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New Graphene Quilt Cooling Technique for High-Power Semiconductor Devices

A research team from the University of California, Riverside Bourns College of Engineering has developed a cooling technique using graphene multilayers to remove heat from gallium nitride, a semiconductor material utilized in various applications ranging from electric cars to traffic lights.

From University of California at Riverside 10 May 2012

Nano-factory promises great things for graphene science

Forty times stronger than steel and conducting electricity ten times better than silicon, graphene is the wonder material that could one day replace silicon in microchips. Now the University of Bath is opening a new Graphene Centre Laboratory that will study its amazing properties and develop its potential applications.

2 May 2012

Researchers Discover New Graphene-Based Material for Conducting Electricity

A University of Exeter team has discovered a lightweight, flexible and transparent material for conducting electricity.

30 Apr 2012

Angstron Materials Names Digichem Corporation Exclusive Distributor for Korea

Angstron Materials Inc. has named Digichem Corporation, Anyang City, Korea, its distribution partner for Korea. Digichem, a management innovation enterprise, specializes in exporting chemical ingredients and intermediates for markets that include paint and coatings, adhesives, automotive, electronics, pharmaceutical, printing and packaging and film conversion.

From Global Graphene Group 26 Apr 2012

Researchers Use Graphene to Increase Efficiency of Next-Generation Solar Cells

A team of material scientists at the Michigan Technological University has discovered that graphene can improve the conversion efficiency of next-generation photovoltaic cells.

26 Apr 2012

Bismuth-Antimony Films Offer Potential Applications in Thermoelectric Devices

Graphene has been extensively researched for its unusual mechanical, optical and electronic characteristics. Now, scientists from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have discovered another compound that exhibits most of the graphene’s properties and in certain cases displays complementary characteristics.

From Massachusetts Institute of Technology 25 Apr 2012

New Graphene Technique for Electron Microscopy Studies of Nanocrystal Growth

A team of researchers from the University of California (UC) Berkeley and the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) has devised a technique that allows the encapsulation of nanocrystal liquids between graphene layers, to take images of chemical reactions occurring in liquid media at an atomic-scale resolution using an electron microscope.

From Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory 21 Apr 2012

Scientists Create Prototype of 2D Graphene Electron Lens

An international team of scientists from the French National Center for Scientific Research and the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology in Germany has developed a new prototype lens using graphene.

20 Apr 2012

Researchers Develop Graphene Liquid Cell for TEM Imaging of Nanoscale Processes in Liquid

A research team comprising Jeong Yong Lee and Jong Min Yuk from the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), together with research groups of Paul Alivisatos and Alex Zettl from the University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley) has devised a technique to study processes taking place in liquid media on a scale below 1 nm.

12 Apr 2012

XG Sciences to Develop High-Energy Ultracapacitors for Air Force Research Laboratory

XG Sciences, a supplier of energy storage electrode materials, has announced that the Air Force Research Laboratory has selected the company to develop advanced ultrahigh-energy ultracapacitors for space energy storage systems.

From NanoXplore Inc. 11 Apr 2012