It's not easy being green. Did you know that more than 20 eco-unfriendly processing steps go into a traditional pair of pre-washed jeans? During the last decade, many denim manufacturers have begun changing the environmental hazards of their processing by recycling their wastes and greening their production steps. With STN®, we will investigate some of the new green trends in denim manufacturing.
Trend Barometer
New inventions in current research fields in 2011 (worldwide)
Last update: 16 January 2012
Source: STN databases
CAplus(SM), DWPI(SM) and INPAFAMDB
FIZ News
December 2011
Wechsel an der Spitze – Professor Gert-Martin Greuel zum neuen Chefredakteur des Zentralblatts für Mathematik ernannt
Meet us at
PIUG Biotechnology Meeting,
Boston, Feb 07
46. GDM - Jahrestagung der Gesellschaft für Didaktik der Mathematik,
Weingarten, Mar 05-09
Crystallography
Materials science is one of the central sciences and also affects many aspects of everyday life, as newly developed or further developed materials with specific properties result in new products or in significant improvements on existing products. For example, light weight, high mechanical stability and good weather resistance are current research goals in materials science, where the focus lies on the interdependence between the structure of materials and their macroscopic properties.
The Inorganic Crystal Structure Database (ICSD) is the world’s biggest database of fully evaluated and published crystal structure data. Science and industry are offered high-quality records that will provide a basis for studies in materials science, e.g. for identifying unknown substances. ICSD contains about 130,000 crystal structures of inorganic substances published since 1913. About 1,300 journals are scanned each year for database production. In order to ensure completeness as far as possible, also retroactive updates are made at regular intervals. Metals were included in ICSD several years ago when the former distinction between inorganic compounds and metals was found to be inconvenient. The metal structures were recorded retroactively in cooperation with FIZ Karlsruhe’s partner, NIST (National Institute for Science and Technology, Washington, DC, USA).
For more than 25 years FIZ Karlsruhe has been offering the crystal structure depot as a free service to the scientific community.