News tagged with crystalline carbon
Fast, cheap, and accurate: Detecting CO2 with a fluorescent twist
Detecting specific gases in the air is possible using a number of different existing technologies, but typically all of these suffer from one or more drawbacks including high energy cost, large size, slow detection speed, ...
Sep 04, 2011 |
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The search for improved carbon sponges picks up speed
(PhysOrg.com) -- A new class of materials with a record-shattering internal surface may have the right stuff to efficiently strip carbon dioxide from a power plant's exhaust. Berkeley lab scientists hope to ...
May 27, 2010 |
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Room Temperature Liquid Porphyrins
(PhysOrg.com) -- Porphyrins have received a great deal of attention in the scientific community owing to their useful application in a wide variety of areas, such as the treatment of cancer and systems that mimic photosynthesis. ...
Mar 23, 2010 |
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New study confirms exotic electric properties of graphene
(PhysOrg.com) -- First, it was the soccer-ball-shaped molecules dubbed buckyballs. Then it was the cylindrically shaped nanotubes. Now, the hottest new material in physics and nanotechnology is graphene: ...
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Nov 17, 2009 |
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Using Nanotubes in Computer Chips
(PhysOrg.com) -- MIT materials scientists have developed a new technique for growing carbon nanotubes that could replace the vertical wires in chips, permitting denser packing of circuits.
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Sep 10, 2009 |
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