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Daniel L. Hertz Jr.. Daniel L. Hertz Jr. (February 27, 1930 - January 9, 2021) was an entrepreneur, executive and self-educated scientist noted for his leadership in the rubber industry.

Personal 

Hertz was born to Daniel L. Hertz Sr. and Elizabeth Beet Hertz in Montclair, New Jersey, on February 27, 1930. He married Isabel P. Waud.  He served in the Korean War in the Army.

Education 

Hertz attended Stevens Institute of Technology, studying mechanical engineering, but he was asked to leave after his freshman year.  He was later award an honorary degree, of which he said "that honorary degree came like a shot out of the blue... that kept me alive for years, it really did. After I was kicked out of Stevens, I thought if I ever showed up on campus I'd be lynched."

Career 
He worked for a time as a salesman for Precision Rubber Products, and for a distribution company named Linear.  At the age of 23, Hertz founded Seals Eastern Inc to design and manufacture o-rings.  In 1986, following the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster, NASA consulted with Hertz, and he appeared as an expert on the MacNeil-Leher Newshour and other media. He had particular expertise in nitrile rubber for oil and gas applications.

Awards

 1982 - honorary degree in Mechanical Engineering from Stephens Institute of Technology
 2006 - Melvin Mooney Distinguished Technology Award from Rubber Division of the ACS
 2007 - Executive of the Year, Rubber and Plastics News
 2015 - Raymond Hopp Lifetime Achievement Award for Excellence in New Jersey Manufacturing

References 

Polymer scientists and engineers
1930 births
2021 deaths
Stevens Institute of Technology alumni
People from Montclair, New Jersey
Liqun Zhang. Liqun Zhang is the president of South China University of Technology and Xi'an Jiaotong University.

Education 

Zhang obtained his BS (1990), MS (1992) and PhD (1995) degrees from Beijing University of Chemical Technology. He was a visiting scholar at the University of Akron from 1990 to 2000. He held a postdoctoral position at Case Western Reserve University from 2000 to 2001.

Career 

Zhang has been a professor at the College of Materials Science and Engineering (CMSE) at BUCT since 1995, and College Dean since 2016.

He accepted a position as president of SCUT in 2021. During his tenure, the university has established partnerships with BASF, with NTU Singapore, with Mahidol University.

Zhang is a member of the editorial board of the scientific journal Nano-Structures and Nano-Objects.

His most cited work concerns the application of a Halloysite clay nanotube to achieve a delayed release of antioxidants in a rubber compound, thus achieving an enhancement to anti-ageing properties.

Awards and recognition

 2012 - Sparks–Thomas award from the ACS Rubber Division.
 2012 - SCEJ Asia Research Award, The Society of Chemical Engineering, Japan
 2014 - Morand Lambla Award from International Polymer Processing Society
 2021 - Colwyn medal of the IOM3
 2021 - Fellow of the Chinese Academy of Engineering

References 

Polymer scientists and engineers
Members of the Chinese Academy of Engineering
1960s births
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
Beijing University of Chemical Technology alumni
Chhot. Chhot is a fishing boat, found in coastal water and coastal rivers of Bengal. This boats was widely used by fishermen in the lower reaches of the Rupnarayan and Hooghly rivers. The boat is capable of sailing in coastal waters.

Chhot boats were used for fishing as well as for transporting goods. However, the use of these boats is on the verge of extinction.

In 2022, Chhot boat building methods and techniques were documented. This documentation was completed by the Endangered Materials Knowledge Program (EMKP) funded by the British Museum.

History
No information is available on the history of the Chhot boat. The Jhumjhumi was famous for building these boats. These boats were used for fishing as well as carrying cargo until the mid-20th century, but are now used exclusively for fishing. Boats were loaded with rice from rice mills around Kolaghat and delivered to the destination. These boats also used to tow Khorokisti carrying straw from remote areas of the Sundarbans to Kolkata.

Reconstruction and documentation 

A reconstruction project was undertaken under a collaborative project between the University of Exeter in the United Kingdom and the Central University of Haryana in India to document Chhot boat construction knowledge. The reconstruction and documentation project is known as The chhot-builders of West Bengal, India: Documenting the vanishing craft knowledge of a unique boat-building tradition. A documentary on the making of "Chhot" boats was produced jointly by India and the United Kingdom, with Endangered Materials Knowledge Program by the financial support of the British Museum.

The construction work of Chhot was completed at Dihimandal Ghat at Shyampur, Howrah district, West Bengal. Panchanan Mandal was the main craftsman of this boat; Panchanan Mandal and his 4 sons built this almost defunct boat. The boat was built in about 40 days. All construction activities and procedures from start to finish of boat building are captured by videography, which has been preserved in a museum in England. On 10 November 2022, the boat made its first voyage. A total of Rs 350,000 was spent on the construction of the boat.

Architecture 
The design of a Chhot boat enables the boat to sail in coastal rivers and coastal waters. The hull of this boat is deep and pointed. The hull of the wooden boat is V-shaped, which allows the boat to remain stable in the water even when buffeted by waves or wind. Due to its basically "V" shape, the boat is suitable for coastal waters.

References 

Boats
Bengal
Zolana Joao. Zolana Joao is an Angolan Program Engineering Manager, space scientist, Engineer, and the first General Manager of the Angolan National Space Program Management Office (GGPEN).

Education 
Joao earned a Bachelor of Technology in Electrical Engineering from Tshwane University of Technology, dual master's degrees in electrical, electronic, and communication engineering from Tshwane and ESIEE Paris, and a Doctor of Engineering (D. Eng) in Management of complex and large-scale projects from George Washington University.

Career 
He served as acting dean, faculty of engineering Methodist University of Angola, a board member of the INACOM, and first general manager the National Space Program Management Office, designing the beginning of the Angolan space program.

For his work in Angolan space initiatives and space diplomacy, Joao was invited to the White House as head of an African Space Agency to be a speaker at the United States–Africa Leaders Summit 2022.

In 2022, Joao oversaw the launch of AngoSat 2, an HTS satellite aiming to bridge the digital divide in Africa. For this, he received the "Space without Borders" medal from Roscosmos.

He led the design and delivery of several remote sensing solutions, and his Tech-Gest solution was awarded in Top 20 excellent projects from the global 100 AI projects for SDG by IRCAI, UNESCO (2022).

References 

Angolan engineers
Angolan scientists
Living people
George Washington University alumni
ESIEE Paris alumni
Year of birth missing (living people)
Maine Air Museum. The Maine Air Museum is an aviation museum located at Bangor International Airport in Bangor, Maine.

History 
The Maine Aviation Historical Society was founded in 1967 and reformed in 1990. The society began monthly discussions with the city of Bangor in 1997 and two years later took possession of a building at the airport. This was followed one month later by the acquisition of a Stinson 10A from the Quonset Air Museum. After several years of work, the Maine Air Museum held its grand opening on 14 June 2003.

In 2007, the museum opened new exhibits about aerial firefighting during the 1947 fires on Mount Desert Island and aerial navigation in World War II. It received a number of new exhibits in 2010, including two about the physics of flight and a rotating beacon that had been used at Bangor International Airport. The next year, it acquired the engine and propeller of the NC-4, the first airplane to cross the Atlantic Ocean.

Facilities 
The museum is located in Building 98, a  concrete structure with  thick walls which was built in 1958 to assemble air-to-air missiles as part of Dow Air Force Base. A platform for viewing aircraft taking off and landing at the airport is attached to the side of the building.

Exhibits 
Exhibits at the museum include the airlines of Maine, military crash sites in the state, the disappearance of L'Oiseau Blanc and a 1920s aircraft mechanic's workshop. Another set of displays explain aerodynamic principles.

Collection

Aircraft 

 Bell UH-1H Iroquois
 Luscombe 8A
 RotorWay Scorpion
 Stinson 10A

Ground vehicles 

 1944 International crash truck

Other 

 Link Trainer
 Pratt & Whitney J57

References

Footnotes

Notes

External links 
 

Aerospace museums in Maine
Museums in Penobscot County, Maine
Tourist attractions in Bangor, Maine
1967 establishments in Maine
Museums established in 1967
Transportation in Maine
Direct-to-film printing. Direct-to-film printing (DTF) is a process of printing on textiles. The process involves the direct transfer of a design by first printing it on a special film and then using a heat press to transfer the design to a garment.

Overview 
In contrast to Direct-to-garment (DTG) printing, in which designs are printed directly onto the garments, DTF employs a two-step process. The first step in the Direct-to-film (DTF) printing method involves initially printing the design onto a PET (Polyethylene Terephthalate) film and then applying an adhesive powder to the printed film. In the second step, the design from the printed DTF film is then transferred to the garment using a heat press.

DTF films can be prepared using specialized printers, referred to as DTF printers.

DTF printed transfers can be used on a wide variety of  materials, including polyester, denim, cotton, leather and nylon.

This printing method is used on textiles including apparel such as T-shirts, jeans, jackets, hoodies, sportswear, and accessories like bags and belts. DTF is favored for its cost-effectiveness and capability to produce high-resolution prints. Specifically, for small batch printing, Direct to Film (DTF) printing is cost-effective.

References 

Textile printing
K. I. Sawyer Heritage Air Museum. The K. I. Sawyer Heritage Air Museum is a military aviation museum located at the Marquette Sawyer Regional Airport near Marquette, Michigan focused on the history of K. I. Sawyer Air Force Base.

History 

The museum was founded in 1993 by the Air Force Association Lake Superior Chapter 283 to preserve a number of aircraft on display at K. I. Sawyer Air Force Base following an announcement that the base would close. Without a sponsoring organization, the aircraft would be transferred to other locations by the Air Force. The museum was originally located in a gymnasium, but later moved to the Silver Wings Recreation Center.

The museum dedicated a new memorial in 2023.

Collection

Aircraft 

 Boeing B-52D Stratofortress
 Convair F-106A Delta Dart
 General Dynamics FB-111A Aardvark
 Lockheed T-33
 McDonnell F-101B Voodoo

Other 

 ADM-20 Quail

See also 
 List of aviation museums
 Wurtsmith Air Museum

References

External links 
 
 Help Preserve Military History at K.I. Sawyer Heritage Air Museum – TV6

Aerospace museums in Michigan
Military and war museums in Michigan
Museums in Marquette County, Michigan
BetterCommerce. BetterCommerce (also known as OmniCX Digital Limited) is an e-commerce platform headquartered in Harrow, London and known for its headless, API-first commerce platform. It was founded in 2015 and has operations in the UK and India.

History 
The company was founded by Vikram Saxena, a commerce graduate from Delhi University who later pursued an MBA at Amity Business School. He began his career as a corporate trainer on Microsoft Office 97 at IIS Infotech, developing an interest in programming that led to a career shift. He purchased his first computer through an insurance claim. He started coding and found his first job as a software engineer at Trident Information System and later worked at companies such as HCL, and Satyam. In 2004, while working with a distribution company, Saxena moved to Germany in a Solution Architect’s role. There, he designed and developed a B2B commerce portal used across Europe. In 2007, he left his job to focus on creating technology tools for businesses, founding Axtrum Solutions. In 2011, the company developed the Electronic Software Delivery (ESD) platform for Tech Data that earned it the 'Best Software Distributor Award' from Microsoft for three years. The platform was rolled out across 17 countries in Europe, the US, and Canada. In 2015, the team began developing an omnichannel and unified commerce platform, resulting in the formation of OmniCX, later rebranded as BetterCommerce.

In November 2021, the company acquired CanisHub and launched a new tool, BetterEngage.

In the same year, the company entered into a partnership with LAB Group, AdYogi, MTC, and Saffron Tech.

Awards 
In 2018, the company received a nomination at The Northern eCommerce Awards. In 2022, Gartner recognized the company as a Representative Vendor in Product Information Management (PIM). In 2023, the company received recognition in two instances: first, by Gartner in their Digital Commerce Vendor Guide, and second, by ELE Times as one of 'The Top 10 Big Data Companies in India.

References

External links 

 

Software companies established in 2015
Software companies based in London
E-commerce software
British companies established in 2015
2015 establishments in England
Gwadar Seawater Desalination Plant. The Gwadar Seawater Desalination Plant is a desalination project in Gwadar, Pakistan, aimed at meeting water shortages in the city. The plant was established with the support of the Chinese government and is designed to provide clean drinking water to the residents of Gwadar. The desalination plant was inaugurated on 30 June 2023.

Capacity and function
The plant can treat 1.2 million gallons of seawater per day. The water problem in Gwadar city is expected to be solved to a great extent. The plant is operational and supplies 5,000 tonnes of drinking water per day.

Construction and development
The construction of the desalination plant was completed in collaboration with the Gwadar Port Authority and China Harbor Engineering Company. By November 15, 2022, about 30 percent of the construction work had been completed. The pace of work was expected to be completed before April 2023.

The cost of this project was 2 billion rupees, which was financed by the Chinese government.

References

Desalination plants
Water desalination
Infrastructure in Pakistan
China–Pakistan relations
Gallium arsenide antimonide. Gallium arsenide antimonide, also known as gallium antimonide arsenide or GaAsSb (GaAs(1-x)Sbx), is a ternary III-V semiconductor compound; x indicates the fractions of arsenic and antimony in the alloy. GaAsSb refers generally to any composition of the alloy. It is an alloy of gallium arsenide (GaAs) and gallium antimonide (GaSb).

Preparation 
GaAsSb films have been grown by molecular beam epitaxy (MBE), metalorganic vapor phase epitaxy (MOVPE) and liquid phase epitaxy (LPE) on gallium arsenide, gallium antimonide and indium phosphide substrates. It is often incorporated into layered heterostructures with other III-V compounds.

Thermodynamic Stability 
GaAsSb has a miscibility gap at temperatures below 751 °C. This means that intermediate compositions of the alloy below this temperature are thermodynamically unstable and can spontaneously separate into two phases: one GaAs-rich and one GaSb-rich. This limits the compositions of GaAsSb that can be obtained by near-equilibrium growth techniques, such as LPE, to those outside of the miscibility gap. However, compositions of GaAsSb within the miscibility gap can be obtained with non-equilibrium growth techniques, such as MBE and MOVPE. By carefully selecting the growth conditions (e.g., the ratios of precursor gases in MOVPE) and maintaining relatively low temperatures during and after growth, it is possible to obtain compositions of GaAsSb within the miscibility gap that are kinetically stable. For example, this makes it possible to grow GaAsSb with the composition GaAs0.51Sb0.49, which, while normally within the miscibility gap at typical growth temperatures, can exist as a kinetically stable alloy. This composition of GaAsSb is latticed matched to InP and is sometimes used in heterostructures grown on that substrate.

Electronic Properties 

The bandgap and lattice constant of GaAsSb alloys are between those of pure GaAs (a = 0.565 nm, Eg = 1.42 eV) and GaSb (a = 0.610 nm, Eg = 0.73 eV). Over all compositions, the band gap is direct, like in GaAs and GaSb. Furthermore, the bandgap displays a minimum in composition at approximately x = 0.8 at T = 300 K, reaching a minimum value of Eg = 0.67 eV, which is slightly below that of pure GaSb.

Applications 
GaAsSb has been extensively studied for use in heterojunction bipolar transistors.  It has also been lattice-matched with InGaAs on InP to create and study a two-dimensional electron gas.

A GaAsSb/GaAs-based heterostructure was used to make a near-infrared photodiode with peak responsivity centered at 1.3 μm.

GaAsSb can be incorporated into III-V–based multi-junction solar cells to reduce the tunneling distance and increase the tunneling current between adjacent cells.

References

External links 
 Properties of GaAsSb

Antimonides
Arsenides
Gallium compounds
III-V compounds
Mergon. Mergon (formerly Marpac) is an Irish injection and blow molding manufacturer which creates products for the automotive, healthcare and industrial sectors. As of 2022, the CEO was Patrick Beirne and the company reportedly had approximately "1,000 employees worldwide".

History 
The company was founded, as Marpac International Limited, on  in Castlepollard, County Westmeath, the Irish subsidiary of the U.S.-based plastic manufacturing company, Marpac Industries Incorporated. The new factory, which was classed as a IDA advance factory, was announced by the then Minister for Posts and Telegraphs, Albert Reynolds in February 1981. It was also said that the company would create 40 jobs by 1982 with the planned investment of £200,000 in the plant and machinery. In May 1981, the Castlepollard factory commenced operations. By April 1982, the company had 25 employees and was due to be officially opened by Suzanne Sykes, the president of the parent group. Marpac Industries Inc was acquired by PVC Container Corp in 1987.

In 1988, the Irish subsidiary changed its name to Mergon International and became fully Irish owned. As of 2022 it was led by Patrick Beirne (Beirne had formerly been a manager at Marpac Ireland).

In 1991, Mergon won a Xerox Corporation award for "product innovation and quality manufacturing".

References 

Companies of the Republic of Ireland
IBM Condor. IBM Condor is a 1,121-qubit quantum processor created by IBM, unveiled during the IBM Quantum Summit 2023, which occurred on December 4, 2023. It is the 2nd largest quantum processor (in terms of qubits), just shy of the 1,125-qubit quantum processor by the company Atom, created in October 2023.

It has a similar performance to its predecessor, the IBM Osprey.

It has a 50% increase in qubit density compared to the IBM Osprey, and over a mile of high-density cryogenic flex IO wiring.

It is not as fast as the IBM Heron, unveiled during the same event.

References 

Quantum computing
IBM microprocessors
Todd Coleman. Todd Prentice Coleman (born 1977) is an American electrical engineer and associate professor at Stanford University. He is a Fellow of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering and Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers.

Early life and education 
Coleman completed his undergraduate and graduate degrees at the University of Michigan. He moved to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology for his doctoral research, where he used low complexity approaches to distributed data dissemination. He worked alongside Muriel Médard using Slepian–Wolf coding. He was a postdoctoral researcher at Massachusetts General Hospital, where he worked in computational neuroscience.

Research and career 
Coleman uses bioelectronics, mathematics and physiology to create new technologies. He started his faculty career at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and University of California, San Diego. He joined Stanford University in 2021.

Coleman creates wearable sensors for medical imaging and biological applications. The sensors that Coleman has developed can monitor temperature and heart rate, and wirelessly transfer information to recording devices (e.g. smart phones). Coleman created an array of sensors for gastrointestinal disease, which can be attached to the abdomen and record EKG information whilst patients go about their normal routine.

Awards and honours 

 2015 National Academy of Engineering Gilbreth Lecturer
 2019 Fellow of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering
 2022 Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
 2022 Frontiers Lecture

Select publications

References 

1977 births
Living people
Massachusetts Institute of Technology alumni
University of Michigan alumni
Stanford University faculty
American electrical engineers
21st-century American engineers
German Institute for Rubber Technology. The German Institute for Rubber Technology. is a publicly funded nonprofit organization, based in Hanover Germany, whose purpose is the advancement of applied research in rubber technology. The mission includes both the chemical and physical behavior of rubber, and the reduction to practice of applications. It has been noted for producing many of the scientists working in the German rubber industry.  It has been noted for its leadership in the tire industry on the topic of tire wear particles in the environment.

History
The institute was founded in 1981 on the initiative of the German rubber industry and the Lower Saxony Ministry of Economics, Labor, and Transport (ADK) with Dr. Gottfried Pampus as its initial director.  The founding of the institute occurred during a period of expansion in Germany of 3rd party funding by means of institutionalized collaboration between academia and private industry.  In 2004, a 1.5 million Euro expansion was made to add seminar rooms and a library. In 2010, a 3.6 Million Euro floor space expansion was opened. It is a founding member of the European Research & Rubber Laboratories (ERRLAB) initiative. In 2011, it established a Rubber Excellence Partnership with Lanxess and Qingdao University of Science and Technology. It organizes a Fall Rubber Colloquium annually

Notable researchers
 Anke Blume
 Ulrich Giese - director of DIK from 2010-present
 Manfred Klüppel
 Robert Schuster - director of DIK from 1992-2010

References

Rubber industry
Research institutes in Germany