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Chemistry World January 29, 2009 James Urquhart |
Graphene to graphane by chemical conversion An international research team have successfully converted graphene - sheets of carbon just a single layer of atoms thick - into its hydrogenated equivalent, graphane. |
Chemistry World June 23, 2011 Carl Saxton |
Graphene goes 3D Scientists in China have developed a quick and easy procedure for preparing 3D graphene in water, enhancing graphene's properties so that it can be used in supercapacitors, to store hydrogen and as a catalyst support. |
Chemistry World January 26, 2011 Mike Brown |
Carbon nanotubes for hydrogen storage Researchers in Germany have designed a 3D carbon-based nanotube matrix that can store and release hydrogen extremely efficiently. The material could form the basis of a sustainable hydrogen economy, they say. |
Chemistry World September 7, 2006 Tom Westgate |
Molecular Framework Sucks up Hydrogen Researchers have now developed a coordination framework material that is the best yet in terms of hydrogen storage. However, the materials currently require low temperatures to achieve the high loading of hydrogen. |
Chemistry World June 28, 2011 Simon Hadlington |
A Cool Way to Store Hydrogen? Theoretical chemists in the US have suggested a rather more commonplace solution to store hydrogen: ice. |
Chemistry World January 28, 2008 Lewis Brindley |
Graphene Sheets with Less Flap Researchers in Australia have developed a new way to make graphene, the atom-thin sheets that stack together to make the graphite found in pencil lead. |
Industrial Physicist Feb/Mar 2004 Pinkerton & Wicke |
Bottling the hydrogen genie If hydrogen is to replace gasoline for road transport, a means to store useful quantities of hydrogen on-board the vehicle must be found. Storage as a liquid, as a gas, or in metal hydrides all have serious limitations. |
Chemistry World November 2011 Philip Ball |
Column: The Crucible Growing graphene by CVD might benefit from an initial injection of hexagonality to start off on the right footing. |
Chemistry World November 16, 2007 Richard Van Noorden |
Tantalizing Boost for Hydrogen Storage US chemists have announced the discovery of a new hydrogen-storage material, which they say stores large amounts of the gas at room temperature. |
Chemistry World December 10, 2008 Hayley Birch |
New routes to gram-scale graphene Australian researchers have reported making grams of graphene using nothing more complicated than sodium and ethanol |
Chemistry World May 1, 2009 Lewis Brindley |
Hydrogen fuel tank gets cooler and cleaner Scientists have improved the performance of ammonia borane as a hydrogen storage material - making it more practical for a fuel tank in hydrogen-powered vehicles. |
Chemistry World May 9, 2010 Hayley Birch |
Filming fullerene formation Real-time, atomic level microscopy has revealed that the round, cage-like structures of fullerenes can form directly from sheets containing large numbers of carbon atoms. |
Popular Mechanics April 1, 2008 Chris Ladd |
Nano Tanks Could Store Hydrogen in Microscopic 'Soccer Balls' While hydrogen gas and fuel cells remain far-off realities for solving the fuel crunch, new computer models of interlocked carbon chambers have proven to store hydrogen at similar pressures to the cores of huge planets. |
Chemistry World February 28, 2007 Richard Van Noorden |
First Graphene Transistors May Herald Future of Electronic Chips Researchers claim to have created the world's first practical transistors cut from ribbons of graphene, a single layer of carbon atoms. |
Chemistry World November 29, 2013 Simon Hadlington |
Pressure cooker produces new metal hydride By squeezing iridium and hydrogen together under ultra-high pressures, researchers have produced a novel metal hydride with an unusually high hydrogen content and an unconventional structure. |
Technology Research News January 15, 2003 Eric Smalley |
Metal stores more hydrogen One reason the world isn't running on hydrogen fuel is that it's hard to store. Researchers from the National University of Singapore have made an accidental discovery that brings the promise of clean hydrogen energy a big step forward. |
Chemistry World November 18, 2009 Lewis Brindley |
Ironing graphene sheets flat Rather than leaving 'ripples' characteristic of graphene sheets, the technique produces 'ultra flat' graphene which could be very useful for electrical applications. |
Technology Research News December 1, 2004 |
Chemical Keeps Hydrogen on Ice Researchers have devised a new way to store hydrogen at low pressure and a temperature that is just above freezing. The work is a step toward practical hydrogen storage for vehicles. |
Chemistry World November 10, 2014 Andy Extance |
Hydrogen bond pictures come under close scrutiny Scientists have cast doubt on whether striking atomic force microscopy images previously thought to show hydrogen bonds are real or merely an artefact. |
Chemistry World January 26, 2012 David Bradley |
Leaky graphene oxide lets water pour through UK researchers have created a graphene-based membrane that allows water through but not helium. |
Chemistry World January 6, 2016 Jon Cartwright |
Graphene sieves deuterium from hydrogen Materials composed of a single layer of atoms, such as graphene, can separate hydrogen and deuterium more effectively than almost any other process. |
Chemistry World February 11, 2015 Jon Evans |
Calculations predict pentagonal graphene Scientists in China have proposed the existence of a novel 2D allotrope of carbon made up of pentagons, which they have dubbed 'penta-graphene'. |
Chemistry World February 27, 2013 Simon Hadlington |
Supercharging methanol for fuel cells Scientists in Germany and Italy have discovered a way to derive hydrogen gas from methanol at low temperatures and pressures using soluble ruthenium-based 'pincer' catalysts. |
Chemistry World October 31, 2013 Simon Hadlington |
US researchers create 'cleanest' graphene yet US scientists seeking to develop new ways to make electrical contacts on graphene have killed two birds with one stone. |
Technology Research News May 4, 2005 |
Nano Pyramids Boost Fuel Cells Researchers have devised a way to make iridium surfaces that are extremely finely textured. The surface is textured with pyramids which increases the available surface area of the metal. The increased surface area speeds the catalytic reaction that breaks down ammonia to extract hydrogen. |
Reactive Reports Issue 62 |
Alumination at last! More powerful solid rocket fuel could be the product of research into a new class of compounds containing aluminum and hydrogen compounds, according to an international research team. |
Chemistry World April 23, 2013 Laura Howes |
Carving graphene snowflakes with gases Beautiful flakes aren't made of ice but are instead etched into a sheet of graphene. A group at the Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences in China, etched the graphene flakes using a flow of argon and hydrogen gas. |
Chemistry World April 26, 2007 Richard Van Noorden |
Hydrogen Busters go Synthetic Chemists have created a small molecule which mimics the way natural enzymes chew up hydrogen. The model should inspire designs for new catalysts that can break up hydrogen in fuel cells; or (running in reverse) help produce the fuel for a hydrogen economy. |
Chemistry World November 26, 2012 David Bradley |
Spotting silicon in graphene, it's dope A combination of scanning transmission electron microscopy and atomic-resolution spectroscopic techniques has allowed US researchers to pick out individual silicon atoms in a doped graphene sheet. |
Chemistry World October 3, 2014 Jennifer Newton |
Assessing covalency in the hydrogen bond zoo Worried that the concept of hydrogen bonding has been getting fuzzier over time, scientists in Germany have sought a fresh look at the very nature of these bonds, and how much covalency they involve. |
Technology Research News May 21, 2003 Eric Smalley |
Hydrogen storage eased The discovery of metal-organic frameworks promises to remove the principal stumbling block to hydrogen-powered cars, and the method could be ready for production use within five years. |
Popular Mechanics November 2006 Wise & Hutchinson |
The Truth About Hydrogen Can the simplest element in the universe really power our homes, fuel our cars and reduce our contribution to global warming? PM crunches the numbers on the real hydrogen economy. |
Chemistry World April 11, 2011 Laura Howes |
Pocket sized fuel cell, a step closer A new catalyst for hydrogen evolution could see you carry around a fuel cell in your pocket to power electronic devices. |
Chemistry World March 14, 2013 Mark Peplow |
Hydrogen's false economy Hydrogen will undoubtedly find transport niches, but talk of hydrogen powering a substantial proportion of the planet's billion cars (and counting) is driven more by techno-optimism than evidence. |
IndustryWeek October 1, 2007 Jill Jusko |
Powered by Pellets New hydrogen storage mechanism could fuel tomorrow's cars. |
Chemistry World April 2, 2012 Jon Cartwright |
Hydrogen That Mimics Graphene Researchers claim to have discovered a new phase of hydrogen in which the diatomic molecules break apart to form six-atom rings, similar to graphene. The new phase, which occurs at very high pressures, could be a stepping stone towards a long-sought after phase: metallic hydrogen. |
Chemistry World October 15, 2014 Jennifer Newton |
Liming Dai: Integrating nanochemistry into the macroscopic world Liming Dai's expertise lies across the synthesis, chemical modification and device fabrication of conjugated polymers and carbon nanomaterials for energy-related and biomedical applications. |
The Motley Fool November 27, 2007 David Lee Smith |
Honda Takes Hydrogen Out for a Spin Eureka! Honda and others are moving to the production of clean-burning fuel-cell engines. |
Scientific American Steven Ashley |
Solid (State) Progress Hydrogen-fuel storage for cars gets a materials boost. |
Industrial Physicist |
Letters A sheet of graphite is distinctly different in its material and geometric structure from C60 bucky- (nano-) tubes... Hydrogen rules?... etc. |
Chemistry World September 25, 2008 Simon Hadlington |
Graphene racks up the charge Researchers in the US have used graphene, sheets of carbon that are just one atom thick, to improve the performance of energy-storage devices which could supersede batteries in electric cars. |
Chemistry World November 1, 2013 Laura Howes |
UK failing to capitalize on graphene A new policy statement from the Institution of Mechanical Engineers warns that while UK universities lead the world in graphene development, the country's poor commercialization of the material could see it fall behind. |
Reactive Reports Issue 32 David Bradley |
The power of economy New metal-organic frameworks could make the transport, storage, and delivery of hydrogen much easier and open the door to what has been described as a hydrogen-based economy. |
Chemistry World October 3, 2013 Jon Cartwright |
Graphene targets water treatment and carbon capture Researchers in South Korea have demonstrated that a membrane based on graphene and graphene oxide makes an effective filter to separate carbon dioxide from nitrogen gas. |
Chemistry World November 15, 2006 Michael Gross |
Nanoribbons Put Electrons in a Spin A small ribbon made of the carbon honeycomb pattern found in graphite and nanotubes could display intriguing electronic properties and serve as a material for spin-based electronics (spintronics), researchers have predicted. |
Chemistry World November 7, 2013 Polly Wilson |
Hydrogen adopts alkali metal position For the first time, scientists have shown that hydrogen can stand in for alkali metals in typical alkali metal structures. |
Chemistry World May 11, 2012 Simon Perks |
Gas separation with graphene nanopores Scientists in New Zealand, the US and Germany have developed a way of using tiny pores in a graphene sheet to separate different isotopes of helium. |
Chemistry World June 10, 2010 Carol Stainer |
Hot tip makes light work of graphene circuit US researchers have 'drawn' tiny conductive lines on an insulating graphene oxide surface using the heated tip of an atomic force microscope that changes the local chemistry of the surface. |
Chemistry World July 25, 2008 Simon Hadlington |
Structure of hydrogen splitting enzyme revealed Scientists in Germany have brought the prospect of generating cheap electricity from hydrogen a step closer by taking a snapshot of an elusive enzyme that can split the gas as efficiently as a platinum catalyst. |
Chemistry World February 13, 2006 Katharine Sanderson |
Storing up High Hopes for Hydrogen Economy Polymer scientists have joined the race to store hydrogen as fuel. Their breakthrough could help make the hydrogen economy a reality, they claim. |