We aim to build confidence in the safety and reliability of payment service providers’ services while protecting end users from specific risks. We’re taking steps to better understand the impacts of ...

Plastic is a huge concern for the environment. When consumer products and industrial waste break down, the environment ...

Graduate Program in Materials Science, Federal University of São Carlos─UFSCar, 18052-780 Sorocaba, São Paulo, Brazil Technological College of Sorocaba─Fatec, 18013-280 Sorocaba, São Paulo, Brazil ...

bp has taken the final investment decision (FID) to build a 100MW green hydrogen plant at its refinery in Lingen Germany. Supported by funding from the Important Projects of Common European Interest ...

A separate challenge, but just as relevant to climate change, is the scale up of green hydrogen, which is often viewed as the key to replacing fossil fuels in areas like industry, shipping and ...

The hydrogen bond of the crystalline region breaks ... while the mixed starch is expressed electropositive due to its cationic groups. As the product of cellulose, paper inherits the electrical ...

LONDON, Dec 17 (Reuters) - Investors have poured a record $600 billion into global bond funds this year, taking advantage of some of the highest yields in decades ahead of an uncertain 2025.

However, this perspective can be misleading, particularly when the fixed-income portion of a portfolio consists of anything other than bonds held to maturity. Bond funds—the most common way ...

The results showed that this advanced polyurethane displayed excellent mechanical and self-healing properties due to the presence of a large number of hard segment structures with dynamic imine bonds.

NEW YORK, Dec 16 (Reuters) - Bond investors, expecting the Federal Reserve to cut interest rates by a quarter of a percentage point on Wednesday, are bracing for the central bank to scale back its ...

Cellulose nanocrystals (CNCs) are known for several features which make them one ... This method facilitates the evaluation of molecule bonds to CNC, employing a reporter fluorescent molecule (in this ...