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Making a transparent flexible material of silk and nanotubes
Oct 31, 2018 (SPX)
The study, "Promoting Helix-Rich Structure in Silk Fibroin Films through Molecular Interactions with Carbon Nanotubes and Selective Heating for Transparent Biod...
NASA looking to tiny technology for big payoffs
Oct 31, 2018 (SPX)
Carbon nanotubes consist of carbon atoms chemically bound in the shape of cylinders that are less than 1/80,000 the diameter of human hair. At that scale, carbo...
Deformation of nanotubes to control conductivity
Oct 24, 2018 (SPX)
This can potentially expand nanotubes' application into electronics and high-precision sensors such as microprocessors and high-precision detectors. The researc...
Mussel-inspired defect engineering enhances the mechanical strength of graphene fibers
Oct 24, 2018 (SPX)
This bio-inspired defect engineering is clearly distinguishable from previous attempts with insulating binders and proposes great potential for versatile applic...
Nanodiamonds as photocatalysts
Oct 19, 2018 (SPX)
However, the reaction, which is reminiscent of a partial process of photosynthesis, requires energy and catalysts. If we succeed in using this energy from sunli...
Exploring new spintronics device functionalities in graphene heterostructures
Oct 17, 2018 (SPX)
Spin-orbit coupling is at the heart of spintronics. Graphene's spin-orbit coupling and high electron mobility make it appealing for long spin coherence length a...
New model helps define optimal temperature and pressure to forge nanoscale diamonds
Oct 16, 2018 (SPX)
To overcome this hurdle, a pair of French researchers recently developed a procedure and a computer model that can simulate the highly variable conditions of ex...
Self-healing material can build itself from carbon in the air
Oct 12, 2018 (SPX)
The current version of the new material is a synthetic gel-like substance that performs a chemical process similar to the way plants incorporate carbon dioxide ...
'Carbon sink' Bhutan counts cost of plans for green future
Oct 10, 2018 (AFP)
The mountainous state, holding only its third election on October 18, absorbs three times more CO2 than it emits, thanks mainly to the lush forests covering 72 ...
Invasive plants can boost blue carbon storage
Oct 10, 2018 (SPX)
"We were aware of the effects of invasions on other facets of these habitats, but this was the first time we really delved into blue carbon storage," said Ian D...
Stepping toward a smaller carbon footprint
Oct 08, 2018 (SPX)
There is currently no economically or energy efficient way to collect CO2 from the atmosphere and use it to produce carbon-based chemicals, but researchers at t...
Graphene helps protect photocathodes for physics experiments
Sep 27, 2018 (SPX)
Photocathodes have one significant limitation, which is that they degrade when exposed to air. To prevent this, scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's (D...
US carbon-capture network could double global CO2 headed underground
Sep 26, 2018 (SPX)
The authors propose in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences a pipeline network that would transfer carbon dioxide waste from ethanol refineries i...
Researchers develop novel two-step CO2 conversion technology
Sep 26, 2018 (SPX)
The results of the team's study were published Monday, Aug. 20 in Nature Catalysis. The research team, consisting of Feng Jiao, associate professor of chemical ...
A key to climate stabilization could be buried deep in the mud
Sep 25, 2018 (SPX)
But a new study led by Florida State University offers some hope that Earth's carbon reservoirs might not be quite as vulnerable as experts predict. In a global...
Peatland carbon sinks at risk
Sep 14, 2018 (SPX)
The group investigated how peatlands - swamps and bogs with organic rich soils - have responded to climate variability between 850 BCE and 1850 CE. Associate Pr...
New research unravels the mysteries of deep soil carbon
Sep 14, 2018 (SPX)
The study, published in Soil Biology and Biochemistry, outlines the conditions that underlie whether deep soil acts as a source or a sink for carbon. The fate o...
Peatlands will store more carbon as planet warms
Sep 14, 2018 (SPX)
This effect - a so-called "negative feedback" where climate change causes effects which slow further climate change - will increase over the coming decades but ...
Superradiance: Quantum effect detected in tiny diamonds
Sep 05, 2018 (SPX)
Up until now, this phenomenon could only be studied with free atoms (and with the use of special symmetries). Now, at TU Wien (Vienna), it was measured in a sol...
Biodiversity can boost forest carbon storage, but less than other factors
Aug 29, 2018 (SPX)
By analyzing stores of carbon in temperate and boreal forests, researchers found that tree diversity does influence the amount of carbon stored in a given part ...
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