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Carbon emissions in African savannas triple previous estimates
Aug 27, 2018 (SPX)
The findings highlight the extent to which humans are impacting one of the world's major ecosystems - the Miombo woodlands, which cover 2.5 million square kilom...
A novel graphene quantum dot structure takes the cake
Aug 24, 2018 (SPX)
This tiered "wedding cake," which appears in images that show the energy level structure of the electrons, experimentally confirms how electrons interact in a t...
A human enzyme can biodegrade graphene
Aug 24, 2018 (SPX)
Among other projects, the Graphene Flagship designs flexible biomedical electronic devices that will interface with the human body. Such applications require gr...
Scientists find way to make mineral which can remove CO2 from atmosphere
Aug 17, 2018 (SPX)
Scientists are already working to slow global warming by removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, but there are serious practical and economic limits on dev...
Long-sought carbon structure joins graphene, fullerene family
Aug 14, 2018 (SPX)
University of California, Berkeley, chemists have proved that three carbon structures recently created by scientists in South Korea and Japan are in fact the lo...
Quantum chains in graphene nanoribbons
Aug 10, 2018 (SPX)
An international research team led by Empa's laboratory has now succeeded in precisely adjusting the properties of the ribbons by specifically varying their sha...
What makes diamonds blue
Aug 07, 2018 (SPX)
"These so-called type IIb diamonds are tremendously valuable, making them hard to get access to for scientific research purposes," explained lead author Evan Sm...
USTC proposes a facile, general, and effective strategy to prepare carbon nanomaterials
Aug 01, 2018 (SPX)
But they suffer from some distinct disadvantages, such as difficulty in tailoring the microstructures and chemical compositions of the obtained products, or com...
Canada gives big polluters a break on carbon levies
Aug 01, 2018 (AFP)
The government released a regulatory framework for carbon emissions in January, which was to take effect in 2019. After private meetings with stakeholders last ...
Greenhouse gases surge to new highs worldwide in 2017
Aug 01, 2018 (AFP)
The annual State of the Climate Report, compiled by more than 450 scientists from over 60 countries, describes worsening climate conditions worldwide in 2017, t...
Theorists find mechanism behind nearly pure nanotubes from the unusual catalyst
Jul 30, 2018 (SPX)
Rice materials theorist Boris Yakobson and his team bucked a theory that when growing nanotubes in a furnace, a catalyst with a specific atomic arrangement and ...
New study finds folding graphene significantly enhances mechanical performance
Jul 19, 2018 (SPX)
An international team of researchers, affiliated with UNIST has discovered that folding is an efficient strategy to incorporate large-area monolayer graphene fi...
Sound waves reveal diamond cache deep in Earth's interior
Jul 19, 2018 (SPX)
The ultradeep cache may be scattered within cratonic roots - the oldest and most immovable sections of rock that lie beneath the center of most continental tect...
FEFU scientists reported on toxicity of carbon and silicon nanotubes and carbon nanofibers
Jul 19, 2018 (SPX)
The international team of toxicologists led by scientists of Far Eastern Federal University (FEFU) has researched the environmental adverse effects of carbon na...
British taskforce recommends fast-track carbon capture and storage
Jul 19, 2018 (UPI)
"After six months of intense discussions between a number of key carbon capture usage and storage (CCUS) stakeholders, the message from today's report is clear:...
Researchers improve conductive property of graphene, advancing promise of solar technology
Jul 13, 2018 (SPX)
Now, two researchers from the University of Kansas, Professor Hui Zhao and graduate student Samuel Lane, both of the Department of Physics and Astronomy, have c...
In wildfire prone areas, grasslands better than trees for carbon storage
Jul 11, 2018 (UPI)
The findings, published this week in the journal Environmental Research Letters, suggest grasslands and rangelands should be prioritized by conservation and cap...
Charcoal: Major missing piece in the global carbon cycle
Jul 10, 2018 (SPX)
Due to its widespread occurrence and tendency to linger in the environment, black carbon may be one of the keys in predicting and mitigating global climate chan...
Graphene assembled film shows higher thermal conductivity than graphite film
Jul 06, 2018 (SPX)
Until now, scientists in the graphene research community have assumed that graphene assembled film cannot have higher thermal conductivity than graphite film. S...
Electrogeochemistry captures carbon, produces fuel, offsets ocean acidification
Jul 06, 2018 (SPX)
A new study published June 25 in Nature Climate Change evaluates the potential for recently described methods that capture carbon dioxide from the atmosphere th...
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