Lab turns hard-to-process plastic waste into carbon-capture master
Here's another thing to do with that mountain of used plastic: make it soak up excess carbon dioxide.
Nanomaterials
Apr 5, 2022
3
390
News tagged with carbon content
The uncertain future of the oceans
The ocean plays a key role in the current climate change, as it absorbs a considerable part of the atmospheric carbon dioxide emitted by mankind. On the one hand, this slows down the heating of the climate, and on the other ...
Environment
Oct 26, 2020
0
155
Graphene additives show a new way to control the structure of organic crystals
A team of researchers at The University of Manchester has demonstrated that the surface properties of graphene can be used to control the structure of organic crystals obtained from solution.
Nanomaterials
Sep 1, 2020
0
168
Stony corals: At the limits of adaption?
Corals fascinate amateurs and experts alike: small polyps that extract calcium carbonate from seawater and use it to build their elaborate skeletons. But climate change, with rising water temperatures and increasing ocean ...
Ecology
Aug 8, 2019
2
15
Soil pores, carbon stores, and breathing microbes
Researchers at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) recently studied how moisture influences soil heterotrophic respiration. That's the breathing-like process by which microbes convert dead organic carbon in the ...
Environment
Jan 16, 2017
0
79
Deep mantle chemistry surprise: Carbon content not uniform
Even though carbon is one of the most-abundant elements on Earth, it is actually very difficult to determine how much of it exists below the surface in Earth's interior. Analysis by Carnegie's Marion Le Voyer and Erik Hauri ...
Earth Sciences
Jan 13, 2017
0
204
Catalytic tandem reaction for conversion of lignin and bio-oil by hydroxylation of phenols to form arenes
(Phys.org) —Biomass, which is useful as a supplement or replacement for petroleum, is processed in biorefineries and can be used as fuels or starting materials for the production of chemicals. However, the high oxygen content ...
Materials Science
Sep 24, 2013
0
0
A solar booster shot for natural gas power plants
Natural gas power plants can use about 20 percent less fuel when the sun is shining by injecting solar energy into natural gas with a new system being developed by the Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory. ...
Energy & Green Tech
Apr 12, 2013
5
0
Scientists create new flexible mineral inspired by deep-sea sponges
Scientists at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz and the Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research in Germany have created a new synthetic hybrid material with a mineral content of almost 90 percent, yet extremely flexible. ...
Materials Science
Mar 15, 2013
0
0
Delivering solar geoengineering materials may be feasible and affordable
A cost analysis of the technologies needed to transport materials into the stratosphere to reduce the amount of sunlight hitting Earth and therefore reduce the effects of global climate change has shown that they are both ...
Earth Sciences
Aug 31, 2012
9
0
