Today's Tech News: Notable or Not?

https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1083267 "incredibly strong for being so thin... easily bends/ snaps on itself making fabrication nearly impossible, overcome using scalable, fast/ efficient method: cheap solvent ammonium cholate gentle starting material used for growing carbyne at much lower temperature, then encased in single-walled carbon nanotube protective shell keeping it stable... low cost/ high yield... doesn't bond to nanotube walls... excitable quantum materials, which could lead to entirely new technologies... computing, nanotechnology"

https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1075626 "heat removes protective polymer coatings from carbon fibers... exfoliate carbon fibers using electrochemical oxidation in water/ 5% nitric acid as conductor, nanoscale graphene oxide layers peel off, with uniform 0.9 nm thick circular/ elliptical nanosheets, 200 mg/ gram carbon fiber... yields 1-atom-thick sheets of graphene oxide with characteristics comparable to that sourced from mined graphite... no harsh chemicals, variations in graphite purity... EV batteries, composites, water purification. electronic devices" Related: Catalytic Graphitization Breakthrough Could Revolutionize Synthetic Graphite Production https://innovation.tamus.edu/catalytic-graphitization-breakthrough-could-revolutionize-synthetic-graphite-production/ Biogenic glycerol catalytic conversion into acrylonitrile, the key raw material for carbon fiber production https://www.tum.de/en/news-and-events/all-news/press-releases/details/sustainable-carbon-fiber...

https://phys.org/news/2025-02-graphyne-carbon-potential-electronics.html "predicted to be semiconductor with band gap, ultra-high charge carrier mobility far surpassing that of silicon, ultimate strength comparable to graphene... completely eliminates all 2-coordinate acetylenic carbons from graphyne, yet preserves layered structure... modified band gap... enables future techniques for fabricating all-carbon electronic chips with performance unattainable by the current silicon technology... carbon electronics, energy harvesting/ storage, gas separations, catalysis"

https://news.cornell.edu/stories/2024/12/rocket-inspired-reaction-yields-carbon-record-surface-area "sucrose and template material shape/ structure carbon... reactions occurring spontaneously when certain chemicals mix, releasing rapid, intense energy burst (ignites), forming carbon tubes with high concentration of reactive molecular rings of 5 carbon atoms, instead of typical 6... add microscopic pores, metastable configuration prevening lowest energy state... captures 99% its total capacity in 2 minutes... 60 watt-hours/ liter energy density, 4X better... supercapacitors, electrocatalysts, pollution capture, energy storage" Related: High-energy manganese diboride compound to fuel space flight https://www.albany.edu/news-center/news/2025-ualbany-chemists-create-new-high-energy-compound-fuel-space-flight

https://www.businesskorea.co.kr/news/articleView.html?idxno=230214 "easily applied using eco-friendly dry process... overcomes clumping/ entangling that does not mix well with other materials, by converting into powder enabling high-performance conductivity... applications to high-capacity thick-film anodes/ cathodes... low production costs, no toxic solvents, patented... more efficient, durable, and eco-friendly battery materials, which are essential for the growth of renewable energy and electric vehicles"

https://techxplore.com/news/2024-09-supercapacitor-molecular-coating-approach.html "carbon nanotubes increase surface area, capacity, but large-scale production not cost-effective... 2.4X increased capacity to 907 F/gAC by sprinkling iron azaphthalocyanine onto activated carbon, enabling molecular level adsorbtion, utilizing redox capabilities... 20K charge-discharge cycles even in high-load regions of 20 A/gAC, powering LEDs... same capacitor can be reused many more times... significantly less toxic than batteries... increase capacity to level of CNT supercapacitors using cheaper materials" Related: Phytic acid–driven structural engineering unlocks high-performance lignin-based carbon aerogel supercapacitors https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1114539

https://phys.org/news/2024-08-nanotubes-boost-liquid-phase-synthesis.html "liquid-phase cobalt and iridium nanoparticle catalyst synthesis... production efficiency, scalability, yield, structural integrity, better control over reaction environment... catalysts retain effectiveness through multiple cycles lowering costs... iridium catalysts allow precise nanotube diameter/ chiral adjustment... high-performance transistors, sensitive sensors, electronics, flexible displays, cutting-edge batteries, future: adapted synthesizing different nanostructures"

https://phys.org/news/2024-08-repurposing-pencil-optical-material-plasma.html "various structural colors/ invisible characters only seen using IR camera... thin-layer interference between clay and graphite, the components of pencil lead... irradiating pencil lead with plasma, an electrically charged gaseous state, for extended periods of time resulted in optics causing interference in near/ mid-IR due to larger thickness of clay layer exposed by plasma etching... eco-friendly, cheaper: sensing, OLED displays, telecommunications, cancer treatment, new/ sustainable printing technologies"

https://phys.org/news/2024-06-chain-copper-carbon-atoms-thinnest.html "1-D nanowires/ nanotubes... alternative to difficult to manufacture/ control carbon nanotubes... held together by van der Waals forces... CuC2 stable at 0 K, thinnest straight-line chain metallic nanowire... exfoliated requiring little energy from any of 3 parent crystals, its chain bendable while preserving metallic properties, helpful for flexible electronics... also, semi-metal Sb2Te2 excitonic insulator where quantum phenomena becomes visible at macroscopic scale... microelectronics, biosensors, catalysis" Related: Carbon nanotubes study finds local solvation is decisive for fluorescence of biosensors https://phys.org/news/2024-08-carbon-nanotubes-local-solvation-decisive.html How to train your catalyst, one atom at a time https://phys.org/news/2026-03-catalyst-atom.html Carbon nanotubes are closing the gap on copper conductivity https://phys.org/news/2026-04-carbon-nanotubes-gap-copper.html

https://phys.org/news/2023-03-tubular-nanomaterial-carbon-ideal-home.html "record long coherence times, 10 μs, for qubits, which defines number of quantum operations... carbon atoms have hollow tubular shape and 1 nm thickness... easily integrated into quantum devices and permits many possible ways to read out the quantum information. Also, the carbon tubes are very flexible and their vibrations can be used to store information from the qubit"

https://phys.org/news/2023-01-newly-carbon-graphene-superatomic-cousin.html "a new 2D carbon... layers of linked fullerenes peeled into ultrathin thin flakes from a larger graphullerite crystal somewhere between fullerene and graphene... incredibly modular 60 carbon atoms in the ball to work with, fullerenes can theoretically be linked together in a number of different ways, each of which could yield different electronic, magnetic, and optical properties... discoveries of both graphene and fullerenes were incredibly impactful; will be interesting to see applications for combination of both" Related: Discovery of a new form of carbon called Long-range Ordered Porous Carbon (LOPC) https://www.ibs.re.kr/cop/bbs/BBSMSTR_000000000738/selectBoardArticle.do?nttId=22427&pageIndex=1&searchCnd=&searchWrd= Discovery of a crucial clue to accelerate the development of carbon-neutral porous materials https://phys.org/news/2023-04-discovery-crucial-clue-carbon-neutral-porous.htm...

https://phys.org/news/2022-06-member-added-carbon-material-family.html "interlayer bonding cleavage strategy to prepare a two-dimensional monolayer polymeric fullerene... magnesium intercalated C60 bulk crystals precursor exfoliation reaction... ligand-assisted cation exchange strategy cleave interlayer bonds into bulk crystals... monolayer polymeric C60... single crystal X-ray diffraction and scanning transmission electron microscopy... cluster cages C60 covalently bonded forming topology distinct from conventional 2D... monolayer polymeric C60... bandgap 1.6 eV" Related: A fullerene-like molecule made entirely of metal atoms https://phys.org/news/2023-11-fullerene-like-molecule-metal-atoms.html Low-symmetry coordination cages enable sensitive recognition and selective enrichment of higher fullerene isomers https://phys.org/news/2025-01-symmetry-cages-enable-sensitive-recognition.html Fullerene emerges as an efficient, metal-free catalyst for clean energy https://phys.org/ne...

https://phys.org/news/2022-05-long-hypothesized-material.html "Creating graphyne is a "really old, long-standing question, but since the synthetic tools were limited, the interest went down... alkyne metathesis... organic reaction entails redistribution, or cutting and reforming, of alkyne chemical bonds (a type of hydrocarbon with at least one carbon-carbon triple covalent bond)—as well as thermodynamics and kinetic control, the group was able to successfully create what had never been created before: A material that could rival the conductivity of graphene but with control"

https://vtx.vt.edu/articles/2021/09/cals-powered-food-waste.html "uses highly tunable, abundant, and cost-effective raw materials... waste-derived carbon materials as the host for metal anodes could significantly reduce alkali metal usage per battery... can modify the composition of the food... could take the proteins and lipids out, along with some of the minerals, to see how it impacts battery performance... the essential compounds of cellulose, hemicelluloses, and lignin after thermal treatment could sufficiently work for a battery" See also:  Healable carbon fiber composite offers path to long-lasting, sustainable materials https://www.me.washington.edu/news/article/2021-11-03/healable-carbon-fiber-composite Related: Here’s how food waste can generate clean energy https://www.happetizo.com/2022/03/heres-how-food-waste-can-generate-clean Study proposes profitable ways to repurpose industrial waste https://news.osu.edu/spinning-food-processing-waste-into-gold/ New method ex...