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Magnetic fields and lasers elicit graphene secret
Nov 25, 2014 (SPX)
Scientists at the Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf (HZDR) have studied the dynamics of electrons from the "wonder material" graphene in a magnetic field for...
Scientists X-ray tiny cell organelles responsible for carbon fixation
Nov 18, 2014 (SPX)
An international team of scientists led by Uppsala University has developed a high-throughput method of imaging biological particles using an X-ray laser. The i...
Warmer Soil Will Expel Less Carbon To Atmosphere Than Modeled
Nov 18, 2014 (SPX)
Here's another reason to pay close attention to microbes: Current climate models probably overestimate the amount of carbon that will be released from soil into...
The Ocean's Living Carbon Pumps
Oct 23, 2014 (SPX)
When we talk about global carbon fixation -"pumping" carbon out of the atmosphere and fixing it into organic molecules by photosynthesis - proper measurement is...
A cost-effective and energy-efficient approach to carbon capture
Oct 11, 2014 (SPX)
Carbon capture is a process by which waste carbon dioxide (CO2) released by factories and power plants is collected and stored away, in order to reduce global c...
Norway sets 2020 goal for pilot CCS development
Oct 09, 2014 (UPI)
The Norwegian government said its fight to reduce greenhouse gas emissions includes plans for a carbon capture and storage project by 2020. Norwegian Energy Min...
Record $17.8 mn for fancy vivid pink diamond at HK auction
Oct 07, 2014 (AFP)
A flawless fancy vivid pink diamond sold for a record US$17.7 million in Hong Kong late Tuesday, Sotheby's said. The auction house said the internally flawless ...
Crumpled graphene could provide an unconventional energy storage
Oct 07, 2014 (SPX)
When someone crumples a sheet of paper, that usually means it's about to be thrown away. But researchers have now found that crumpling a piece of graphene "pape...
Southampton scientists grow a new challenger to graphene
Sep 29, 2014 (SPX)
A team of researchers from the University of Southampton's Optoelectronics Research Centre (ORC) has developed a new way to fabricate a potential challenger to ...
Graphene imperfections key to creating hypersensitive 'electronic nose'
Sep 26, 2014 (SPX)
Researchers have discovered a way to create a highly sensitive chemical sensor based on the crystalline flaws in graphene sheets. The imperfections have unique ...
Moving silicon atoms in graphene with atomic precision
Sep 18, 2014 (SPX)
Richard Feynman famously posed the question in 1959: is it possible to see and manipulate individual atoms in materials? For a time his vision seemed more scien...
De Beers warns diamonds aren't forever
Sep 17, 2014 (AFP)
The De Beers diamond cartel warned Wednesday that global production will decline from 2020, a trend that could spell pricier bling for consumers. A dearth of ma...
Graphene paints a corrosion-free future
Sep 15, 2014 (SPX)
The surface of graphene, a one atom thick sheet of carbon, can be randomly decorated with oxygen to create graphene oxide; a form of graphene that could have a ...
Penn Engineers Advance Understanding of Graphene's Friction Properties
Sep 12, 2014 (SPX)
An interdisciplinary team of engineers from the University of Pennsylvania has made a discovery regarding the surface properties of graphene, the Nobel-prize wi...
Molecular self-assembly controls graphene-edge configuration
Sep 12, 2014 (SPX)
A research team headed by Prof. Patrick Han and Prof. Taro Hitosugi at the Advanced Institute of Materials Research (AIMR), Tohoku University discovered a new b...
Buckyballs and diamondoids join forces in tiny electronic gadget
Sep 11, 2014 (SPX)
Scientists have married two unconventional forms of carbon - one shaped like a soccer ball, the other a tiny diamond - to make a molecule that conducts electric...
'Alarm bells' as greenhouse gases hit new high: UN
Sep 09, 2014 (AFP)
Surging carbon dioxide levels boosted greenhouse gases in the atmosphere to a new high in 2013, amid worrying signs that absorption by land and sea is waning, t...
Nanodiamonds Are Forever
Sep 01, 2014 (SPX)
Most of North America's megafauna - mastodons, short-faced bears, giant ground sloths, saber-toothed cats and American camels and horses - disappeared close to ...
Breaking benzene
Sep 01, 2014 (SPX)
Aromatic compounds are found widely in natural resources such as petroleum and biomass, and breaking the carbon?carbon bonds in these compounds plays an importa...
Competition for Graphene
Aug 28, 2014 (SPX)
A new argument has just been added to the growing case for graphene being bumped off its pedestal as the next big thing in the high-tech world by the two-dimens...
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