News tagged with carbon sheet

Bilayer graphene works as an insulator

A research team led by physicists at the University of California, Riverside has identified a property of "bilayer graphene" (BLG) that the researchers say is analogous to finding the Higgs boson in particle ...

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Jan 24, 2012 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (10) | comments 5 | with audio podcast

Flaky graphene makes reliable chemical sensors

Scientists from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and the company Dioxide Materials have demonstrated that randomly stacked graphene flakes can make an effective chemical sensor.

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Jan 17, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Plunge in CO2 put the freeze on Antarctica

Plunge in CO2 put the freeze on AntarcticaAtmospheric carbon dioxide levels plunged by 40% before and during the formation of the Antarctic ice sheet 34 million years ago, according to a new study. The finding helps solv ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Dec 01, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 24 | with audio podcast

Shedding light on ice sheet collapse through Great Barrier Reef

An international team of scientists jointly led by Dr. Jody Webster, of the University of Sydney, and Dr Yusuke Yokoyama, of the University of Tokyo, is analyzing sediment cores drilled by the research ship, the Greatship ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Feb 21, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (4) | comments 0

Ice cores yield rich history of climate change

On Friday, Jan. 28 in Antarctica, a research team investigating the last 100,000 years of Earth's climate history reached an important milestone completing the main ice core to a depth of 3,331 meters (10,928 ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Feb 02, 2011 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (22) | comments 37 | with audio podcast

Nanotech Speakers Hold Promise for Sonar Uses

(PhysOrg.com) -- UT Dallas researchers have found that carbon nanotube sheets perform well as underwater sound generators and noise-canceling speakers, two highly desirable traits for submarine sonar and stealth ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Jun 14, 2010 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (4) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Through the Looking Glass: Scientists Peer Into Antarctica's Past to See Our Future Climate

In response to growing concerns about our planet’s changing climate, rising global temperatures and sea levels, and increasing concentrations of atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2), scientists are looking to ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Apr 29, 2010 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (5) | comments 8 | with audio podcast

Closing in on a carbon-based solar cell

To make large sheets of carbon available for light collection, Indiana University Bloomington chemists have devised an unusual solution -- attach what amounts to a 3-D bramble patch to each side of the carbon ...

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Apr 09, 2010 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (16) | comments 4 | with audio podcast

From Greenhouse to Icehouse

A new study that reconstructed ocean temperatures from millions of years ago could provide new insight into how the Earth responds to climate change.

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Nov 24, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (12) | comments 9

New CO2 data helps unlock the secrets of Antarctic formation

The link between declining CO2 levels in the earth's atmosphere and the formation of the Antarctic ice caps some 34 million years ago has been confirmed for the first time in a major research study.

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Sep 13, 2009 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (15) | comments 6

Long debate ended over cause, demise of ice ages -- may also help predict future

Researchers have largely put to rest a long debate on the underlying mechanism that has caused periodic ice ages on Earth for the past 2.5 million years - they are ultimately linked to slight shifts in solar radiation caused ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Aug 06, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (24) | comments 63

New wonder material, one-atom thick, has scientists abuzz

Imagine a carbon sheet that's only one atom thick but is stronger than diamond and conducts electricity 100 times faster than the silicon in computer chips. That's graphene, the latest wonder material coming out ...

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Jul 13, 2009 | popularity 3.9 / 5 (38) | comments 11

'Holey' Nanosheets for Wastewater Dye Removal

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers have discovered that extremely thin sheets of nickel oxide with hexagonally shaped holes can absorb hazardous dyes from wastewater nearly as well as the best traditional methods, but are recyclable. ...

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Jul 01, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 1 feature

Nanotubes weigh the atom

(PhysOrg.com) -- How can you weigh a single atom? European researchers have built an exquisite new device that can do just that. It may ultimately allow scientists to study the progress of chemical reactions, ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Jun 29, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Super-thin carbon sheets poised to revolutionize electronics

Super-thin films of carbon with exotic properties, now taking the scientific world by storm, may soon mean a new era of brighter, faster, and smaller computers, smart phones, and other consumer electronics. Brighter digital ...

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Mar 02, 2009 | popularity 3.6 / 5 (8) | comments 3


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