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30

Wikibooks

June 30, 2006 | Leave a Comment

Wikibooks. ‘Wikibooks is a collection of free instructional textbooks that are being written collaboratively by the readers of this web site. As an alternative to the proprietary model used by publishers of more expensive textbooks, Wikibooks uses the GNU Free Documentation License so that anyone may copy, modify, and reuse our textbooks. You can participate [...]

Jun

30

Organic Gel Nanomaterials

June 30, 2006 | Leave a Comment

Researchers Create New Organic Gel Nanomaterials. ‘Researchers have created organic gel nanomaterials that could be used to encapsulate pharmaceutical, food, and cosmetic products and to build 3-D biological scaffolds for tissue engineering. Using olive oil and six other liquid solvents, the scientists added a simple enzyme to chemically activate a sugar that changed the liquids [...]

Jun

30

Plastic from Fructose

June 30, 2006 | Leave a Comment

Just One Word: Fructose. ‘Plastic could be made from a common form of sugar instead of petroleum if the industry adopts a new process developed by scientists at the University of Wisconsin at Madison. With concern growing over America’s reliance on finite resources such as oil, there’s mounting pressure to develop renewable sources for traditionally [...]

Jun

26

e-Learning Guidebook

June 26, 2006 | Leave a Comment

E-Learning: A Guidebook of Principles, Procedures and Practices. ‘This guidebook will help readers to systematically approach their engagement with e-learning, irrespective of the educational sector or level within which they may be working. The content of this guidebook has been carefully selected to enable readers to consider all the issues in relation to e-learning. Besides [...]

Jun

26

A New Biofuel: Biobutanol

June 26, 2006 | Leave a Comment

Dupont, BP Set to Market Sugar Beet-Based Biofuel. ‘Chemical maker DuPont said Tuesday it will begin marketing biofuels for the transportation sector next year through a partnership with oil company BP plc. The companies said a collaboration they began in 2003 has advanced to the point where they plan to introduce butanol made from sugar [...]

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