CARBON WORLDS - NANO DAILY

Biologically inspired membrane purges coal-fired smoke of greenhouse gases

Apr 17, 2018 (SPX)

The patented work, reported recently in Nature Communications , has interested power and energy companies that would like to significantly and inexpensively red...

Study details meteorite diamonds from a lost planet

Apr 17, 2018 (UPI)

In 2008, an asteroid measuring 13 feet across penetrated Earth's atmosphere and exploded above Sudan, scattering rocky fragments across the Nubian Desert. The f...

First global CO2 maps published using China's TanSat data

Apr 16, 2018 (UPI)

The maps, published in the journal Advances in Atmospheric Sciences, are powered by TanSat observations made between April and July 2017. Researchers expect the...

One-fifth of carbon entering coastal waters of eastern North America is buried

Apr 13, 2018 (SPX)

The team, led by Raymond Najjar, professor of oceanography in Penn State's College of Earth and Mineral Sciences, constructed the first known carbon budget of t...

Trap, contain and convert

Apr 06, 2018 (SPX)

Environmental scientists trying to mitigate the effects of CO2 have experimented with injecting it deep underground, where it becomes trapped. These trials have...

Rapid emissions reductions would keep CO2 removal and costs in check

Apr 05, 2018 (SPX)

To this end, emissions in 2030 would need to be at least 20 percent below what countries have pledged under the Paris climate agreement, a new study finds - an ...

Once we can capture CO2 emissions, here's what we could do with it

Apr 05, 2018 (SPX)

"Similar to how a plant takes carbon dioxide, sunlight, and water to make sugars for itself, we are interested in using technology to take energy from the sun o...

Twisting graphene into spirals

Apr 04, 2018 (SPX)

Researchers from Kyoto University and Osaka University report for the first time in the Journal of the American Chemical Society the successful synthesis of hex...

For graphite pellets, just add elbow grease

Mar 27, 2018 (SPX)

A report in Carbon shows how chemically altered graphene powder can be pressed into a lightweight, semiporous solid that retains many of the strong and conducti...

Graphene oxide nanosheets could help bring lithium-metal batteries to market

Mar 21, 2018 (SPX)

Now, researchers at the University of Illinois at Chicago have developed a solution to this problem in the form of a graphene-oxide coated 'nanosheet' that, whe...

Graphene finds new application as non-toxic, anti-static hair dye

Mar 21, 2018 (SPX)

Now a Northwestern University team has used materials science to solve this age-old problem. The team has leveraged super material graphene to develop a new hai...

Ultrashort laser pulses make greenhouse gas reactive

Mar 20, 2018 (SPX)

Physico-chemists at the University of Bonn are in the process of making significant contributions to this vision. They have discovered a new way to create a hig...

New record set for carbon-carbon single bond length

Mar 19, 2018 (SPX)

Hokkaido University researchers have synthesized an organic compound with a longer bond between carbon atoms than ever before - exceeding the assumed limit for ...

Unique diamond impurities indicate water deep in Earth's mantle

Mar 13, 2018 (SPX)

Groundbreaking research by UNLV geoscientist Oliver Tschauner and colleagues found diamonds pushed up from the Earth's interior had traces of unique crystallize...

Diamond discovery under pressure

Mar 12, 2018 (SPX)

"The only possible way of preserving this mineral at the Earth's surface is when it's trapped in an unyielding container like a diamond," he explained. "Based o...

Enhanced weathering of rocks can help to suck CO2 out of the air - a little

Mar 08, 2018 (SPX)

"The Paris Agreement calls for a balance between anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions by sources and removals by sinks in the second half of our century to ke...

Converting CO2 into usable energy

Mar 06, 2018 (SPX)

Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory are part of a scientific collaboration that has identified a new electrocata...

Insulator or superconductor? Physicists find graphene is both

Mar 06, 2018 (SPX)

Now physicists at MIT and Harvard University have found the wonder material can exhibit even more curious electronic properties. In two papers published in Natu...

Durable wood carbon sponge could enable wearable sensors, pollutant treatment

Mar 06, 2018 (SPX)

The UMD engineers' wood carbon sponge overcomes several limiting factors of other lightweight, compressible carbon sponges because it is simpler, less expensive...

Researchers use recycled carbon fiber to improve permeable pavement

Mar 06, 2018 (SPX)

Unlike the impermeable pavement that is used for most roads and parking lots, pervious concrete allows rainwater to freely drain and seep into the ground undern...