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Northern Graphite’s High-Carbon Graphite to be Used for Graphene Study

Northern Graphite has consented to deliver its +32 mesh and +48 mesh extra-large-flake, high- carbon graphite to Grafen Chemical Industries for use in graphene research.

From Grafen Chemical Industries 4 Feb 2012

Novel Method for Measuring Graphene’s Electronic and Optical Behavior

A research team comprising Leonhard Prechtel and Leonhard Prechtel from the Technische Universitaet Muenchen’s Walter Schottky Institut has devised a method to improve the time resolution down to the picosecond range for measuring photocurrent in graphene, which in turn helped in detecting pulses in a few picoseconds.

3 Feb 2012

Point Defects in Graphene Act Like Atomic Antennae

A research team from the Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) of the Department of Energy has demonstrated that point defects in graphene are helpful in transferring atomic-scale data by integrating electrons with light, paving the way to develop quicker and compact electronic devices.

From Oak Ridge National Laboratory 2 Feb 2012

Graphene, the Wonder Material is Superpermeable to Water

Another amazing characteristic of graphene, the wonder material has been discovered by scientists from the University of Manchester. They found that it is superpermeable in relation with water.

30 Jan 2012

Researchers Produce Graphene to Suit Organic Chemistry Applications

A research team of Dr. James Tour’s lab at Rice University has developed a novel method to bond different organic molecules to graphene sheets, making the wonder material suitable for numerous organic chemistry applications.

27 Jan 2012

Study Reveals Insulation Property of Bilayer Graphene

A research team headed by scientists at the University of California, Riverside has discovered that a bilayer graphene sheet becomes an insulating material when its electron count comes down to zero, paving the way to use the wonder material as an electronic material in electronics and semiconductor applications.

27 Jan 2012