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Method of tracking reactions between air and carbon-based compounds established

Mar 01, 2018 (SPX)

Gabriel Isaacman-VanWertz, lead scientist on a new study published in Nature Chemistry and assistant professor in Virginia Tech's department of civil and enviro...

Contacting the molecular world through graphene nanoribbons

Feb 27, 2018 (SPX)

And one of the most recent steps forward is appearing today on peer-reviewed journal Science Advances, as a result of a new collaboration between physicists fro...

In a first, tiny diamond anvils trigger chemical reactions by squeezing

Feb 26, 2018 (SPX)

The research was led by scientists from the Department of Energy's SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory and Stanford University, who reported their findings in ...

Singapore to impose carbon tax from 2019

Feb 19, 2018 (AFP)

Finance Minister Heng Swee Keat said the tax would be levied on all facilities producing 25,000 tonnes or more of greenhouse gas emissions a year. The tax, to b...

Graphene on toast, anyone?

Feb 14, 2018 (SPX)

The Rice lab of chemist James Tour, which once turned Girl Scout cookies into graphene, is investigating ways to write graphene patterns onto food and other mat...

Diamonds show promise for spintronic devices

Feb 13, 2018 (SPX)

In a paper published in Applied Physics Letters, from AIP Publishing, researchers measured how strongly a charge carrier's spin interacts with a magnetic field ...

'Zipping-up' rings to make nanographenes

Feb 13, 2018 (SPX)

Nagoya, Japan - A group of chemists of the JST-ERATO Itami Molecular Nanocarbon Project and the Institute of Transformative Bio-Molecules (ITbM) of Nagoya Unive...

Water-soluble warped nanographene

Feb 13, 2018 (SPX)

Nanographene has the hexagonal carbon lattice of graphene but consists of only a few carbon rings with tunable electronic properties. One of its big issues hamp...

UV laser photolyses to enhance diamond growth

Feb 05, 2018 (SPX)

The practical reasons for seeking such a control ranging from suppressing unwanted side products to synthesizing new material structures. With the significant a...

Interstellar fullerenes may help find solutions for Earthly matters

Feb 05, 2018 (SPX)

Fullerenes are very potent antioxidants and are used in antiviral medications. In particular, fullerenes with anti-HIV properties have also been discovered. Apa...

New fuel cell technology runs on solid carbon

Feb 03, 2018 (SPX)

The fuel cell design incorporates innovations in three components: the anode, the electrolyte and the fuel. Together, these advancements allow the fuel cell to ...

Carbon nanotubes devices may have a limit to how 'nano' they can be

Jan 26, 2018 (SPX)

ESRI Director Andrew Barron, also a professor at Rice University in the USA, and his team have figured out how to get nanotubes clean enough to obtain reproduci...

Using crumpled graphene balls to make better batteries

Jan 23, 2018 (SPX)

"In current batteries, lithium is usually atomically distributed in another material such as graphite or silicon in the anode," explains Northwestern University...

White graphene makes ceramics multifunctional

Jan 15, 2018 (SPX)

Rouzbeh Shahsavari, an assistant professor of civil and environmental engineering, suggested the incorporation of ultrathin hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) sheets...

Earthquakes as a driver for the deep-ocean carbon cycle

Jan 11, 2018 (SPX)

At a depth of 7,542 metres below sea level, the team took a core sample from the Japan Trench, an 800-km-long oceanic trench in the northwestern part of the Pac...

A biological solution to carbon capture and recycling?

Jan 09, 2018 (SPX)

Cutting carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions to slow down and even reverse global warming has been posited as humankind's greatest challenge. It is a goal that is sub...

Electronically-smooth '3-D graphene': A bright future for trisodium bismuthide

Jan 03, 2018 (SPX)

Na3Bi is a Topological Dirac Semimetal (TDS), considered a 3D equivalent of graphene in that it shows the same extraordinarily high electron mobility. In graphe...

Mixing state of black carbon from biomass burning differs in different combustion phase

Jan 03, 2018 (SPX)

In northern China, open biomass burning (OBB), such as straw burning after harvesting, is one of important sources of refractory black carbon (rBC). OBB emits b...

New technique could make captured carbon more valuable

Dec 18, 2017 (SPX)

Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's Idaho National Laboratory have developed an efficient process for turning captured carbon dioxide into syngas, a m...

UCLA chemists synthesize narrow ribbons of graphene using only light and heat

Dec 18, 2017 (SPX)

Now, UCLA chemists have developed a new method to produce nanoribbons of graphene, next-generation structures that many scientists believe will one day power el...