News tagged with carbon particles

Crude oil no longer needed for plastics

Each year the world produces about 130 million kilo of ethene, the most important raw material for plastics. This gigantic industry is currently dependent on crude oil. And that is running out. Dutch researcher Tymen Tiemersma ...

Chemistry / Materials Science

created Mar 30, 2010 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (20) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Conductive eTextiles: Researchers move from making batteries from paper to making batteries from cloth

(PhysOrg.com) -- Stanford researchers have moved from making batteries from paper to making batteries from cloth. Your-T-shirt could become a lighted, moving display.

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Feb 05, 2010 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (7) | comments 4 | with audio podcast

New Study Turns Up the Heat on Soot's Role in Himalayan Warming (w/ Video)

(PhysOrg.com) -- Soot from fire in an unventilated fireplace wafts into a home and settles on the surfaces of floors and furniture. But with a quick fix to the chimney flue and some dusting, it bears no impact ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Dec 14, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Interactions with Aerosols Boost Warming Potential of Some Gases

(PhysOrg.com) -- For decades, climate scientists have worked to identify and measure key substances -- notably greenhouse gases and aerosol particles -- that affect Earth’s climate. And they’ve been aided ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Oct 29, 2009 | popularity 3.2 / 5 (5) | comments 0

Better control of carbon nanotube 'growth' promising for future electronics

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers have overcome a major obstacle in efforts to use tiny structures called carbon nanotubes to create a new class of electronics that would be faster and smaller than conventional ...

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Oct 01, 2009 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (9) | comments 0

Superfast airplanes through super tiny technology

An interdisciplinary team of scientists led by Princeton engineers has been awarded a $3 million grant to study how fuel additives made of tiny particles known as nanocatalysts can help supersonic jets fly ...

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Jul 13, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (4) | comments 0

California to require sun-blocking car windows

New cars sold in California must include windshields that block or absorb the sun's rays beginning in 2012, the state's Air Resources Board recently ruled.

Space & Earth / Environment

created Jul 06, 2009 | popularity 2.5 / 5 (13) | comments 24

Graphene Yields Secrets to Its Extraordinary Properties

(PhysOrg.com) -- Applying innovative measurement techniques, researchers from the Georgia Institute of Technology and the National Institute of Standards and Technology have directly measured the unusual energy ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created May 14, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (26) | comments 0

Ocean carbon: A dent in the iron hypothesis

Oceanographers Jim Bishop and Todd Wood of the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory have measured the fate of carbon particles originating in plankton blooms in the Southern Ocean, ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created May 06, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (10) | comments 1

Aerosols May Drive a Significant Portion of Arctic Warming

(PhysOrg.com) -- Though greenhouse gases are invariably at the center of discussions about global climate change, new NASA research suggests that much of the atmospheric warming observed in the Arctic since ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Apr 08, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (19) | comments 15

First high-resolution images of bone, tooth and shell formation

Researchers at Eindhoven University of Technology (The Netherlands) have for the first time made high-resolution images of the earliest stages of bone formation. They used the world's most advanced electron ...

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Mar 12, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 0


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