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UNIST researchers engineer transformer-like carbon nanostructure
Jun 16, 2017 (SPX)
In the study, the joint research team, led by Professor Byung Soo kim and Professor Oh Hoon Kwon has presented a unique design and synthesis of hybrid carbon na...
Graphene encapsulation provides unprecedented view of the diffusion and rotation of fullerene molecules
Jun 16, 2017 (SPX)
For this reason, carbon materials have had a special place in materials research for a long time. Although the three-dimensional forms of carbon - diamond and g...
New chemical method could revolutionize graphene
Jun 16, 2017 (SPX)
Graphene, a lightweight, thin, flexible material, can be used to enhance the strength and speed of computer display screens, electric/photonics circuits, solar ...
Researchers find a surprise just beneath the surface in carbon dioxide experiment
Jun 16, 2017 (SPX)
An X-ray technique at the Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab), coupled with theoretical work by a team at the California...
New carbon nitride material coupled with ruthenium enhances visible-light CO2 reduction in water
Jun 16, 2017 (SPX)
Following seminal work by Nobel laureate Jean-Marie Lehn and others in the 1980s, photocatalysts - materials that convert light to energy - have been increasing...
Seeing electrons surfing the waves of light on graphene
Jun 12, 2017 (SPX)
The experiments were performed with ultra-high quality graphene. To excite and image the ultra-slow ripples of light in the graphene (also called plasmons), the...
Graphene enhancing our vision of the infinitely small
Jun 12, 2017 (SPX)
Through the development of this one-of-a-kind microscope, OIST researchers reported such a crucial step in the journal Microscopy using atom-thin layers of grap...
Revolutionary new materials for troubled carbon times: Super filters the world can afford
Jun 08, 2017 (SPX)
More than 4000 years later, in a study published in Nature Energy this month, researchers from Kyoto University's Institute for Integrated Cell-Material Science...
Searching beyond graphene for new wonder materials
Jun 01, 2017 (SPX)
Mitch Jacoby, a senior correspondent at C and EN, notes that most 2-D materials have certain features in common: They tend to be flexible, transparent, and can ...
New method of characterizing graphene
May 31, 2017 (SPX)
Graphene consists of a single layer of carbon atoms. It is transparent, harder than diamond and stronger than steel, yet flexible, and a significantly better co...
BESSY 2 experiment shows 3D graphene properties are tuneable
May 30, 2017 (SPX)
Andre Geim and Konstantin Novoselov received the 2010 Nobel Prize in Physics for the discovery of this exotic form of carbon. And just recently, a Japanese team...
Laser-induced graphene kills bacteria, resists biofouling
May 26, 2017 (SPX)
LIG is a spongy version of graphene, the single-atom layer of carbon atoms. The Rice lab of chemist James Tour developed it three years ago by burning partway t...
Gas gives laser-induced graphene super properties
May 18, 2017 (SPX)
Until recently, the Rice lab of James Tour made LIG only in open air, using a laser to burn part of the way through a flexible polyimide sheet to get interconne...
Energy decay in graphene resonators
May 18, 2017 (SPX)
In a vibrating system, the energy dissipation is quantified by the quality factor. If the quality factor of the resonator is high, the mechanical energy will di...
Chemically tailored graphene
May 16, 2017 (SPX)
Additionally, the electrical conductivity can be continuously varied between a metal and a semiconductor by, e.g., inserting chemically bound atoms and molecule...
Looking at light to explore superconductivity in boron-diamond films
May 16, 2017 (SPX)
With this interest, a research group in India focused on a Fano resonance in a heavily boron-doped diamond (BDD) that involves the vibrational mode of diamond. ...
Beautiful, consistent carbon belts
May 14, 2017 (SPX)
The new nanobelt, measuring 0.83 nanometer (nm) in diameter, was developed by researchers at Nagoya University's JST-ERATO Itami Molecular Nanocarbon Project, a...
Deep-diving technology finds little filter feeder has giant carbon cycling impact
May 04, 2017 (SPX)
The technology may also be used for more accurate measurements of carbon removal by other deep-water organisms, an essential parameter for modeling oceanic ecos...
Shunned by microbes, organic carbon can resist breakdown in underground environments
May 02, 2017 (SPX)
In a new study, Stanford scientists have uncovered a previously unknown mechanism that explains why microbes sometimes fail to break down all the plant and anim...
Graphene withstands high pressure, may aid in desalination
Apr 27, 2017 (SPX)
A member of the Microcirculatory Society since 1990, Dr. Ley will present his Landis Award Lecture on Leukocyte Integrin Activation on April 23, 2017, during th...
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