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Researchers set new bar for water-splitting, CO2-splitting techniques
Aug 31, 2017 (SPX)
The water-splitting process successfully converts 90 percent of water into hydrogen gas, while the CO2-splitting process converts more than 98 percent of the CO...
UConn chemist synthesizes pure graphene
Aug 30, 2017 (SPX)
UConn chemistry professor Doug Adamson, a member of the Polymer Program in UConn's Institute of Materials Science, has patented a one-of-a-kind process for exfo...
Ames Laboratory scientists move graphene closer to transistor applications
Aug 30, 2017 (SPX)
The researchers were able to theoretically calculate the mechanism by which graphene's electronic band structure could be modified with metal atoms. The work wi...
Faster, more precise, more stable: Study optimizes graphene growth
Aug 28, 2017 (SPX)
Graphene breaks all records. It is the thinnest and most stable material in the world, ultralight, tear-proof, electrically conductive, and highly resilient. Si...
Boron nitride foam soaks up carbon dioxide
Aug 21, 2017 (SPX)
They discovered freeze-drying h-BN turned it into a macro-scale foam that disintegrates in liquids. But adding a bit of polyvinyl alcohol (PVA) into the mix tra...
Fizzy soda water could be key to clean manufacture of flat wonder material: Graphene
Aug 21, 2017 (SPX)
As graphene's popularity grows as an advanced "wonder" material, the speed and quality at which it can be manufactured will be paramount. With that in mind, the...
From greenhouse gas to 3-D surface-microporous graphene
Aug 09, 2017 (SPX)
A material scientist at Michigan Technological University invented a novel approach to take carbon dioxide and turn it into 3-D graphene with micropores across ...
Large single-crystal graphene is possible
Jul 27, 2017 (SPX)
Recently, a team led by Prof. Feng Ding and Prof. Rodney Ruoff at the Center for Multidimensional Carbon Materials within the Institute for Basic Science (IBS),...
Chemical route towards electronic devices in graphene
Jul 27, 2017 (SPX)
By selecting certain precursor substances (molecules), we can code the structure of the electrical circuit with extreme accuracy," explains Peter Liljeroth from...
Off Namibia, an underwater diamond harvest
Jul 26, 2017 (AFP)
The 285-tonne giant, dubbed "the butcher" by its operators, is diamond miner De Beers' hi-tech tool to collect the precious stones. After several hours of maint...
Fluorine grants white graphene new powers
Jul 18, 2017 (SPX)
Because the atomically thin material is an exceptional conductor of heat, the researchers suggested it may be useful for electronics in high-temperature applica...
Carbon displays quantum effects
Jul 14, 2017 (SPX)
However, researchers have only rarely observed the wave-particle duality for heavy atoms, such as carbon. The team led by Prof Dr Wolfram Sander and Tim Schleif...
Flourine lends white graphene new qualities
Jul 14, 2017 (UPI)
White graphene is a two-dimensional atomic sheet of hexagonal boron nitride. Its hexagonal structure is similar to that of regular graphene, but the atomic laye...
Clemson researchers illuminate the field of microscopy with nanoparticle 'buckyswitch'
Jul 14, 2017 (SPX)
With the help of Rhonda Powell and Terri Bruce of Clemson's Light Imaging Facility, the team was able to develop a nanoparticle "switch" that fluoresces to shar...
A room temperature field-effect transistor using graphene's electron spin
Jul 10, 2017 (SPX)
Using the spin of the electrons in graphene and other layered material heterostructures the researchers have produced working devices as a step towards integrat...
Highly nitrogen and sulfur dual-doped carbon microspheres for supercapacitors
Jul 10, 2017 (SPX)
Heteroatom doping, especially dual-doped carbon materials have attracted much attention for the past few years, and have been regarded as one of the most effici...
Recruiting manganese to upgrade carbon dioxide
Jul 10, 2017 (SPX)
For instance, carbon dioxide enables energy storage by reacting with hydrogen gas - called the hydrogenation process - transforming the mixture into higher ener...
Black carbon varies, but stubbornly persists, in snow and ice around the world
Jul 03, 2017 (SPX)
Black carbon is the soot-like byproduct of wildfires and fossil fuel consumption, able to be carried long distances via atmospheric transport. Because these bla...
Ultra-compact phase modulators based on graphene plasmons
Jun 28, 2017 (SPX)
In a recent paper published in Nature Photonics, ICFO researchers Dr. Achim Woessner and Dr. Mark Lundeberg, led by ICREA Prof. at ICFO Frank Koppens, in collab...
Researchers create tiny sensor using 'white graphene'
Jun 28, 2017 (UPI)
The sensor is made by placing white graphene, a 2D atomic sheet of hexagonal boron nitride, over the minuscule holes in a silicon substrate. Scientists say the ...
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