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Lead-Free Piezoelectric Materials Of The FutureWashington DC (SPX) Sep 21, 2010 Piezoelectric materials have fantastic properties: squeeze them and they generate an electrical field. And vice-versa, they contract or expand when jolted with an electrical pulse. With a name derived from the Greek word meaning to squeeze or press, the piezoelectric effect was just a curiosity after it was discovered in several crystals in 1880. But in 1917, a quartz piezoelectric crystal was at the heart of the world's first submarine-detecting sonar. Piezoelectric materials really took of ... read more |
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Beijing (AFP) Sept 21, 2010China said Tuesday that US pressure on Beijing to boost the value of the yuan was "unwise and shortsighted", after US President Barack Obama criticised the country's exchange rate policy. "Recently, there have been some non-harmonious voices in the US criticising the yuan exchange rate," foreign ministry spokeswoman Jiang Yu said in a statement on the ministry's website. Some in the US ... more  
Beijing (AFP) Sept 21, 2010China on Tuesday ruled out prospects for fence-mending talks between its premier and Japan's leader this week in New York as the worst diplomatic crisis in years between the Asian powers deepened. Japan urged all players in the dispute - sparked by the arrest of a Chinese boat captain whose trawler collided with two Japanese vessels in disputed waters - to avoid resorting to "extreme natio ... more
Beijing (UPI) Sep 21, 2010 Sino-Japanese diplomatic and business relations are being stressed as China starts to pressure Japan to release a detained Chinese trawler captain. China said it is limiting its high-level meetings with Japanese diplomats and businessmen. In the Chinese city of Nanjing, former Chinese Foreign Minister Li Zhaoxing, now chairman of China's Foreign Affairs Committee of the National ... more |
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Japan calls for calm from China as boat row escalatesTokyo (AFP) Sept 20, 2010 Japan said Monday it regretted China's decision to suspend high-level exchanges over Tokyo's arrest of a Chinese boat captain in disputed waters, urging Beijing not to let the spat ruin their relationship. Beijing on Sunday had threatened Japan with "strong counter-measures" after Japan extended the detention of the boat captain accused of intentionally ramming his trawler into two Japanese patrol vessels in the East China Sea. The incident near an island chain claimed by both countries as well ... read more |
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