A Breakthrough in Graphene-Based Water Filtration

A Breakthrough in Graphene-Based Water Filtration

Two new graphene-related developments this year — one by Brown University researchers in January and another by MIT researchers in August — showed that this one-atom-thick layer of carbon might offer promise as a means of water filtration. And if it...
Are NFTs Worth the Environmental Cost?

Are NFTs Worth the Environmental Cost?

Not that any further proof was needed, but the night of March 27, 2021 offered definitive evidence of the impact non-fungible tokens (NFTs) are making — that besides transforming the world of digital art, they are even veering toward the mainstream. On that...
What Makes a Great Nanomaterial?

What Makes a Great Nanomaterial?

By this point, we have discovered a slew of natural, incidental, and artificial nanomaterials with a wide variety of properties and capabilities. Particularly prominent are graphene and borophene — i.e., one-atom-thick layers of graphite and boron, respectively...