News tagged with graphite oxide
Graphite oxide at high pressure opens a road to new amazing nano-materials
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Dec 21, 2009 |
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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 ...
Camera flash turns an insulating material into a conductor
Aug 12, 2009 |
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An insulator can now be transformed to conduct electricity by an ordinary camera flash.
Water lilies inspire scientists to create large-scale graphene films
Jan 29, 2009 |
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In the world of nanomaterials, scientists and engineers can create new structures with tiny building blocks as small as one billionth of a meter.
New graphene-based material clarifies graphite oxide chemistry
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Sep 25, 2008 |
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A new "graphene-based" material that helps solve the structure of graphite oxide and could lead to other potential discoveries of the one-atom thick substance called graphene, which has applications in nanoelectronics, ...
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Researchers Find Better Way To Manufacture Fast Computer Chips
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Mar 31, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Engineers at Ohio State University are developing a technique for mass producing computer chips made from the same material found in pencils.
Coming Soon: Improved Lithium Ion Batteries?
Nov 19, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Rechargeable lithium ion batteries provide portable devices that require a lot of energy, such as mobile telephones, digital cameras, and notebook computers, with power. However, their capacity, and thus ...
Graphite mimics iron's magnetism
Oct 04, 2009 |
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Researchers of Eindhoven University of Technology and the Radboud University Nijmegen in The Netherlands show for the first time why ordinary graphite is a permanent magnet at room temperature. The results ...
Graphene oxide paper could spawn a new class of materials
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Jul 25, 2007 |
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Nearly 2,000 years ago, the discovery of paper revolutionized human communication. Now researchers at Northwestern University have fabricated a new type of paper that they hope will create a revolution of its own -- and while ...
Researchers develop new method for producing transparent conductors
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
May 13, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers at UCLA have developed a new method for producing a hybrid graphene-carbon nanotube, or G-CNT, for potential use as a transparent conductor in solar cells and consumer electronic devices. These ...
Nano World: Composites with nano-graphite
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Jul 24, 2006 |
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Strong, lightweight plastic-like composites made with highly electrically conductive sheets of carbon just one atom thick could find use in electronics and protect aircraft from lightning strikes, experts told UPI's Nano ...
Researchers discover method for mass production of nanomaterial graphene
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Nov 10, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Graphene is a perfect example of the wonders of nanotechnology, in which common substances are scaled down to an atomic level to uncover new and exciting possibilities.
Nanopencil Can Provide Terabit Data Storage Density
Sep 22, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists have fabricated a 'nanopencil' with a tip so small that it can be used as a scanning probe in ultrahigh-density computer data storage systems.
Self-validating thermocouples based on metal-carbon eutectic fixed points
Oct 02, 2009 |
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When used at high temperatures (above 1100 °C) thermocouples are prone to substantial calibration drift. To gauge the extent of the drift, for example, in an industrial setting, it is highly desirable for ...
Synthetic protein mimics structure, function of metalloprotein in nature
Dec 10, 2009 |
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Scientists have designed a synthetic protein that is both a structural model and a functional model of a native protein, nitric-oxide reductase.
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