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Alchemist Newsletter

January 27, 2013 – 4:32 pm

The Alchemist learns of new superomniphobic materials this week that almost make the proverbial duck's back look sticky as they repel every liquid so far tested not just water. In environmental news, weighing up the toxic metals against the power savings for "green" lightbulbs while polymer chemists are mimicking mussels to make things stick. In the world of biofuels, Indian scientists suggest that tree seeds might be the most sustainable feedstock, while Swiss researchers boost solar energy efficiency with a new application of semiconductor. Finally, a "Nobel Prize" for two geo scientists.

via The Alchemist Newsletter:Jan 23, 2013 — Welcome to ChemWeb.

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Using graphene, internet connection speeds could be tens of times faster

September 1, 2011 – 3:00 pm
  • Using graphene, internet connection speeds could be tens of times faster - Writing in the journal Nature Communications ("Strong plasmonic enhancement of photovoltage in graphene"), a collaboration between the Universities of Manchester and Cambridge, which includes Nobel Prize winning scientists Professor Andre Geim and Professor Kostya Novoselov, has discovered a crucial recipe for improving characteristics of graphene devices for use as photodetectors in future high-speed optical communications. By combining graphene with metallic nanostructures, they show a twentyfold enhancement in harvesting light by graphene, which paves the way for advances in high-speed internet and other communications.
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