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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 25, 2012 Kate McAlpine	Conjuring graphene oxide from thin air Researchers on the hunt for a better way to recycle carbon dioxide have turned it into graphene oxide.
Chemistry World July 18, 2006 Katharine Sanderson	Membranes Weed Out Carbon Dioxide Chemical membranes that can capture the carbon dioxide emitted by fossil fuels have been developed by scientists, who say that they are substantially more efficient than conventional membranes.
Chemistry World November 20, 2012 James Mitchell Crow	'Molecular trapdoor' opens only for CO 2 A family of nanoporous materials well known for their gas separation properties can sort molecules with much more sophistication than previously thought.
Chemistry World May 9, 2013 Emma Stoye	Understanding defects in graphene The products of thermally exfoliating graphite oxide to make graphene are much more complex than previously thought, new research shows.
Chemistry World June 17, 2012 Harriet Brewerton	Back to carbon black Scientists in Singapore have discovered the potential of a readily available material that could be used to replace expensive graphene analogues in a wide range of electrochemical processes.
Chemistry World July 5, 2009 Simon Hadlington	Novel chemical approach to graphene Researchers in the US have devised a new way to create graphene - sheets of carbon one atom thick that have extraordinary electronic properties - based upon a detailed understanding of the chemical structure of an important precursor of the material, graphite oxide.
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.
Chemistry World October 12, 2012 Jon Cartwright	An ultralight graphene structure for all seasons Chemists in China claim to have created the lightest graphene framework to date. The material, which is light enough to rest on a dandelion seed head, is also fire resistant and has record-breaking adsorption and capacitance.
Chemistry World July 30, 2007 Simon Hadlington	Graphene Sensor Achieves Ultimate Sensitivity An international team of researchers has achieved the ultimate in sensitivity - a gas sensor capable of detecting a single molecule. The sensor is based on graphene, a sheet of carbon a single atom thick.
Chemistry World June 20, 2010 Simon Hadlington	First graphene touchscreen Researchers in Korea and Japan have fabricated films of graphene - planar sheets of carbon one atom thick - measuring tens of centimetres.
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 October 11, 2007 Jonathan Edwards	'Tuneable' Polymer Can Separate Anything An international team of scientists have made a polymer with pores which can be fine-tuned to speedily separate different small molecules -- with applications ranging from carbon capture to fuel cells.
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 October 5, 2010 Phillip Broadwith	Graphene scoops the physics Nobel This year's Nobel prize for physics has been awarded to Andre Geim and Kostya Novoselov for the discovery of graphene - single-atom-thick layers of carbon.
Chemistry World January 25, 2007 Tom Westgate	Graphene Resonator Drums up Interest Scientists have created a one-atom-thick membrane that resonates like a drumskin. No sign of a nano-drumstick though: the researchers 'beat' the drum with a voltage or a laser matched to the natural resonant frequency of the graphene sheet.
Chemistry World July 6, 2015 Tim Wogan	Novel compounds make light work of trapping carbon dioxide A new set of compounds that can be reversibly switched between crystalline and amorphous isomers by light has been developed by researchers in Italy.
Chemistry World May 7, 2008 Lewis Brindley	Super-sized molecular sponges boost carbon capture Super-sized molecular sponges that trap and store carbon dioxide have been unveiled by chemists in the US.
Scientific American February 2009 Steven Ashley	Graphene Electronics Inches Closer to Mass Production These carbon nanosheets are considered the future of smaller, faster and cheaper electronics
Chemistry World June 19, 2015	Graphene beyond the hype For the past 10 years, graphene has popped up in many headlines. Emma Stoye looks at whether current progress matches up to the promises.
Reactive Reports Issue 63 David Bradley	Natural Copy Cat While plants convert carbon dioxide into sugar and oxygen, chemists are having a more difficult time finding an efficient method for converting carbon dioxide into useful fuels.
IEEE Spectrum November 2010 Sinitskii & Tour	Graphene Electronics, Unzipped By unrolling tiny carbon tubes, you can produce superthin sheets with truly extraordinary electronic properties
Chemistry World June 9, 2009 Simon Hadlington	Super sponges soak up gas Researchers in the US have shown that a recently discovered class of compound based on light elements can store gas at least as efficiently as the most promising metal organic framework candidates.
Chemistry World September 3, 2013 William Bergius	Better separations with more permeable membranes There is usually a trade-off between selectivity and liquid permeability when making an ultrafiltration membrane but new research from scientists in the US suggests this doesn't have to be the case.
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.
Geotimes December 2006 Fred Schwab	Why Fester? Let's Sequester! Instead of looking toward another fossil fuel-based energy choice, scientists need to examine carbon dioxide sequestering, the capture and storage technology that removes anthropogenic carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.
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 March 15, 2012 Jon Cartwright	DVD player burns graphene to disc Chemists in the US have used a standard DVD player to reduce films of graphite oxide to graphene.
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
The Motley Fool July 20, 2006 Anders Bylund	Word of the Day: Sequestration GE and BP work together to stem global warming. These global giants certainly have the scale and resources to make it happen.
Chemistry World August 7, 2007 Simon Hadlington	The Burning Issue In an effort to clean up fossil-fuel power stations, scientists have completed a project to create ceramic straws that can produce a stream of pure oxygen from air.
Chemistry World July 7, 2013 Anthony King	Green graphene band-aid Scientists have revealed that graphene kills bacteria by slicing through their membranes and yanking out their phospholipids. They say graphene could become a new type of 'green' antimicrobial material for everyday use.
Chemistry World April 3, 2014 Tim Wogan	Growing great graphene on germanium Macroscopic films of monolayer, single crystalline graphene free of the defects that dog other production methods have been grown on germanium.
Reactive Reports November 2007 David Bradley	Cats Don't Work Like That Scientists have discovered that the three-way catalytic converter in your car converts carbon monoxide into carbon dioxide in two reaction steps, instead of a single step as previously thought.
Chemistry World August 2, 2013 Jennifer Newton	If everything is chemistry then I need to do chemistry Cafer Yavuz is a professor at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology in Daejeon. His groups design and make new materials from oxide and organic building blocks to offer sustainable solutions for energy and environmental issues.
Chemistry World May 14, 2015 Tim Wogan	Graphene-wrapped diamond ball bearings cut friction to virtually nothing A method that reduces friction between two surfaces to almost zero on macroscopic scales has been demonstrated by US researchers.
Chemistry World March 7, 2014 Elinor Richards	Shortcut to carbon dioxide plastics holds sequestration promise Japanese scientists have cleared a significant hurdle in using carbon dioxide as a chemical feedstock and made a polymer that contains almost a third of the gas by weight.
Chemistry World August 11, 2014 Emma Stoye	Swellable polymer sponges up CO 2 A porous polymer 'sponge' that absorbs carbon dioxide by swelling up has been developed by scientists in the UK.
Chemistry World April 22, 2014 Tim Wogan	Graphene made in a kitchen blender Suspensions of high quality graphene can be produced quickly and cheaply using a common industrial mixer, researchers in Ireland have discovered.
Chemistry World May 27, 2014 Jennifer Newton	Flue gas reclaimed as polymer feedstock The first systematic environmental assessment of an industrial plant that produces polyols from carbon dioxide has revealed that they significantly reduce both carbon dioxide emissions and the demand on fossil fuel reserves.
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 April 5, 2012 Simon Hadlington	Graphene puts wet chemistry under the microscope Scientists in the US and Korea have shown that the single-atom thick carbon membrane can be used as a cover slip for an electron microscope to allow atomic-resolution observations of wet chemistry - something that is notoriously tricky to achieve.
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 September 19, 2014 Hugh Cowley	Quintuple bond activates small stable molecules The activation of carbon dioxide, sulfur dioxide and nitrous oxide by a quintuply bonded dichromium complex has been reported by a team of researchers from Germany.
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.
Science News May 9, 2009	Science Past From The Issue Of May 9, 1959 Scientists predict 25% increase in carbon dioxide by the year 2000.
Reactive Reports David Bradley	Subjective Suboxide Carbon monoxide and carbon dioxide are probably the best known molecules containing just carbon and oxygen, but they do form others, such as carbon suboxide (C3O2), which is one of the most stable.
Chemistry World April 4, 2012 Harriet Brewerton	Speeding up wound healing Scientists in China have developed a material that reduces the time required for a skin wound to heal.
Chemistry World October 5, 2007 Richard Van Noorden	Air, Can we Have Our Carbon Back? Sucking carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere to reduce greenhouse gas emissions is outlandishly expensive. But a US scientist who has just worked out how to improve its efficiency predicts it will be necessary before the end of the century.
Chemistry World September 8, 2011 Jon Cartwright	Wonder material not so wonderful Contrary to the widely held view, chemists think graphene electrodes are mostly ineffective at transferring electrons, implying that graphene is a poor choice for sensing applications.