CARBON WORLDS - NANO DAILY

Sep 19, 2016 (SPX)

Our understanding of the global carbon cycle has been reshaped by KAUST researchers who have helped to reveal a major role for the abundance of seaweed growing ...

World's most powerful X-ray takes a 'sledgehammer' to molecules

Sep 15, 2016 (SPX)

The discovery, led by Associate Professor Brian Abbey at La Trobe in collaboration with Associate Professor Harry Quiney at the University of Melbourne, has bee...

Asphalt-based carbon-capture material advances

Sep 15, 2016 (SPX)

A Rice University laboratory has improved its method to turn plain asphalt into a porous material that can capture greenhouse gases from natural gas. In researc...

Diamonds are a millennial's best friend, say De Beers

Sep 14, 2016 (AFP)

Slower growth in China and economic turbulence in global markets has dented the diamond industry, but millennials are offering light at the end of tunnel, say D...

For first time, carbon nanotube transistors outperform silicon

Sep 06, 2016 (SPX)

For decades, scientists have tried to harness the unique properties of carbon nanotubes to create high-performance electronics that are faster or consume less p...

3-D graphene has promise for bio applications

Sep 06, 2016 (SPX)

Flakes of graphene welded together into solid materials may be suitable for bone implants, according to a study led by Rice University scientists. The Rice lab ...

Iowa State engineers treat printed graphene with lasers to enable paper electronics

Sep 05, 2016 (SPX)

The researchers in Jonathan Claussen's lab at Iowa State University (who like to call themselves nanoengineers) have been looking for ways to use graphene and i...

Rutgers engineers use microwaves to produce high-quality graphene

Sep 05, 2016 (SPX)

Rutgers University engineers have found a simple method for producing high-quality graphene that can be used in next-generation electronic and energy devices: b...

A new route to the scalable production of highly crystalline graphene films

Aug 29, 2016 (SPX)

Researchers discovered a procedure to restore defective graphene oxide structures that cause the material to display low carrier mobility. By applying a high-te...

'Artificial atom' created in graphene

Aug 23, 2016 (SPX)

In a tiny quantum prison, electrons behave quite differently as compared to their counterparts in free space. They can only occupy discrete energy levels, much ...

Map helps maximize carbon-capture material

Aug 23, 2016 (SPX)

A careful balance of the ingredients in carbon-capture materials would maximize the sequestration of greenhouse gases while simplifying the processing - or "swe...

Argonne discovery yields self-healing diamond-like carbon

Aug 09, 2016 (SPX)

Fans of Superman surely recall how the Man of Steel used immense heat and pressure generated by his bare hands to form a diamond out of a lump of coal. The trib...

Diamond-based light sources will lay a foundation for quantum communications of the future

Aug 09, 2016 (SPX)

Dmitry Fedyanin from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology and Mario Agio from the University of Siegen and LENS have predicted that artificial defects...

Cornell scientists convert carbon dioxide, create electricity

Aug 08, 2016 (SPX)

While the human race will always leave its carbon footprint on the Earth, it must continue to find ways to lessen the impact of its fossil fuel consumption. "Ca...

NASA's New CO2 Sounder Nearly Ready for Prime Time

Aug 05, 2016 (SPX)

After years of work, a team of NASA scientists and engineers is poised to realize a lifetime goal: building an instrument powerful and accurate enough to gather...

Scientists turn carbon dioxide back into fuel

Aug 04, 2016 (SPX)

As scientists and policymakers around the world try to combat the increasing rate of climate change, they have focused on the chief culprit: carbon dioxide. Pro...

Diamonds help generate new record for static pressures for study

Aug 04, 2016 (SPX)

Extraordinary things happen to ordinary materials when they are subjected to very high pressure and temperature. Sodium, a conductive metal in normal conditions...

Swapping substrates improves edges of graphene nanoribbons

Aug 04, 2016 (SPX)

It is now feasible to make a prized material for spintronic devices and semiconductors - monolayer graphene nanoribbons with zigzag edges. Miniscule ribbons of ...

Reducing carbon emissions using waste marble powder

Jul 28, 2016 (SPX)

The ongoing fraud investigation into the nearly $7 billion Mississippi clean coal plant has sparked debate on whether carbon capture is a viable technology. But...

Ultrasensitive sensor using N-doped graphene

Jul 27, 2016 (SPX)

A highly sensitive chemical sensor based on Raman spectroscopy and using nitrogen-doped graphene as a substrate was developed by an international team of resear...