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The Graphene Flagship Launched

The Graphene Flagship – one of Europe’s first ten-year, €1bn flagships in Future and Emerging Technologies – has been launched.

15 Oct 2013

New Report on Global and China Graphene Industry

Reportlinker.com announces that a new market research report is available in its catalogue: Global and China Graphene Industry Report, 2012-2015

11 Oct 2013

Artificial Cell Membranes can be Written on Graphene Using Lipid Dip-Pen Nanolithography

Graphene emerges as a versatile new surface to assemble model cell membranes mimicking those in the human body, with potential for applications in sensors for understanding biological processes, disease detection and drug screening.

11 Oct 2013

New Research Report on Graphene Technologies, Applications and Markets

Reportlinker.com announces that a new market research report is available in its catalogue: Graphene: Technologies, Applications and Markets

10 Oct 2013

Nanoropes of Carbyne, if Manufactured, Would be Stronger than Graphene

Carbyne will be the strongest of a new class of microscopic materials if and when anyone can make it in bulk.

10 Oct 2013

Thin Silicon Film Coating Does Not Affect Graphene’s Impressive Properties

Graphene has extreme conductivity and is completely transparent while being inexpensive and nontoxic. This makes it a perfect candidate material for transparent contact layers for use in solar cells to conduct electricity without reducing the amount of incoming light - at least in theory.

9 Oct 2013

Manchester Bestows Freedom of the City Honor on Graphene Pioneers

Sir Andre Geim and Sir Kostya Novoselov are to be awarded the Honorary Freedom of the City of Manchester for their groundbreaking work on the material graphene on Wednesday 9 October.

9 Oct 2013

OU to Acquire Veeco’s New GENxplor R&D Molecular Beam Epitaxy System

Veeco Instruments Inc. announced today that the University of Oklahoma (OU) will receive the first shipment of Veeco’s new GENxplor™ R&D Molecular Beam Epitaxy (MBE) System early in the fourth quarter. The GENxplor is a fully integrated deposition system that creates high quality epitaxial layers on substrates up to 3” in diameter and is ideal for cutting edge research on a wide variety of materials including GaAs, nitrides, and oxides.

From Veeco 7 Oct 2013

Nano-Thin Hexagonal Boron Nitride Films Protect Metals at Ultrahigh Temperatures

Atomically thin sheets of hexagonal boron nitride (h-BN) have the handy benefit of protecting what’s underneath from oxidizing even at very high temperatures, Rice University researchers have discovered.

7 Oct 2013

STC Ukraine Approves American Graphite’s Study on Nanocarbon Materials for 3D Printing

American Graphite Technologies Inc. ("AGIN" or the "Company") announces receipt of final approval from the Science and Technology Centre Ukraine (STCU) for the startup of its project, dubbed P600. The project was granted live status on October 1, 2013.

7 Oct 2013