News tagged with carbon nanostructures
New research may lead to revolutionary new devices
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Sep 25, 2009 |
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Dr. Jiwoong Park of Cornell University, who receives funding for basic research from the Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR), is investigating carbon nanostructures that may some day be used in ...
Engineering Carbon for Impressive Hydrogen Storage
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
May 22, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- University of Missouri researchers recently showed how carbon nanostructures can be engineered to become excellent media for hydrogen storage, work that may be important for the advancement of hydrogen-energy ...
Researchers create catalysts for use in hydrogen storage materials
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Mar 24, 2009 |
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A team of scientists from Virginia Commonwealth University, the University of Uppsala in Sweden, and the Savannah River National Laboratory have identified that carbon nanostructures can be used as catalysts to store and ...
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Nanoparticles go platinum: NCEM instruments provide key images
16 hours ago |
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At Berkeley Lab's National Center for Electron Microscopy it was revealed that single-stranded DNA can disperse bundles of single-walled carbon nanotubes into individual tubes and serve as guideposts for synthesizing ...
Graphite oxide at high pressure opens a road to new amazing nano-materials
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
16 hours ago |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- New results by scientists at Umeľ University, Sweden, show that not only water but also alcohol solvents can be inserted to expand the structure of graphite oxide under high pressure conditions. The ...
Cornellians build computer climate-change model
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
19 hours ago |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers are contributing to a new model of climate change that may give more accurate predictions of the amount of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases in Earth's future.
Researcher Uses Graphene Quilts to Keep Things Cool
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
20 hours ago |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- University of California, Riverside Professor of Electrical Engineering and Chair of Materials Science and Engineering Alexander Balandin is leading several projects to explore ways to use ...
'Particle soup' discovery will improve climate predictions
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
20 hours ago |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- New research from scientists at The University of Manchester is set to improve predictions about climate and air quality - and make life easier for those suffering from respiratory problems.
Switchable Nanostructures Made with DNA
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
21 hours ago |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Brookhaven National Laboratory have found a new way to use a synthetic form of DNA to control the assembly of nanoparticles — this time resulting ...
Smashing trash with solar power
23 hours ago |
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They seem to turn heads wherever they're installed: new solar-powered trash compactors that are meant to save time and energy.
Molecular freight: Synthetic nanoscale transport system modeled on nature
Dec 21, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Just like our roads, there is a lot of traffic within the cells in our bodies, because cell components, messenger molecules, and enzymes must also be brought to the right places in the cell. One of these ...
Polluting pets: the devastating impact of man's best friend
Dec 21, 2009 |
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Man's best friend could be one of the environment's worst enemies, according to a new study which says the carbon pawprint of a pet dog is more than double that of a gas-guzzling sports utility vehicle.
Potatoes, algae replace oil in US company's plastics
Dec 21, 2009 |
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Frederic Scheer is biding his time, convinced that by 2013 the price of oil will be so high that his bio-plastics, made from vegetables and plants, will be highly marketable.
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