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Fullerenes: An Overview 

Peter Unwin Fullerenes (An Overview) Introduction The 1996 Nobel Prize for Chemistry has been won by Harold W. Kroto, Robert F. Curl and Richard E. Smalley ... for their discovery in 1985 of a new allotrope of carbon, in which the atoms are arranged in closed shells. The new form was found to have the structure of a truncated icosahedron, and was named Buckminsterfullerene, after the architect Buckminster Fuller who designed geodesic domes in the 1960's. Formerly, six crystalline forms of the element carbon were known, namely two kinds of graphite, two kinds of diamond, chaoit and carbon(VI). The latter two were discovered in 1968 and 1972. In 1990 physicists W. Krätschmer and D.R. Huffman for the first time produced isolable quantities of C60 by causing an arc between two graphite rods to burn in a helium atmosphere and extracting the carbon condensate so formed using an organic solvent. The way was thus open for studying the chemical properties of C60 and other carbon clusters such as C7   [More...] [Less...]

Carbonfund.org | Offset your emissions, fight global warming 

Copyright 2003-2008. ZeroCarbon, CarbonFree, and 'Reduce What You Can, Offset What You Can't' are trademarks of the Carbonfund.org Foundation. 1320 Fenwick ... Lane Suite 206 • Silver Spring, MD 20910 • (240) 293-2700 • a 501(c)(3) charitable, nonprofit organization • EIN: 20-0231609   [More...] [Less...]

Carbon Nanotubes 

Carbon nanotube science and technology Carbon nanotubes are molecular-scale tubes of graphitic carbon with outstanding properties. They are among the stiffest ... and strongest fibres known, and have remarkable electronic properties and many other unique characteristics. For these reasons they have attracted huge academic and industrial interest, with thousands of papers on nanotubes being published every year. Commercial applications have been rather slow to develop, however, primarily because of the high production costs of the best quality nanotubes. History The current huge interest in carbon nanotubes is a direct consequence of the synthesis of buckminsterfullerene, C 60 , and other fullerenes, in 1985. The discovery that carbon could form stable, ordered structures other than graphite and diamond stimulated researchers worldwide to search for other new forms of carbon. The search was given new impetus when it was shown in 1990 that C 60 could be produced in a simple arc-evaporation a   [More...] [Less...]

Carbon nanotube - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 

The ( n , m ) nanotube naming scheme can be thought of as a vector ( C h ) in an infinite graphene sheet that describes how to "roll up" the graphene sheet ... to make the nanotube. T denotes the tube axis, and a 1 and a 2 are the unit vectors of graphene in real space.   [More...] [Less...]

Physical Properties of Carbon Nanotubes 

George Monbiot: Carbon capture is turning out to be just another great green scam | Comment is free | The Guardian 

Carbon capture is turning out to be just another great green scam Cleaner technology is possible, but Labour plans to introduce it so slowly that any benefits ... will be lost in higher coal output 'Coal is so clean and fresh that the prime minister brushes his teeth with it, Downing Street said last night. Mr Brown said advances in coal technology meant it was now one of the cleanest substances on Earth, and an unrivalled remover of stains and scaling." So says the satirical website the Daily Mash. The real claims are scarcely battier. Ministers are about to decide whether to approve a new coal-burning power station at Kingsnorth in Kent. This would be the first such plant to be built in Britain since the monster at Drax was finished in 1986. As well as coal, it will burn up the government's targets, policies and promises on climate change. John Hutton, the secretary of state in charge of energy, has started justifying the decision he says he hasn't made. "For critics," he argued last wee   [More...] [Less...]

Progress towards building the zero carbon footprint building – a review - The IET 

This is a new event in response to the announcement of zero stamp duty on zero carbon homes and the increasing demand for low and zero carbon buildings. ... Key speakers: Martin Wheatley, Programme Director, Environment and Planning, Local Government Association, UK Dr David Strong, Chief Executive, Inbuilt Consulting Ltd, UK Key benefits: Provide delegates with an overview of current thinking in this sector, gaining an insight into policy implementation, emerging technologies, practical application and consumer benefits Look into how we plan to achieve zero carbon homes by 2016, and question what policies will begin to deliver a zero carbon housing stock, and over what timescale. Review and present novel engineering solutions to provide low and ultimately zero carbon buildings. This seminar will provide delegates with the opportunity to: Be briefed on the current thinking in this sector Network with the people tasked with delivering low carbon buildings Debate future prospects in this are   [More...] [Less...]

Low Carbon Vehicle Partnership | Biofuels, Electric Cars & Hydrogen Fuel Cells 

Welcome The Low Carbon Vehicle Partnership is an action and advisory group, established in 2003 to take a lead in accelerating the shift to low carbon ... vehicles and fuels in the UK and to help ensure that UK business can benefit from that shift. The LowCVP is a partnership of over 280 organisations from the automotive and fuel industries, the environmental sector, government, academia, road user groups and other organisations with a stake in the low carbon vehicles and fuels agenda.   [More...] [Less...]

Engineering: At the centre of society - The IET 

Outline Engineering is at the centre of society. Engineering has shaped the way that we live and the world that we live in. But there is no doubt that ... engineering has contributed to some of the most pressing problems faced by society. The most critical of these is climate change, the result of our use of carbon-based energy in transport, homes and industry. Tackling these problems requires engineering ingenuity and skill. It requires the individual engineer to be at the centre of society, focusing on the practical, pressing problems of today. The challenge for engineer is to find ways of reducing our energy consumption and to produce energy by means that minimise the production of greenhouse gases and limit other negative environmental effects. The engineer of the future will be required to develop a broad set of skills to tackle these issues – both the technical skills to produce engineering solutions and a wider set of skills to understand the issues facing society. In this lecture,   [More...] [Less...]

ETI | Energy Technologies Institute 

Welcome The Energy Technologies Institute is a UK based company formed from global industries and the UK government. We bring together projects that create ... affordable, reliable, clean energy for heat, power and transport. The ETI will demonstrate technologies, develop knowledge, skills and supply-chains, inform the development of regulation, standards and policy, and so accelerate the deployment of affordable, secure low-carbon energy systems from 2020 to 2050. Read more about our Technology Programmes   [More...] [Less...]