News tagged with carbon atoms

Related topics: graphene , molecules , carbon nanotube , nano letters , electrons

Carbon atom pioneers share Nobel chemistry prize (Update 4)

Three scientists shared the 2010 Nobel Prize for Chemistry on Wednesday for forging a toolkit to manipulate carbon atoms, paving the way for new drugs to fight cancer and for revolutionary plastics.

Chemistry / Other

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Wonder carbon pioneers win Nobel Physics Prize (Update 4)

Two Russian-born scientists, Andre Geim and Konstantin Novoselov, won the 2010 Nobel Physics Prize Tuesday for pioneering work on graphene, touted as the wonder material of the 21st century.

Physics / General Physics

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Rapidly rotating graphene is fastest-spinning macroscopic object ever

(PhysOrg.com) -- At 60 million rotations per minute, a two-dimensional sheet of graphene has become the fastest-spinning trapped macroscopic object ever. Graphene is known for its large strength, and it's ...

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

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Nanocatalyst is a gas: New formula could make fuel production better, greener

A nanoparticle-based catalyst developed at Rice University may give that tiger in your tank a little more roar.

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

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Scientists observe single ions moving through tiny carbon-nanotube channel

(PhysOrg.com) -- For the first time, a team of MIT chemical engineers has observed single ions marching through a tiny carbon-nanotube channel. Such channels could be used as extremely sensitive detectors ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

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Ancient data discovered with new U of A technology

The University of Alberta has new multi-million dollar technology that can analyze an ancient mineral sample and tell you how it was created, its chemical makeup and its potential commercial value. It can ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

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Researchers develop simple technique to visualize atomic-scale structures

Researchers at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) have devised a new technique -- using a sheet of carbon just one atom thick -- to visualize the structure of molecules. The technique, which ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

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German researchers take a look inside molecules

Looking at individual molecules through a microscope is part of nanotechnologists' everyday lives. However, it has so far been difficult to observe atomic structures inside organic molecules. In the renowned ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

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International research team develops ultrahigh-power energy storage devices

A team of researchers from the U.S. and France report the development of a micro-supercapacitor with remarkable properties. The paper will be published in the premier scientific journal Nature Nanotechnology online on Aug ...

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

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Turning down the noise in graphene

(PhysOrg.com) -- Graphene is a two-dimensional crystalline sheet of carbon atoms - meaning it is only one atom thick - through which electrons can race at nearly the speed of light - 100 times faster than ...

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

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First step toward electronic DNA sequencing: Translocation through graphene nanopores

Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania have developed a new, carbon-based nanoscale platform to electrically detect single DNA molecules.

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

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Telescope Finds Elusive Buckyballs in Space for First Time

(PhysOrg.com) -- Astronomers using NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope have discovered carbon molecules, known as "buckyballs," in space for the first time.

Space & Earth / Astronomy

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Nearly Hard as Steel: Aluminum with Fullerenes

Russian researchers with Siemens Corporate Technology (CT) are using special carbon nanoparticles to optimize materials. They are adding fullerenes -- soccer ball-shaped molecules comprising 60 carbon atoms ...

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

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Battery research could lead to shorter recharge time for cell phones

(PhysOrg.com) -- Adding a bit of graphene to battery materials could dramatically cut the time it takes to recharge electronics.

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

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Secret revealed: The crystal structure of ribose

(PhysOrg.com) -- D-Ribose is just a small molecule - but an extremely important one for us life forms. It is astounding that the crystal structure of ribose is not included among the over 500,000 structures ...

Chemistry / Materials Science

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