the ability to control their...

  Tags: alcohol, beverage, Manufacturing, researcher, University of Kentucky, women

• Fall-seeding alfalfa can be risky business

  - 1995-12-01

  In the cooler, moist conditions that follow summer's heat, this fungus can devastate a new alfalfa stand by causing rots that kill seedlings before they mature.A legume that fixes its own nitrogen, alfalfa is grown as a high-protein hay and forage crop for livestock. But in such south-central states as...

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