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Columbia engineers create artificial graphene in a nanofabricated semiconductor structure
Dec 14, 2017 (SPX)
Working with colleagues from Princeton and Purdue Universities and Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, the team has engineered "artificial graphene" by recreating,...
A diamond as the steppingstone to new materials, using plasma physics technology
Dec 14, 2017 (SPX)
They are supported by a five-year, $20 million National Science Foundation award to create new materials and improve technologies using the fourth state of matt...
Graphene spin transport takes a step forward towards applications
Dec 13, 2017 (SPX)
Graphene's excellent tuneable electronic properties make it an ideal material for spintronics applications. Leading the way in three recent papers, Flagship res...
Wheat gets boost from purified nanotubes
Dec 11, 2017 (SPX)
The Rice lab of chemist Andrew Barron grew wheatgrass in a hydroponic garden to test the potential toxicity of nanoparticles on the plant. To their surprise, th...
Physicists from MSU stretched a diamond using an electric field
Dec 11, 2017 (SPX)
Diamonds are minerals composed of carbon and widely known by their phenomenal hardness. Besides diamonds possess other outstanding features. Similar to other cr...
Catalyzing carbon dioxide
Dec 07, 2017 (SPX)
For many, it's a cause for environmental concern, but for Haotian Wang, it's the perfect raw material. A Fellow at the Rowland Institute at Harvard, Wang and hi...
Hybrid electrolyte enhances supercapacitance in vertical graphene nanosheets
Dec 06, 2017 (SPX)
Using VGNs as the material for supercapacitor electrodes offers advantages due to their intriguing properties such as an interconnected porous nanoarchitecture,...
Scientists track Borneo's carbon reserves with Carnegie Airborne Observatory
Dec 04, 2017 (UPI)
Planet Earth hosts millions of tons of stored carbon. Forests, lakes, tundra, wetlands and more all serve as carbon reserves that prevent large amounts of carbo...
Draphene nano 'tweezers' can grab individual biomolecules
Dec 04, 2017 (SPX)
Graphene, a material made of a single layer of carbon atoms, was discovered more than a decade ago and has enthralled researchers with its range of amazing prop...
Fast flowing heat in graphene heterostructures
Dec 04, 2017 (SPX)
Perhaps even more promising are so-called van der Waals heterostructures, consisting of different layered two-dimensional materials stacked one on top of the ot...
Deducing the properties of a new form of diamond
Dec 04, 2017 (SPX)
Diamond is a form of pure carbon in which the atoms are arranged in a crystal lattice, with each carbon atom surrounded by four other carbons at the corners of ...
Highly efficient photocatalyst capable of carbon dioxide recycling
Dec 04, 2017 (SPX)
The photocatalysts developed by the research team can be used to convert carbon dioxide to fuels like methane. Therefore, it is expected to be applied to techno...
A transistor of graphene nanoribbons
Dec 01, 2017 (SPX)
This means that it has a sufficiently large energy or band gap in which no electron states can exist: it can be turned on and off - and thus may become a key co...
Evaluation of novel hybrid membranes for carbon capture
Nov 30, 2017 (SPX)
Membrane technology is one approach being investigated globally for the cost-effective capture of the carbon dioxide. However, to be successful, the membrane ma...
Ultrathin and flat graphene metalenses gain morace properties
Nov 30, 2017 (SPX)
Metasurfaces are new 2D materials that can effectively control the electric and magnetic components of light (and other electromagnetic waves) and bend them to ...
Tuning the wavelength of fluorescent carbon tubes
Nov 29, 2017 (SPX)
Now, in a study reported in Chemical Communications, researchers at Japan's Kyushu University learned to control the fluorescence of CNTs, potentially allowing ...
Pink diamond sells for over $32 mn in Hong Kong
Nov 28, 2017 (AFP)
The 14.93-carat pink gemstone went to an unidentified phone bidder as applause filled the room. Auctioneers Christie's said it was the second highest price per ...
Graphene oxide making any material suitable to create biosensors
Nov 28, 2017 (SPX)
Devices with such coatings will make it possible to detect and study individual living cells, including dangerous microorganisms, cancer cells and dangerous sub...
New graphene filter turns whiskey clear
Nov 14, 2017 (UPI)
Previous graphene-oxide filters proved impermeable to all but water, limiting their potential. But researchers at the University of Manchester found they could ...
EU agrees to reform world's largest carbon market
Nov 09, 2017 (AFP)
But environmentalists complained it will be years before the effects make themselves felt from the overhaul of the world's biggest carbon market, which was tent...
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