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Researchers find simple and cheap way to mass-produce graphene nanosheets

Mixing a little dry ice and a simple industrial process cheaply mass-produces high-quality graphene nanosheets, researchers in South Korea and Case Western Reserve University report.

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Mar 26, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (33) | comments 22 | with audio podcast

Made to order diamonds hold key to stunning laser discoveries

(PhysOrg.com) -- Diamond is best known for being a prized gem and the hardest cutting element available, but now thanks to research being carried out at Macquarie University it is also proving to be a super ...

Physics / Optics & Photonics

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Bejeweled: Nanotech gets boost from nanowire decorations

Like a lead actress on the red carpet, nanowires—those superstars of nanotechnology—can be enhanced by a little jewelry, too. Not the diamonds and pearls variety, but the sort formed of sinuous chains ...

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Apr 27, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Networks in motion

A new article by a Northwestern University complex networks expert discusses how networks governing processes in nature and society are becoming increasingly amenable to modeling, forecast and control.

Other Sciences / Mathematics

created Apr 19, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Polycrystalline diamond drill bits open up options for geothermal energy

Nearly two-thirds of the oil we use comes from wells drilled using polycrystalline diamond compact (PDC) bits, originally developed nearly 30 years ago to lower the cost of geothermal drilling. Sandia and ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Mar 19, 2012 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 6

Black arsenic: Fact or fiction? Synthesis and identification of metastable compounds

(PhysOrg.com) -- Phosphorus and arsenic are on top of each other in one group of the periodic table, so they have many similar properties. In addition to tubular forms, phosphorus is found in white, red, black, ...

Chemistry / Materials Science

created Feb 17, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Nanodiamond coatings safe for implants: study

Nanodiamonds designed to toughen artificial joints also might prevent the inflammation caused when hardworking metal joints shed debris into the body, according to an early study published this week in the ...

Chemistry / Materials Science

created Feb 05, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (8) | comments 5 | with audio podcast

Diamonds and dust for better cement

(PhysOrg.com) -- It's no surprise that humans the world over use more water, by volume, than any other material. But in second place, at over 17 billion tons consumed each year, comes concrete made with Portland ...

Chemistry / Materials Science

created Dec 12, 2011 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Ultrafine processing technology continues its evolution

The performance of optical and electronic components such as lenses and semiconductors is strongly influenced by the precision of surface grinding, which involves shaping the surface, and polishing, and provides ...

Technology / Engineering

created Nov 21, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Building crystalline materials from nanoparticles and DNA

Nature is a master builder. Using a bottom-up approach, nature takes tiny atoms and, through chemical bonding, makes crystalline materials, like diamonds, silicon and even table salt. In all of them, the properties of the ...

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Oct 13, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

How diamonds emerge from graphite

Scientists have used a new method to precisely simulate the phase transition from graphite to diamond for the first time. Instead of happening concerted, all at once, the conversion evidently takes place in ...

Physics / Condensed Matter

created Sep 21, 2011 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Tackling mysteries about carbon, possible oil formation and more deep inside Earth

How do diamonds the size of potatoes shoot up at 40 miles per hour from their birthplace 100 miles below Earth's surface? Does a secret realm of life exist inside the Earth? Is there more oil and natural gas ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Aug 29, 2011 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (8) | comments 7 | with audio podcast


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