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Graphene photodetectors: Thinking outside the 2-D box
Jul 19, 2016 (SPX)
In a recent work published in Nature Communications, the research group led by ICREA Professor at ICFO Frank Koppens demonstrate a novel way to detect low-energ...
A full-filling approach to making nanotubes of consistent quality
Jul 19, 2016 (SPX)
Just as many of us might be resigned to clogged salt shakers or rush-hour traffic, those working to exploit the special properties of carbon nanotubes have typi...
Germs add ripples to make 'groovy' graphene
Jul 13, 2016 (SPX)
Graphene, a two-dimensional wonder-material composed of a single layer of carbon atoms linked in a hexagonal chicken-wire pattern, has attracted intense interes...
Researchers demonstrate tunable wetting and adhesion of graphene
Jul 11, 2016 (SPX)
Researchers from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign have demonstrated doping-induced tunable wetting and adhesion of graphene, revealing new and uni...
Integrated 2-D nanomaterials unlocks graphene electronics applications
Jul 07, 2016 (SPX)
Graphene has emerged as one of the most promising two-dimensional crystals, but the future of electronics may include two other nanomaterials, according to a ne...
York chemists lead breakthrough in carbon capture
Jul 07, 2016 (SPX)
Starbons, made from waste biomass including food peelings and seaweed, were discovered and first reported 10 years ago by the York Green Chemistry Centre of Exc...
Crucial peatlands carbon-sink vulnerable to rising sea levels
Jul 06, 2016 (SPX)
Crucial peatlands carbon-sink vulnerable to rising sea levels, research shows. Rising sea-levels linked to global warming could pose a significant threat to the...
Chemists unveil cheaper, more efficient carbon capture technology
Jul 04, 2016 (UPI)
A team of scientists in England have found a better way to capture carbon from power plant emissions. The key to their new and improved technique is patented ca...
Diamond-based resonators might become highly sensitive detectors
Jun 24, 2016 (SPX)
Physicists from the Technological Institute for Superhard and Novel Carbon Materials, the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, and the Siberian Federal U...
A new form of hybrid photodetectors with quantum dots and graphene
Jun 22, 2016 (SPX)
The development of photodetectors has been a matter of considerable interest in the past decades since their applications are essential to many different fields...
Drum beats from a one atom thick graphite membrane
Jun 17, 2016 (SPX)
Researchers from the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai, have demonstrated the ability to manipulate the vibrations of a drum of nanometre scale thi...
Weird, water-oozing material could help quench thirst
Jun 16, 2016 (SPX)
After their nanorods were accidentally created when an experiment didn't go as planned, the researchers gave the microscopic, unplanned spawns of science a clos...
In a first, Iceland power plant turns carbon emissions to stone
Jun 10, 2016 (SPX)
Scientists and engineers working at a major power plant in Iceland have shown for the first time that carbon dioxide emissions can be pumped into the earth and ...
Tiny diamonds could enable huge advances in nanotechnology
Jun 10, 2016 (SPX)
Nanomaterials have the potential to improve many next-generation technologies. They promise to speed up computer chips, increase the resolution of medical imagi...
Climate change mitigation: Turning CO2 into rock
Jun 10, 2016 (SPX)
An international team of scientists have found a potentially viable way to remove anthropogenic (caused or influenced by humans) carbon dioxide emissions from t...
Graphene-based transparent electrodes for highly efficient flexible OLEDS
Jun 07, 2016 (SPX)
The arrival of a thin and lightweight computer that even rolls up like a piece of paper will not be in the far distant future. Flexible organic light-emitting d...
Diamonds closer to becoming ideal semiconductors
May 27, 2016 (SPX)
Along with being a "girl's best friend," diamonds also have remarkable properties that could make them ideal semiconductors. This is welcome news for electronic...
Graphene makes rubber more rubbery
May 25, 2016 (SPX)
In an article published in Carbon, Dr Aravind Vijayaraghavan and Dr Maria Iliut from Manchester have shown that adding a very small amount of graphene, the worl...
Graphene: A quantum of current
May 24, 2016 (SPX)
In 2010 the Nobel Prize in physics was awarded for the discovery of the exceptional material graphene, which consists of a single layer of carbon atoms arranged...
Researchers demonstrate size quantization of Dirac fermions in graphene
May 24, 2016 (SPX)
Quantum mechanics is the field of physics governing the behavior of things on atomic scales, where things work very differently from our everyday world. One of ...
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