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Graphene-reinforced carbon fiber may lead to affordable, stronger car materials
May 19, 2020 (SPX)
For decades, carbon fibers have been a mainstay of airplane production. If created in the right way, these long strands of carbon-based atoms, narrower than hum...
Artificial intelligence helps researchers up-cycle waste carbon
May 14, 2020 (SPX)
They leveraged AI to speed up the search for the key material in a new catalyst that converts carbon dioxide (CO2) into ethylene - a chemical precursor to a wid...
Researchers map tiny twists in magic-angle graphene
May 11, 2020 (SPX)
In 2018, MIT scientists led by Pablo Jarillo-Herrero and Yuan Cao discovered that when two sheets of graphene are stacked together at a slightly offset "magic" ...
Carbon footprint hotspots: Mapping China's export-driven emissions
May 11, 2020 (SPX)
But U.S. dependence on China extends far beyond surgical masks and N95 respirators. China is the largest producer of many industrial and consumer products shipp...
Graphene sets sail in microgravity
May 07, 2020 (SPX)
In a light-hearted leap for humankind, ESA-backed researchers demonstrate the laser-propulsion of graphene sails in microgravity. Let me play among the stars Ph...
Dirty carbon reveals a sophisticated side
Apr 28, 2020 (SPX)
And it's not just tar. Professor Jeffrey Grossman has a very different view of other fossil fuels as well. Rather than using these materials as cheap commoditie...
First of its kind experiment uses diamond anvils to simulate the Earth's core
Apr 16, 2020 (SPX)
They achieved this with use of a highly specialized diamond anvil which compresses samples, and sophisticated X-ray measurements. Their findings confirm the mol...
UCI-led team designs carbon nanostructure stronger than diamonds
Apr 16, 2020 (SPX)
In a recent study in Nature Communications, the scientists report success in conceptualizing and fabricating the material, which consists of closely connected, ...
On Mars or Earth, biohybrid can turn carbon dioxide into new products
Apr 01, 2020 (SPX)
University of California, Berkeley, and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) chemists have a plan for that. For the past eight years, the resear...
Closing the carbon cycle to stop climate change
Mar 19, 2020 (SPX)
Thus, CO2 conversion to methane using renewable hydrogen has the great potential to provide a solution to these two problems of excessive CO2 levels, and the te...
Natural solutions to excess carbon is in part totally down to Earth
Mar 18, 2020 (SPX)
Representing the first time soil's total global potential for carbon-mitigation across forests, wetlands, agriculture and grasslands together has been catalogue...
Restore soil to absorb billions of tonnes of carbon: study
Mar 16, 2020 (AFP)
Last year the United Nations' Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change said that the world needed to work harder to retain the land's ability to absorb and sto...
How much does black carbon contribute to climate warming?
Mar 04, 2020 (SPX)
Published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the article provides a framework that reconciles model simulations with laboratory and empiric...
Stanford research maps a faster, easier way to build diamond
Feb 27, 2020 (SPX)
A new study from Stanford University and SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory reveals how, with careful tuning of heat and pressure, that recipe can produce dia...
Old carbon reservoirs unlikely to cause massive greenhouse gas release
Feb 24, 2020 (SPX)
Researchers at the University of Rochester - including Michael Dyonisius, a graduate student in the lab of Vasilii Petrenko, professor of earth and environmenta...
Simulations identify missing link to determine carbon in deep Earth reservoirs
Feb 14, 2020 (SPX)
But scientists don't yet understand how much carbon lies deep in the Earth's water reservoirs - for example, in water that is under extreme pressure in the mant...
Graphene forms under microscope's eye
Feb 14, 2020 (SPX)
The labs of Rice chemist James Tour, which discovered the original method to turn a common polymer into graphene in 2014, and Tennessee/ORNL materials scientist...
Scientists show solar system processes control the carbon cycle throughout Earth's history
Feb 11, 2020 (SPX)
However, new research publishing this week in leading international journal PNAS, sheds fresh light on the complicated interplay of factors affecting global cli...
'Reverse fuel cell' converts waste carbon to valuable products at record rates
Feb 11, 2020 (SPX)
"For decades, talented researchers have been developing systems that convert electricity into hydrogen and back again," says Professor Ted Sargent, one of the s...
Bending diamond at the nanoscale
Feb 07, 2020 (SPX)
The discovery opens up a range of possibilities for the design and engineering of new nanoscale devices in sensing, defence and energy storage but also shows th...
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