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Levidian and UAE's Dana Gas plan to convert flare gas into graphene

Graphene Info   -   Scientific and Educational Websites

UK-based Levidian is considering using flare gas from a UAE natural gas firm’s field operations to produce graphene and hydrogen. Dana Gas has revealed it had made an undisclosed investment into the British tech firm and had been working to deploy...

Jan 23, 2025

Diamond continues to shine: new properties discovered in diamond semiconductors

Technology Org   -   Scientific News Websites

Diamond, often celebrated for its unmatched hardness and transparency, has emerged as an exceptional material for high-power electronics and next-generation quantum optics. Diamond can be engineered to be as electrically conductive as a metal, by ...

Jan 22, 2025

Graphene oxide can help PEDOT conduct electricity, to enable efficient plastic supercapacitors

Graphene Info   -   Scientific and Educational Websites

PEDOT, short for poly(3,4-ethylenedioxythiophene), is a flexible, transparent film often applied to the surfaces of photographic films and electronic components to protect them from static electricity. It is also found in touch screens, organic so...

Jan 22, 2025

Novel perovskite growth method leads to ultrahigh-resolution micro-LED displays

Phys.org   -   Scientific News Websites

Microscale light-emitting diodes (micro-LEDs) are emerging as a next-generation display technology for optical communications, augmented and virtual reality, and wearable devices. Metal-halide perovskites show great potential for efficient light e...

Jan 21, 2025

Nanoislands on silicon enable switchable topological textures for new electronic applications

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Ferroelectrics at the nanoscale exhibit a wealth of polar and sometimes swirling (chiral) electromagnetic textures that not only represent fascinating physics, but also promise applications in future nanoelectronics. For example, ultra-high-densit...

Jan 21, 2025

Next-gen fibers: Smart textile can sense light, pressure, smell and even taste

Phys.org   -   Scientific News Websites

Researchers successfully developed a multifunctional sensor based on semiconductor fibers that emulates the five human senses. The technology developed in the study is expected to be utilized in a variety of state-of-the-art technology fields, suc...

Jan 21, 2025

Atomic pair catalyst converts methane to acetic acid with high efficiency

Phys.org   -   Scientific News Websites

In a study published in Nature Communications, a research group led by Prof. Deng Dehui, Assoc. Prof. Cui Xiaoju, and Prof. Yu Liang from the Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics (DICP) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has achieved highly effici...

Jan 21, 2025

From soot particle filters to renewable fuels

ScienceDaily   -   General News Websites

Unraveling the chemical processes in soot particle filters reveals new ways to produce synthetic fuels.

Jan 21, 2025

Scientists harness the power of 'layered' crystals for energy innovation

ScienceDaily   -   General News Websites

Scientists are unlocking the secrets of halide perovskites -- a material that's poised to reshape our future by bringing us closer to a new age of energy-efficient optoelectronics. Two physics professors are studying the material at the nanos...

Jan 21, 2025

Can DNA-nanoparticle motors get up to speed with motor proteins?

ScienceDaily   -   General News Websites

DNA-nanoparticle motors are exactly as they sound: tiny artificial motors that use the structures of DNA and RNA to propel motion by enzymatic RNA degradation. Essentially, chemical energy is converted into mechanical motion by biasing the Brownia...

Jan 21, 2025

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