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Canadian firm opens facility to pull carbon from air
Oct 10, 2015 (AFP)
A company with global plans to pull carbon from thin air to make fuel, while tackling climate change, opened a pilot plant Friday in this remote western Canadia...
Physicists map the strain, pixel by pixel, in wonder material graphene
Oct 02, 2015 (SPX)
This week, an international group of scientists is reporting a breakthrough in the effort to characterize the properties of graphene noninvasively while acquiri...
Tiny carbon-capturing motors may help tackle rising carbon dioxide levels
Sep 25, 2015 (SPX)
Machines that are much smaller than the width of a human hair could one day help clean up carbon dioxide pollution in the oceans. Nanoengineers at the Universit...
Revived oceanic CO2 uptake
Sep 15, 2015 (SPX)
Breathe in, breathe out, in, out... Like a giant lung, the Southern Ocean seasonally absorbs vast amounts of carbon dioxide (CO2) from the atmosphere and releas...
North Sea carbon storage scheme gets support
Sep 14, 2015 (UPI)
The British government said Monday it was ready to sign off on a North Sea carbon capture and storage program for a Scottish power station. Royal Dutch Shell is...
First superconducting graphene created by UBC researchers
Sep 09, 2015 (SPX)
Graphene, the ultra-thin, ultra-strong material made from a single layer of carbon atoms, just got a little more extreme. University of British Columbia (UBC) p...
Successful boron-doping of graphene nanoribbon
Aug 31, 2015 (SPX)
Physicists at the University of Basel succeed in synthesizing boron-doped graphene nanoribbons and characterizing their structural, electronic and chemical prop...
Soaking up carbon dioxide and turning it into valuable products
Aug 31, 2015 (SPX)
A molecular system that holds great promise for the capture and storage of carbon dioxide has been modified so that it now also holds great promise as a catalys...
Graphene oxide's secret properties revealed at atomic level
Aug 25, 2015 (SPX)
Since its discovery, graphene has captured the attention of scientists and engineers for its many extraordinary properties. But graphene oxide - an oxidized der...
Research underway on graphene-based camoflage
Aug 10, 2015 (UPI)
Saab AB reports it is researching the possible use of graphene in camouflage. Graphene, a sheet of latticed carbon just one atom thick, is a million times thinn...
River buries permafrost carbon at sea
Aug 07, 2015 (SPX)
As temperatures rise, some of the organic carbon stored in Arctic permafrost meets an unexpected fate--burial at sea. As many as 2.2 million metric tons of orga...
More efficient process to produce graphene developed
Jul 28, 2015 (SPX)
Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU) and University of Western Australia researchers have developed a new process to develop few-layer graphene for use in e...
Graphene electrons share the heat
Jul 20, 2015 (SPX)
Graphene - a one-atom-thick sheet of carbon atoms - is known to be a very good electrical conductor. Therefore, a multitude of applications in modern nano-elect...
Heat buckyballs to help environment
Jul 14, 2015 (SPX)
Rice University scientists are forging toward tunable carbon-capture materials with a new study that shows how chemical changes affect the abilities of enhanced...
Graphene-based sensor that is tunable and highly sensitive
Jul 10, 2015 (SPX)
Many areas of fundamental research are interested in graphene owing to its exceptional characteristics. It is made of one layer of carbon atoms, which makes it ...
Graphene gets competition
Jul 10, 2015 (SPX)
Graphene, the only one atom thick carbon network, achieved overnight fame with the 2010 Nobel Prize. But now comes competition: Such layers can also be formed b...
Towards graphene biosensors
Jun 28, 2015 (SPX)
Pure carbon occurs in many forms. Besides the classical configurations found in diamonds, graphite, and coal, there are other younger exotic cousins such as gra...
Robust new process forms 3-D shapes from flat sheets of graphene
Jun 28, 2015 (SPX)
Researchers from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign have developed a new approach for forming 3D shapes from flat, 2D sheets of graphene, paving the...
New technology could spur 'a graphene-driven industrial revolution'
Jun 25, 2015 (UPI)
Scientists at the University of Exeter say they've developed a way to make graphene better, cheaper, faster -- and at mass scale. Lead researcher Monica Craciun...
Diamonds are for temperature
Jun 22, 2015 (SPX)
Researchers have developed tiny, diamond-based probes that optically transmit detailed temperature information and can operate in conditions ranging from 150 to...
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