Discoveries of Elements by Nations

Discovery of elements by nations It is an interesting periodic table (needs reference) showing the elements with the nation tags of their discoveries.

Do you know that the Start-Up company PAVEZYUM that our laboratory is widely collaborating is named after the all chemistry students of Koç University that are graduated in 2004?  It resembles an element and a creative way to name a company right?

(Pınar, Alper, Volkan, Ekin, Zeynep, Yeliz, Umut, Mehmet)

 

Crush Safer, Airbags will evolve!

Airbags are energy dumping units during a crush which are activated after a series of systems in the order of:

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  • Sensors and Trigger (Electronic devices)
  • Explosion Chamber
    • Initiator Pyrotechnic Chemicals (Mostly BPN – Boron Potassium Nitrates)
    • Inflator Chemicals (Mostly azides)
  • Physical Bag (Physical designs)

During a collision motion sensor generates electricity which initiates the pyrotechnic initiator to explode and generate heat to burn the inflator to be converted into large amount of gas which will instantly fills the physical bag.  The whole series take approximately 40-50 ms.  AirbagScreenshots

KU-Inorganics Research Labs get the Seed Funding from Koç University Research Council to integrate the advance boron into the conventional BPN unit in the Airbag industry.  According to the experiments the explosion thermodynamics is improved 30-120°C.

Long for short, soon we will be declaring that you can either drive faster or crush safer… Your choice.