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Rice's carbon nanotube fibers outperform copper
Feb 19, 2014 (SPX)
On a pound-per-pound basis, carbon nanotube-based fibers invented at Rice University have greater capacity to carry electrical current than copper cables of the...
Graphene's love affair with water
Feb 17, 2014 (SPX)
Graphene has proven itself as a wonder material with a vast range of unique properties. Among the least-known marvels of graphene is its strange love affair wit...
Graphene 'sandwich' improves imaging of biomolecules
Feb 07, 2014 (SPX)
By sandwiching a biological molecule between sheets of graphene, researchers at the University of Illinois at Chicago have obtained atomic-level images of the m...
Diamond film possible without the pressure
Feb 07, 2014 (SPX)
Perfect sheets of diamond a few atoms thick appear to be possible even without the big squeeze that makes natural gems. Scientists have speculated about it and ...
Quasi-particle swap between graphene layers
Feb 07, 2014 (SPX)
Equations used to describe parallel worlds in particle physics can help study the behaviour of particles in parallel graphene layers Belgian scientists have use...
Cooling Microprocessors with Carbon Nanotubes
Feb 03, 2014 (SPX)
"Cool it!" That's a prime directive for microprocessor chips and a promising new solution to meeting this imperative is in the offing. Researchers with the U.S....
Ford, researchers to work on autonomous cars
Jan 22, 2014 (AFP)
Ford Motor Co. said Wednesday it was teaming up with researchers at two US universities to work on obstacles, technical and otherwise, to automated driving. "To...
Researchers 'detune' a molecule
Jan 20, 2014 (SPX)
The molecule in question is carbon-60, also known as the buckminsterfullerene and the buckyball, discovered at Rice in 1985. The scientists led by Rice physicis...
Natural 3D Counterpart to Graphene Discovered
Jan 20, 2014 (SPX)
The discovery of what is essentially a 3D version of graphene - the 2D sheets of carbon through which electrons race at many times the speed at which they move ...
Climate change: How does soil store CO2?
Jan 17, 2014 (SPX)
Global carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions continue to rise - in 2012 alone, 35.7 billion tons of this greenhouse gas entered the atmosphere*. Some of this CO2 is ab...
Fungi may determine the future of soil carbon
Jan 16, 2014 (SPX)
When scientists discuss global change, they often focus on the amount of carbon in the atmosphere and vegetation. But soil contains more carbon than air and pla...
Symbiotic fungi inhabiting plant roots have major impact on atmospheric carbon
Jan 13, 2014 (SPX)
Microscopic fungi that live in plants' roots play a major role in the storage and release of carbon from the soil into the atmosphere, according to a University...
Diamonds in Earth's oldest zircons are nothing but laboratory contamination
Dec 25, 2013 (SPX)
As is well known, the Earth is about 4.6 billion years old. No rocks exist, however, that are older than about 3.8 billion years. A sedimentary rock section in ...
UNIST research team opens graphene band-gap
Dec 22, 2013 (SPX)
Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST) announced a method for the mass production of boron/nitrogen co-doped graphene nanoplatelets, which l...
China's Yinren buys world's second biggest diamond bank
Dec 19, 2013 (AFP)
Belgian bank-insurer KBC said Thursday it has sold Antwerp Diamond Bank -- the world's second biggest such bank -- to Chinese group Yinren for an undisclosed su...
Carbon capture technology could be vital for climate targets
Dec 14, 2013 (SPX)
The future availability of carbon capture and storage (CCS) will be pivotal in reaching ambitious climate targets, according to a new comprehensive study of fut...
Storing carbon in the Arctic
Dec 12, 2013 (SPX)
For the past three decades, as the climate has warmed, the massive plates of sea ice in the Arctic Ocean have shrunk: In 2007, scientists observed nearly 50 per...
Industrial age helps some coastal regions capture carbon dioxide
Dec 12, 2013 (SPX)
Coastal portions of the world's oceans, once believed to be a source of carbon dioxide (CO2) to the atmosphere, are now thought to absorb as much as two-thirds ...
Coal yields plenty of graphene quantum dots
Dec 12, 2013 (SPX)
The prospect of turning coal into fluorescent particles may sound too good to be true, but the possibility exists, thanks to scientists at Rice University. The ...
Ocean crust pillow lavas could store many centuries of industrial CO2
Dec 12, 2013 (SPX)
Researchers from the University of Southampton have identified regions beneath the oceans where the igneous rocks of the upper ocean crust could safely store ve...
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