A European research project has made an important step towards the further miniaturisation of nanoelectronics, using a highly-promising new material called silicene. Its goal: to make devices of the future vastly more powerful ...
Nanomaterials
Feb 26, 2015
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European researchers are investigating new approaches to decrease the concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, with a view to exploiting them. If successful, their experimental technology will help fight climate ...
Materials Science
Oct 25, 2017
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Because they can remove carbon dioxide from the flue gases of coal-burning facilities such as power plants, solid materials containing amines are being extensively studied as part of potential CO2 sequestration programs designed ...
Environment
Jul 14, 2010
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Research groups around the world are developing technologies to convert carbon dioxide (CO2) into raw materials for industrial applications. Most experiments under industrially relevant conditions have been carried out with ...
Materials Science
Dec 21, 2023
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It is only a couple of molecules thick, and could not be thinner: the sheet of glass that scientists at the University of Ulm and Cornell University have discovered by accident. This discovery has now been acknowledged as ...
Nanomaterials
Oct 7, 2013
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Metal-organic frameworks are porous materials that can absorb incredible amounts of substances, and researchers hope to use them to mop up pollutants or as part of fuel cells that store hydrogen gas.
Materials Science
Oct 19, 2017
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Researchers at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory and the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, are advancing gas membrane materials to expand practical technology options for reducing industrial carbon ...
Materials Science
Jul 2, 2020
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Scientists from EPFL, Germany and France have revealed a new property of the cheap and abundant material anatase titanium dioxide, which promises applications as a medium for room-temperature nanosensors of mechanical stress ...
Nanophysics
Jul 31, 2018
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(Phys.org) —A University of Illinois research group brought together aspects of condensed matter physics, semiconductor device engineering, and photochemistry to develop a new form of high-performance solar photocatalyst ...
Materials Science
Apr 23, 2013
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Ph.D. researcher Olawale Oloye and Professor Anthony O'Mullane from the QUT Centre for Clean Energy Technologies and Practices developed the electrochemical capture and conversion of carbon dioxide process which also generates ...
Biochemistry
Mar 25, 2021
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