Scientists make hydrocarbon breakthrough using gold catalyst
Researchers from Cardiff University are opening up a new way of using hydrocarbon feedstocks to make a range of valuable products.
Materials Science
Jan 13, 2011
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Simulating space to explore the great mystery of interstellar chemistry
The universe is more than 13 billion years old and space is often depicted as a vast, empty vacuum. Other than planets and stars, there's nothing there, right? Actually, space is littered with complex, carbon-based molecules. ...
Astrobiology
Oct 24, 2023
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Novel material could make plastic manufacturing more energy-efficient
An innovative filtering material may soon reduce the environmental cost of manufacturing plastic. Created by a team including scientists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), the advance can extract ...
Materials Science
Oct 25, 2018
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Universal mechanism to explain formation of carbon nanoparticles in interstellar and terrestrial environments
Carbon nanostructures that formed in circumstellar envelopes around carbon-rich stars may have a shared chemical origin with soot particles produced by fuel combustion. The same reaction mechanism may underpin each process, ...
Nanophysics
May 16, 2022
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Constraining the chemistry of carbon-chain molecules in space
The interstellar medium of the Milky Way contains 5-10% of the total mass of the galaxy (excluding its dark matter) and consists primarily of hydrogen gas. There are small but important contributions from other gases as well, ...
Astronomy
Feb 27, 2017
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NASA develops key to cosmic carbon's molecular evolution
(Phys.org) —Scientists at NASA's Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, Calif., now have the capability to systematically investigate the molecular evolution of cosmic carbon. For the first time, these scientists are able ...
Astronomy
May 14, 2013
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Cassini sees precursors to aerosol haze on Titan
(Phys.org) —Scientists working with data from NASA's Cassini mission have confirmed the presence of a population of complex hydrocarbons in the upper atmosphere of Saturn's largest moon, Titan, that later evolve into the ...
Space Exploration
Jun 6, 2013
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Molecular design strategy reveals near infrared-absorbing hydrocarbon
Nagoya University researchers have synthesized a unique molecule with a surprising property: It can absorb near infrared light. The molecule is made only of hydrogen and carbon atoms and offers insights for making organic ...
Materials Science
Oct 16, 2020
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Carbon nanotubes grow in combustion flames
Professor Stephan Irle of the Institute of Transformative Bio-Molecules (WPI-ITbM) at Nagoya University and co-workers at Kyoto University, Oak Ridge National Lab (ORNL), and Chinese research institutions have revealed through ...
Nanomaterials
Apr 1, 2014
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Size matters - even for molecules
Two electrons that are emitted from a large molecule by a single photon may originate from far apart within that molecule. In a recent study on hydrocarbon molecules consisting of one to five fused benzene rings (each ring ...
General Physics
Apr 11, 2012
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