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Creating A New Imaging Technique to View Graphene

It's been used to dye the Chicago River green on St. Patrick's Day. It's been used to find latent blood stains at crime scenes. And now researchers at Northwestern University have used it to examine the thinn...

23 Dec 2009

Using Unique Capabilities of Graphene

University of California, Riverside (UCR) Professor of Electrical Engineering and Chair of Materials Science and Engineering Alexander Balandin is leading several projects to explore ways to use the unique capabilities of graphene "quilts" as heat conductors in high-power electronics.

19 Dec 2009

Angstron Materials Awarded Multi-Million Contract to Mass-Produce Nano Graphene Platelets

Angstron Materials Inc., a world leader in the production of nano graphene platelets (NGPs), has been awarded 1.494 million to develop processes for mass-producing chemically modified ("functionalized") NGPs for a nearly limitless number of applications in the aerospace, energy, defense, automotive and telecommunications markets.

17 Dec 2009

Graphene Becoming Pliable Using Nanodroplet of Water

A single-atom-thick sheet of carbon, like those seen in pencil marks -- offers great potential for new types of nanoscale devices, if a good way can be found to mold the material into desired shapes. Chemists at the ...

17 Dec 2009

Vorbeck Materials Receives EPA Approval to Manufacture Graphene as Conductive Additive for Inks

Vorbeck Materials Corp. announced recent EPA approval to manufacture graphene as a conductive additive for inks. EPA's approval, which was granted under the terms of the Low Exposure, Low Release Exemption Rule (LoRE...

From Vorbeck Materials 16 Dec 2009

Narrow-Width Graphene Ribbons Having Strong Effect on Elastic Properties

Graphene sheets are strong and stable, and have highly mobile charge carriers that could make them prime components in nanometer-scale electronics. In particular, very narrow graphene ribbons could act as excellent circuit connectors.

24 Nov 2009

Synthesizing Graphene-Like Polymer with Well Defined Pores

Physicists at Empa, Switzerland, together with chemists from the Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research in Mainz, Germany, have, for the first time, succeeded in synthesizing a graphene-like porous polymer with atomic accuracy.

19 Nov 2009

Understanding the Electrical Properties of Graphene

First, it was the soccer-ball-shaped molecules dubbed buckyballs. Then it was the cylindrically shaped nanotubes. Now, the hottest new material in physics and nanotechnology is graphene: a remarkably flat molecule made o...

17 Nov 2009

Researchers Find Reliable, Mess-Free Way to Grow Graphene

Single layers of carbon atoms, called graphene sheets, are lightweight, strong, electrically semi-conducting -- and notoriously difficult and expensive to make.

9 Nov 2009

Graphene-on-Silicon Field Effect Transistors at Full Wafer Scale

HRL scientists announced today they have fabricated and demonstrated graphene-on-silicon field effect transistors (FETs) at full wafer scale-a revolutionary advancement in electronics that will enable unprecedented capabilities in high-bandwidth communications, imaging and radar systems.

22 Oct 2009