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Graphene membrane could lead to better fuel cells, water filters
Mar 18, 2015 (SPX)
An atomically thin membrane with microscopically small holes may prove to be the basis for future hydrogen fuel cells, water filtering and desalination membrane...
A better way of scrubbing CO2
Mar 18, 2015 (SPX)
A means by which the removal of carbon dioxide (CO2) from coal-fired power plants might one day be done far more efficiently and at far lower costs than today h...
Graphene discovery opens possibilities for improved energy technologies
Mar 18, 2015 (SPX)
Graphene, a strong, lightweight carbon honeycombed structure that's only one atom thick, holds great promise for energy research and development. Recently scien...
Symmetry matters in graphene growth
Mar 18, 2015 (SPX)
What lies beneath growing islands of graphene is important to its properties, according to a new study led by Rice University. Scientists at Rice analyzed patte...
Graphene meets heat waves
Mar 13, 2015 (SPX)
In the race to miniaturize electronic components, researchers are challenged with a major problem: the smaller or the faster your device, the more challenging i...
Global CO2 emissions stall despite economic growth: IEA
Mar 13, 2015 (AFP)
Global carbon dioxide emissions from the energy sector stalled in 2014, the first time in 40 years during a period of economic growth, the International Energy ...
New material captures carbon at half the energy cost
Mar 12, 2015 (SPX)
UC Berkeley chemists have made a major leap forward in carbon-capture technology with a material that can efficiently remove carbon from the ambient air of a su...
Novel crumpling method takes flat graphene from 2-D to 3-D
Feb 19, 2015 (SPX)
Researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign have developed a unique single-step process to achieve three-dimensional (3D) texturing of graphen...
Buckyballs offer environmental benefits
Feb 10, 2015 (SPX)
Treated buckyballs not only remove valuable but potentially toxic metal particles from water and other liquids, but also reserve them for future use, according ...
Carbon nanoballs can greatly contribute to sustainable energy supply
Jan 28, 2015 (SPX)
Researchers at Chalmers University of Technology have discovered that the insulation plastic used in high-voltage cables can withstand a 26 per cent higher volt...
Researchers make magnetic graphene
Jan 28, 2015 (SPX)
Graphene, a one-atom thick sheet of carbon atoms arranged in a hexagonal lattice, has many desirable properties. Magnetism alas is not one of them. Magnetism ca...
Sequestration on shaky ground
Jan 26, 2015 (SPX)
Carbon sequestration promises to address greenhouse-gas emissions by capturing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and injecting it deep below the Earth's surfac...
Graphene plasmons go ballistic
Jan 13, 2015 (SPX)
Squeezing light into tiny circuits and controlling its flow electrically is a holy grail that has become a realistic scenario thanks to the discovery of graphen...
Cheap asphalt provides 'green' carbon capture
Jan 08, 2015 (SPX)
The best material to keep carbon dioxide from natural gas wells from fouling the atmosphere may be a derivative of asphalt, according to Rice University scienti...
Scientists befuddled by rock containing 30,000 diamonds
Dec 18, 2014 (UPI)
Scientists aren't sure how a small rock packed with more than 30,000 tiny diamonds came to be. The chunk of diamond ore was discovered in Russia's massive Udach...
Turning hydrogen into graphene
Dec 17, 2014 (SPX)
New work from Carnegie's Ivan Naumov and Russell Hemley delves into the chemistry underlying some surprising recent observations about hydrogen, and reveals rem...
Major milestones for Carnegie-hosted Deep Carbon Observatory
Dec 16, 2014 (SPX)
Recent advances in our understanding of the quantities, movements, forms and origin of carbon in Earth are summarized in a just-published report. The research r...
Buckyballs enhance carbon capture
Dec 05, 2014 (SPX)
Rice University scientists have discovered an environmentally friendly carbon-capture method that could be equally adept at drawing carbon dioxide emissions fro...
Microbullet hits confirm graphene's strength
Dec 02, 2014 (SPX)
Graphene's great strength appears to be determined by how well it stretches before it breaks, according to Rice University scientists who tested the material's ...
Super material has chink in its armour: study
Nov 26, 2014 (AFP)
Scientists said Wednesday they had found a chink in the impermeable armour of graphene, the world's thinnest material, and one of the strongest. The team said t...
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