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Stanford scientists probe abandoned mine for clues about permanent CO2 sequestration
Dec 12, 2013 (SPX)
An abandoned mineral mine near Stanford University is providing geoscientists new insights on how to permanently entomb greenhouse gas emissions in the Earth. F...
Graphene: Growing giants
Dec 12, 2013 (SPX)
To technology insiders, graphene is a certified big deal. The one-atom thick carbon-based material elicits rhapsodic descriptions as the strongest, thinnest mat...
An Inside Look at a MOF in Action
Nov 28, 2013 (SPX)
A unique inside look at the electronic structure of a highly touted metal-organic framework (MOF) as it is adsorbing carbon dioxide gas should help in the desig...
Infrared vision lets researchers see through - and into - multiple layers of graphene
Nov 28, 2013 (SPX)
It's not X-ray vision, but you could call it infrared vision. A University at Buffalo-led research team has developed a technique for "seeing through" a stack o...
Researchers grow large graphene crystals with exceptional electrical properties
Nov 18, 2013 (SPX)
When it comes to the growth of graphene - an ultrathin, ultrastrong, all-carbon material - it is survival of the fittest, according to researchers at The Univer...
Australia PM moves to repeal climate tax
Nov 13, 2013 (AFP)
Australia's new conservative prime minister, Tony Abbott, moved Wednesday to abolish a carbon tax designed to combat climate change as his first major economic ...
Safe long term storage of CO2 is possible
Nov 11, 2013 (SPX)
At the final conference of the EU project CO2CARE - CO2 Site Closure Assessment Research - at the GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences from 04 to 06 Novem...
Three-dimensional carbon goes metallic
Nov 09, 2013 (SPX)
A theoretical, three-dimensional (3D) form of carbon that is metallic under ambient temperature and pressure has been discovered by an international research te...
Re-using rather than emitting CO2 seen as viable commercial practice
Nov 06, 2013 (UPI)
Reusing greenhouse gas carbon dioxide from industrial plants to create new products is on the verge of becoming a commercial reality, a U.S. journal reports. Se...
New techniques produce cleanest graphene yet
Nov 05, 2013 (SPX)
Columbia Engineering researchers have experimentally demonstrated for the first time that it is possible to electrically contact an atomically thin two-dimensio...
Making Nanodiamonds In Ambient Conditions
Oct 23, 2013 (SPX)
Instead of having to use tons of crushing force and volcanic heat to forge diamonds, researchers at Case Western Reserve University have developed a way to chea...
Defining the graphene family tree
Oct 18, 2013 (SPX)
There has been an intense research interest in all two-dimensional (2D) forms of carbon since Geim and Novoselov's discovery of graphene in 2004. But as the num...
An optical switch based on a single nano-diamond
Oct 18, 2013 (SPX)
A recent study led by researchers of the ICFO (Institute of Photonic Sciences) demonstrates that a single nano-diamond can be operated as an ultrafast single-em...
Cosmic impact creates Sahara diamond field
Oct 15, 2013 (Voice of Russia)
In the upcoming issue of 'Earth and Planetary Science Letters', South African scientists are to present new evidence of a major impact event which took place so...
Carbon's new champion
Oct 15, 2013 (SPX)
Carbyne will be the strongest of a new class of microscopic materials if and when anyone can make it in bulk. If they do, they'll find carbyne nanorods or nanor...
Flawed diamonds: Gems for new technology
Oct 15, 2013 (SPX)
A team of researchers led by University of Arizona assistant professor Vanessa Huxter has made the first detailed observation of how energy travels through diam...
Direct 'writing' of artificial cell membranes on graphene
Oct 15, 2013 (SPX)
Writing in Nature Communications, researchers at The University of Manchester led by Dr Aravind Vijayaraghavan, and Dr Michael Hirtz at the Karlsruhe Institute ...
'White graphene' halts rust in high temps
Oct 15, 2013 (SPX)
Atomically thin sheets of hexagonal boron nitride (h-BN) have the handy benefit of protecting what's underneath from oxidizing even at very high temperatures, R...
Mix of graphene nanoribbons, polymer has potential for cars, soda, beer
Oct 15, 2013 (SPX)
A discovery at Rice University aims to make vehicles that run on compressed natural gas more practical. It might also prolong the shelf life of bottled beer and...
Diamonds may be raining down on Jupiter, Saturn
Oct 14, 2013 (UPI)
Diamonds, big enough to grace a necklace or bracelet, may be raining down in the atmospheres of Saturn and Jupiter, U.S. scientists say. Carbon in its dazzling ...
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