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Graphene ‘Petri-Dish’ Allows Measurement of Single Atoms

A team of researchers have demonstrated new possibilities for observing nanomaterials in liquids by building a graphene ‘petri-dish’.

16 Jan 2018

White Graphene Provides Ceramics Strength, Toughness, and Thermal Conductivity

According to a Rice University researcher, a little hBN in ceramics could give them exceptional properties.

12 Jan 2018

Internet of Things to be Transformed by Embedding Graphene Sensors into RFIDs

Researchers at The University of Manchester have integrated graphene sensors into RFIDs, which have the ability to transform the Internet of Things (IoT).

10 Jan 2018

Scientists Develop New Graphene-Like Nanocomposite Material

A new nanocomposite material capable of boosting battery life and improving the performance of daily gadgets such as tablets, smartphones and laptops has been developed by scientists.

21 Dec 2017

New Process can Change Two-Layer Graphene into Diamond-Hard Material on Impact

Visualize a material as lightweight and flexible as foil that turns hard and stiff enough to stop a bullet on impact. In a recently published paper in Nature Nanotechnology, researchers across The City University of New York (CUNY) report a process for making diamene: flexible, layered sheets of graphene that become harder than diamond and impenetrable upon impact on a temporary basis.

19 Dec 2017

Researchers Detect Graphene’s Out-Of-Plane Heat Transfer in Layered Material Heterostructures

Graphene Flagship scientists, led by researchers at ICFO - The Institute of Photonic Sciences in Barcelona, Spain, have detected graphene’s out-of-plane heat transfer in van der Waals heterostructures.

19 Dec 2017

Investigations on the Use of Graphene in Space-Related Applications

As part of a successful partnership between the Graphene Flagship and the European Space Agency, studies investigating graphene for two disparate space-related uses have demonstrated exceptionally propitious outcomes. Depending upon these outcomes, the Flagship are constantly striving to create graphene devices for application in space.

18 Dec 2017

Artificial Graphene Created in Nanofabricated Semiconductor Structure

Researchers at Columbia Engineering, who are experts at controlling matter at the nanoscale, have made a vital discovery in physics and materials science.

13 Dec 2017

Giant Spin Anisotropy in Graphene Could Pave the Way for New Spintronic Logic Devices

A group of researchers from the Graphene Flagship has predicted and demonstrated a giant spin anisotropy in graphene – the single-atom-thick allotrope of carbon – and associated materials (GRMs) such as transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDCs). This latest development paves the way for new spintronic logic devices.

12 Dec 2017

Defect Densities in Graphene Layers Revealed Using New Technique

A Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (UPM) researcher has been taking part in the development of a technique that establishes the density of defects in two-dimensional (2D) nanomaterials because of measurements of spatial coherence of light that strike them.

6 Dec 2017