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Chinese Firms Launch World-first Graphene Phones

Mar 04, 2015

Two Chinese firms have beaten global competition to launch phones with touch screens, batteries and thermal conduction incorporating graphene, a recently isolated material with outstanding electrical, chemical and mechanical properties.

A batch of 30,000 such phones was jointly put on sale by the Moxi and Galapad technology firms on Monday in southwest China's Chongqing Municipality.

The use of graphene can make touch screens more sensitive and prolong battery life by 50 percent, according to the producers.

The key technology for the new phones, which use the Android system and will sell for 2,499 yuan (406 U.S. dollars) each, was developed by the Chinese Academy of Sciences.

Graphene is a single layer of carbon atoms in a honeycomb lattice. It was first isolated in 2004. Scientists worldwide have been rushing to test it.

China leads the world in the mass production of graphene films for phone and computer touch screens. In 2013, a production line capable of producing tens of millions of graphene films every year went into operation in Chongqing. (Xinhua)

Excellent...I wonder has anyone 3D print a car made out of graphene material yet?
 

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57 story high-rise built in 19 days. At the end of the video it says at the 20th floor construction stop for some regulation reason for a year but still a total of 19 days.


Dang it...you beat me to it!:p:cool:

Anyway, that's the future right there. China's building tech with modular pre-fab contruction and along with 3D printing houses are far ahead of anyone else.
 

broadsword

Brigadier
More on that building


Wow, China builds complete 57-story skyscraper in record 19 days

Sploid reader Xian Min Zhang sent us the latest time-lapse video of the construction of his latest building: A 57-floor 2-million-square-foot (180,000-square-meter) skyscraper fully built with energy-efficient, factory-produced Lego-like blocks. He claims that they are now building these at a record three floors per day!

The company keeps increasing their building speed and size of these buildings at an impressive rate. It is still not the 220-story skyscraper they claimed they were going to build, but it is amazing nonetheless.

This building has 19 10-meter-high atriums, 800 apartments, and office space for 4,000 people. Zhang claims that the use of modules reduced the use of concrete by 15,000 trucks, which he says almost eliminated all the release of dust in the air, an important advantage in pollution-ridden China. Talking about pollution: He claims that all of the air inside is 99.9% pure thanks to the tight construction and built-in air conditioning system. The building has quadruple-pane glass and, he says, is so energy efficient it will save 12,000 tons of CO2 emission compared to a building of the same size and use.
 

mzyw

Junior Member
some important news regarding future of chinese science research:
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The government will no longer authorize or fund science and technology projects directly, but focus instead on making development plans, assessing projects and monitoring evaluation and research funds, the science and technology minister said on Wednesday.

"The key to managing science and technology research is to take good care of the relationship between government and the market," said Wan Gang, who also is a member of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference. "The ministry has already canceled and transferred some power to authorize and launch projects, activating the market's energy," Wan added, saying that this will reduce administrative interference with research and encourage innovation.

The government's job is to provide better service and administration to inspire science innovation, Wan said.

For decades, the Ministry of Science and Technology had great power to approve projects and allocate research funds, thus determining the direction of research. Academia and society have widely criticized the government, saying it had too big a hand in influencing China's research.

"Many professors are busy socializing with officials (to get projects) and spend less time in the lab for research," said Shi Yigong, a National People's Congress deputy and dean of the School of Life Sciences at Tsinghua University.

To change the situation, Shi said, the science and technology evaluation system must be changed.

Qian Feng, a CPPCC member and deputy president of East China University of Science and Technology in Hubei province, said: "The majority of research funds come from the Ministry of Finance under the current system. Is it possible to hand over the power to local government? Some places have already tried transferring intellectual property and research innovation decisions to universities."

Qian said this would reduce administrative interference and accelerate the transfer of university research achievements to the marketplace.

The ministry has already begun changing its role from that of sponsor to supervisor.

In December, the State Council issued a reform on the administration of State scientific research funds.

According to the reform, the government will hand over the power of fund allocation to third-party professional institutes.
 

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BEIJING - China had more invention patent applications than any other country in 2014 for the fourth year running, official data showed on Monday.

The number of invention patent applications filed to the State Intellectual Property Office (SIPO) in 2014 stood at 928,000, up 12.5 percent from 2013, the SIPO said.

The office authorized a total of 233,000 invention patents in the year, 163,000 of which were from Chinese applicants.

By the end of 2014, China had 663,000 invention patents with high quality and market value, and the number of invention patents per 10,000 Chinese people reached 4.9, the SIPO said.

China has seen rising numbers of patent applications as part of a drive to upgrade the economy. However, the country's invention patents still lack a competitive edge, experts said.

One of the government's priorities has been to boost innovation by improving intellectual property rights protection.

Could some body tell me how are the patent measured between different countries, do the companies, universities in each individual countries apply patent in their own countries and than each country publish them or is there a pool of patent run by the UN or somebody?

Aldo moderators can we make this trend a sticky pls?
 
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