This study pioneers a cost-effective and scalable technique for preparing high-quality, highly-graphitized reduced graphene oxide (HG-RGO) from coal tar pitch (CTP), as an abundant aromatic precursor.

Heavy oil and vacuum residue were used to obtain road bitumen BND 50/70 using two different methods of steam distillation at 323–362 °C and by oxidation, a method using packed column at temperature of ...

The durability of asphalt depends crucially on bitumen—the black binder that holds the small stones in the asphalt together. As the bitumen ages, it can change its properties and become brittle, ...

As this report demonstrates, diluted bitumen has unique properties that differentiate it from commonly transported crude oils. Because of these properties, diluted bitumen’s behavior in the ...

The scientists used mass spectrometry to date the bitumen MIPT Russian archaeologists have discovered an ancient Greek urn full of dense bitumen in the Taman Peninsula on the Black Sea. A ...

Praj Industries, one of India’s leading industrial biotech companies, has developed innovative technology to produce bio-bitumen based on lignin. The Netherlands-based Circular Biobased Delta, one of ...

A research team at the University of Cordoba has identified, for the first time, the composition of a Roman perfume more than 2,000 years old thanks to the discovery of a small vessel of ointment in ...