Carbon

Chemical filter reduces the carbon output of power plants

Biodegradable paper sensor detects spoiled food

smart paper packaging with built-in graphene sensor could offer real-time warnings of spoiled food or temperature conditions likely to cause spoilage

Carbon nanotubes could stretch for desired chirality

Researchers have come up with a novel strategy for growing carbon nanotubes with a single desired chirality.

New law of friction slides into view

By studying how sheets of graphene slide over a graphite surface, researchers have come up with a new law of friction.

ALF can capture carbon on the cheap

Researchers have shown that the metal-organic framework aluminum formate offers a cheap and effective material for capturing carbon dioxide.

Black carbon burns away to reveal white graphene

By burning away a scaffold of carbon nanotubes, engineers have been able to produce a forest of aligned boron nitride nanotubes.

Disorder like a plastic, conduct like a metal

Scientists have managed to produce a material with the disordered structure of a plastic that conducts electricity more like a metal.

Graphene collagen composite makes ideal neuronal interface

novel conductive biomaterial composite based on pristine graphene and collagen is ideal for neural medical device applications

Carbon dots enable real-time, non-invasive renal imaging

Monitoring kidney function might get less invasive

Mapping the temperature of heated nanotubes

Plasmon spectroscopy answers key questions for future electronics