{"id":465069,"date":"2017-04-03T10:49:08","date_gmt":"2017-04-03T10:49:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/?p=465069"},"modified":"2017-04-03T10:49:08","modified_gmt":"2017-04-03T10:49:08","slug":"this-firm-may-make-coals-future-a-lot-brighter-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/?p=465069","title":{"rendered":"This firm may make coal\u2019s future a lot brighter"},"content":{"rendered":"

By analyst<\/a><\/span> <\/p>\n

By Cecilia Jamasmie<\/a><\/span> <\/p>\n

Australia’s Dotz Nano (ASX:DTZ), a nanotechnology firm focus on creating quantum dots \u2014 an innovation that can make TVs brighter and counterfeiting harder \u2014 has just found a hot new use for coal.<\/p>\n

The company, which changed its name in November from Northern Iron after raising A$6 million (about $4.56 million) from a public offer, said it has found a way to extract nanoparticles able to absorb light and emit specific colors based on their wavelength, from coal.<\/p>\n

If successful, the new use for coal could be a welcome boost to the dying industry, particularly in the US.<\/p>\n

Until now, graphene<\/a> quantum dots (GQDs) were extracted mostly from graphite, which made the production process very expensive, difficult, and due to the presence of cadmium, even toxic.<\/p>\n

Dotz Nano’s chief executive, Moti Gross, told CNBC Monday<\/a> that his company has developed a process that allows extracting quantum dots from coal, which is less expensive and makes it very cost effective for use in a variety of applications, he claimed.<\/p>\n

The company is not the first to try turning coal into GQDs. Scientists at Rice University, in Houston, Texas, have also been working<\/a> on producing the microscopic discs of atom-thick graphene oxide in bulk from coal. The team’s first findings were published in 2013 in the journal Nature Communications<\/a>.<\/p>\n

If successful, the new use for coal could be a welcome boost to the dying industry, particularly in the US, where jobs are extremely unlikely to come back, according to several industry experts<\/a>. In fact, a recent study shows that solar power has become a major generator of employment in the US, surpassing both the coal and natural gas sectors.<\/a><\/p>\n

The post This firm may make coal’s future a lot brighter<\/a> appeared first on MINING.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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