Rice University’s hydrogen sulfide nanoreporters gather
intel on oil before pumping
Scientists at Rice University have created a nanoscale
detector that checks for and reports on the presence of hydrogen sulfide in
crude oil and natural gas while they’re still in the ground.
The nanoreporter is based on nanometer-sized carbon material
developed by a consortium of Rice labs led by chemist James Tour and is the
subject of a new paper published this month in the American Chemical Society
journal ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces.