Carbon news, August 2022

Researchers float the idea of artificial leaves

Using thin-film metal oxides and perovskites, researchers have created fuel-producing artificial leaves that are light enough to float on water.

Thinking about graphene synapses

Researchers have developed a transistor made from graphene and the polymer nafion that can operate like synapses in the brain.

Graphene could make sport shoe soles more robust

Addition of graphene gives running shoes a boost

Carbon capture materials sourced from cheap and sustainable resources

Using melamine to efficiently capture CO2 from flue gases

Sanding surfaces can make them superhydrophobic

Using sandpaper and a selection of powders, researchers have come up wth a simple method to make surfaces superhydrophobic.

Openings for Editors, the Acta Journals

Novel carbon-capture material is cheap and plastic

Using an inexpensive polymer called melamine, researchers have created a cheap, easy and energy-efficient way to capture carbon dioxide.

Graphene helps reveal swimming atoms

Using a graphene liquid cell, researchers have, for the first time, managed to capture images of single atoms ‘swimming’ in liquid.