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When graphene speaks, scientists can now listen
Jan 21, 2022 (SPX)
Case in point: Two brothers in a Rice University laboratory heard something unusual while making graphene. Ultimately, they determined the sound itself could gi...
Decarbonisation tech instantly converts CO2 to solid carbon
Jan 20, 2022 (SPX)
The carbon dioxide utilisation technology from researchers at RMIT University in Melbourne, Australia, is designed to be smoothly integrated into existing indus...
Overcoming a bottleneck in carbon dioxide conversion
Jan 12, 2022 (SPX)
Now, researchers at MIT have identified, quantified, and modeled a major reason for poor performance in such conversion systems. The culprit turns out to be a l...
Safer carbon capture and storage
Jan 01, 2022 (SPX)
It involves the capture of CO2 from emissions from industrial processes, or from the burning of fossil fuels in power generation, which is then stored undergrou...
New technique tunes into graphene nanoribbons' electronic potential
Jan 01, 2022 (SPX)
Many researchers have sought to harness nanoribbons' unusual magnetic behavior into carbon-based, spintronics devices that enable high-speed, low-power data sto...
Controlled burning of natural environments could help offset our carbon emissions
Dec 30, 2021 (SPX)
The finding points to a new method of manipulating the world's natural capacity for carbon capture and storage, which can also help to maintain natural ecosyste...
EU expects 17 bn euros from carbon tax, other revenues
Dec 22, 2021 (AFP)
Money from the three new revenue streams would go to pay down debt raised to cover a chunk of the bloc's 800-billion-euro coronavirus recovery fund, branded as ...
MicroCarb first European mission to characterise greenhouse gas fluxes on Earth's surface
Dec 15, 2021 (SPX)
MicroCarb is the first European mission intended to map greenhouse gas fluxes on Earth's surface and gauge the terrestrial sources and sinks - including how muc...
Resolving the puzzles of graphene superconductivity
Dec 10, 2021 (SPX)
In this state electrical resistance vanishes due to the quantum nature of the electrons. The discovery was published and debated in Nature, whilst the origins r...
A research strategy for ocean carbon dioxide removal and sequestration
Dec 10, 2021 (SPX)
The National Academies will appoint an ad-hoc committee to explore ocean-based approaches to carbon dioxide removal (CDR) and sequestration and provides a path ...
Low concentrations of CO2-CO direct conversion technology
Dec 09, 2021 (SPX)
The Korean Institute of Science and Technology (KIST, President Seok-jin Yoon) announced that the research team of Dr. Da Hye Won and Dr. Ung Lee at Clean Energ...
Scientists use sunlight and modified sawdust to reversibly capture carbon dioxide
Dec 09, 2021 (SPX)
In a study published in the KeAi journal Green Energy and Environment, a group of researchers from Renmin University of China propose a new method to capture CO...
Development of a single-process platform for the manufacture of graphene quantum dots
Dec 06, 2021 (SPX)
Interest in graphene quantum dots is growing, because recent research has demonstrated that controlling the proportion of heteroatoms (such as nitrogen, sulfur,...
Satellites to enable monitoring of CO2 emissions
Dec 02, 2021 (SPX)
At the COP26 climate summit, the nations of the world agreed on a new document that for the first time mentions phasing out coal and fossil fuels, and reiterate...
Europe carbon price hits new record
Nov 25, 2021 (AFP)
Just before midday, prices hit an all-time pinnacle at 74.39 euros per tonne, extending Wednesday's record-breaking run. Carbon trading, a key way to prevent cl...
A step towards increasing CO2 uptake in plants
Nov 19, 2021 (SPX)
But the most important and fundamental function of life on Earth - photosynthesis - has not been relevant with regards to plant selection or breeding until now,...
Graphene-like 2D material leverages quantum effects for ultra-low friction
Nov 19, 2021 (SPX)
Magnetene is a 2D material, meaning it is composed of a single layer of atoms. In this respect, it is similar to graphene, a material that has been studied inte...
Meadow biomass contributes to understanding the potential of carbon sequestration
Nov 18, 2021 (SPX)
The former determine the amount of biomass produced in the future available for use as biological resources by humans, the latter - the formation of the habitat...
How the secret world of soil microbes helps keep carbon in the ground
Nov 18, 2021 (SPX)
"Microbes are everywhere and in everything," says Kristen DeAngelis, professor of microbiology at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and senior author of t...
Carbon dioxide monitoring satellite given the shakes
Nov 11, 2021 (ESA)
As the reality of climate change is hitting hard, the target of limiting global temperature rise to 1.5 C is critical if we have any hope combating climate chan...
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