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According to a news release on Wednesday by the Rice University, the foam is highly porous and its properties can be tuned for use in air filters and as gas absorption materials.
Materials scientist Pulickel Ajayan and his team discovered freeze-drying h-BN turned it into a macro-scale foam that disintegrates in liquids. But adding a bit of polyvinyl alcohol (PVA) into the mix transformed it into a far more robust and useful material.
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Their work appears in the American Chemical Society journal ACS Nano. Rice graduate student Peter Owuor is lead author of the paper.
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"Uber failed consumers in two key ways: First by misrepresenting the extent to which it monitored its employees' access to personal information about users and drivers, and second by misrepresenting that it took reasonable steps to secure that data," FTC Acting Chairman Maureen Ohlhausen was quoted as saying in a news release. "This case shows that, even if you're a fast growing company, you can't leave consumers behind: you must honor your privacy and security promises."
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