Silica beads have been designed to stick to ice and water and not attract oil-based pollutants. Ice911 thinks they could restore ice reflectivity and help lower temperatures by 1.5 degrees if they ...

The silica beads, she says, are “the backup plan I hoped we’d never need”. The emissions from travel it took to report this story were 0kg CO2. The digital emissions from this story are an ...

Although silica beads are not gems, the porous mineral does come from the ground. ... Glass production uses up another roughly 10 percent. “Recently, [the US has] ...

One nonprofit wants to blanket parts of glaciers in glass beads to reflect sunlight and ... some of which were reported in a May 2018 study, suggest the silica beads did indeed increase ice ...

Using a flame-spray technique, Rosenflanz and coworkers were able to generate 140-µm-diameter glass beads containing 80% alumina from alumina alloyed with a variety of rare-earth oxides.

Microscopic glass beads coated with lipid membranes provide a sensitive detector of interactions between proteins and ligands. ... Baksh et al. 1 saw that silica beads, ...

Most three-dimensional glass objects are produced via either a molding, blowing or 3D-printing process. Chinese scientists, ... throughout which silica beads were suspended.