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New graphene-based material clarifies graphite oxide chemistry

New graphene-based material clarifies graphite oxide chemistry

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Sep 25, 2008 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (16) | comments 0

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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INL engineers tackle graphite challenge with innovative new device

Technology / Engineering

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

Employees at the U.S. Department of Energy's Idaho National Laboratory recently reached an important milestone in developing the nation's next generation of nuclear reactors by the completion of the first of six planned Advanced ...


Camera flash turns an insulating material into a conductor

Chemistry / Materials Science

created Aug 12, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (6) | comments 0

An insulator can now be transformed to conduct electricity by an ordinary camera flash.


Graphite mimics iron's magnetism

Graphite mimics iron's magnetism

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Oct 04, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (17) | comments 1

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 ...


Water lilies inspire scientists to create large-scale graphene films

Chemistry /

created Jan 29, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

In the world of nanomaterials, scientists and engineers can create new structures with tiny building blocks as small as one billionth of a meter.


Self-validating thermocouples based on metal-carbon eutectic fixed points

Self-validating thermocouples based on metal-carbon eutectic fixed points

Physics / General Physics

created Oct 02, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

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 ...


Lithium-ion Car Battery

Increasing Electric Car Battery Performance

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Sep 23, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (20) | comments 10

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers have found that by replacing conventional graphite electrodes with silicon nanotube electrodes, lithium-ion batteries can store 10 times more charge.


Seeing Nanotubes Targeting Tumors In Vivo

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Oct 27, 2008 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (7) | comments 0

Carbon nanotubes have significant potential for delivering both imaging and therapeutic agents to tumors, but there is still a need to better quantify how well these rolled-up sheets of graphite can target tumors. Now, thanks ...


Glittering and glinting, the world's biggest diamond structure heads to the West End, UK

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Jul 20, 2009 | popularity 2.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- The largest representation ever created of the atomic structure of diamond will be brought to the West End on Tuesday for public exhibition. The sculpture is one of three works of science art portraying carbon ...


Researchers find better way to manufacture fast computer chips

Researchers Find Better Way To Manufacture Fast Computer Chips

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Mar 31, 2009 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (13) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- Engineers at Ohio State University are developing a technique for mass producing computer chips made from the same material found in pencils.


Researchers simplify fabrication of nano storage, chip-design tools

Researchers simplify fabrication of nano storage, chip-design tools

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Sep 09, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (7) | comments 1

Advances by the Rice University lab of James Tour have brought graphite's potential as a mass data storage medium a step closer to reality and created the potential for reprogrammable gate arrays that could ...



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