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- 'Smart water' may aid oil recovery
Scientists at Rice University's Brown School of Engineering show that microscopic saltwater droplets emulsify crude oil when each has the right composition. Understanding how they combine is import...
- Nanoscale solution to 'produced water' problem
Oil and water tend to separate, but they mix well enough to form stable oil-in-water emulsions in produced water from oil reservoirs to become a problem. Rice University scientists have developed a... - New process could slash energy demands of fertilizer, nitrogen-based chemicals
Manufacturers currently make fertilizer, pharmaceuticals and other industrial chemicals by pulling nitrogen from the air and combining it with hydrogen. Nitrogen gas is plentiful, making up about 7...
- Boron nitride foam soaks up carbon dioxide
Rice University materials scientists have created a light foam from two-dimensional sheets of hexagonal-boron nitride (h-BN) that absorbs carbon dioxide. They discovered freeze-drying h-BN turne... - Treated carbon pulls radioactive elements from water
Researchers at Rice University and Kazan Federal University in Russia have found a way to extract radioactivity from water and said their discovery could help purify the hundreds of millions of gal...
- Decontamination of nanotubes by microwaves
Amid all the fancy equipment found in a typical nanomaterials lab, one of the most useful may turn out to be the humble microwave oven. A standard kitchen microwave proved effective as part of a tw...
- Study shows plasmonic sensors and catalysts need not be mutually exclusive
Nanoscale octopods that do double duty as catalysts and plasmonic sensors are lighting a path toward more efficient industrial processes, according to a Rice University scientist. Catalysts are ...
- Award for characterizing mechanical and chemical interactions
Samet Varol has been awarded with the Gold prize in the "Young Scientist Lecture Competition Award" for his lecture about the relation between chemical and mechanical properties of nanocomposites a...