A group of researchers from the Netherlands has proven scientifically, for the first time, that graphite can be a permanent magnet at room temperature. The find could have significant implications for new types of electronic devices, nanostructures, and various types of regular and bio-sensors, the team reports. The ... |
5 October 2009
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Experts from the Rice University have recently announced new progress in nanotechnology research. They found a new way of using graphite, a basic carbon compound that makes up the inside of pencils, as a reprogrammable gate array. This could bring about a revolution in integrated-circuit logic design, which could, in... |
10 September 2009
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Experts at the Northwestern University (NU) have recently announced that they managed to discover a way of transforming an average insulating material into a conductor, using nothing more than an average camera flash. The low-cost insulator made by oxidizing graphite powder, known as graphite oxide, was through this ... |
13 August 2009
05:54 GMT |
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Android fans in the UK have now a reason to rejoice, as wireless carrier Orange will start shipping the HTC Hero as soon as tomorrow, Thursday, July 23. The handset is the third phone coming from the Taiwanese mobile phone maker HTC Corporation with the Google Android operating system loaded on it, and it is reported... |
22 July 2009
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For quite some time now, people have looked at diamonds as being the most tough, naturally occurring materials on Earth. But that wisdom is about to be challenged by a mathematical model, which says that a new, exotic form of carbon has the ability to break the ultra-tough inner structure of the diamond. And, beyond ... |
13 May 2009
02:14 GMT |
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Danger Room reports Taiwan is secretly working on a blackout bomb designed to...well… wipe out China's electrical system. The news was also in United Daily News, which claimed Taiwan is working hard on a graphite bomb, similar to the one used by the US Army troops in Serbia.Taiwannews detailed the original repor... |
24 October 2007
05:37 GMT |
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Almost as hard as diamond, no carbon inside!The name diamond derives from the ancient Greek "adamas", meaning invincible, and have been treasured as gemstones since their use as religious icons in ancient India and in engraving tools in early human history.They are especially renowned due to their superlative physic... |
29 March 2007
08:43 GMT |
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