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Speedy Cellphone Charging Could Soon Become a Reality

Charging cellphones within seconds is getting closer to reality with the recent achievement of researchers at the University of Waterloo, who used nanotechnology to considerably improve energy-storage devices called supercapacitors.

25 Oct 2017

Graphene Study Could Lead to Novel Electronic Devices

Graphene, a one-atom-thick layer of the stuff in pencils, is considered as a better conductor compared to copper and is extremely promising for electronic devices with on catch: Electrons that pass through it cannot be stopped.

23 Oct 2017

Heat Treating Stacked Graphene Oxide Nanosheets to Generate Pressure

Graphene is single-atom-thick sheet of carbon that has gained global attention as an innovative material. A team of scientists from Kumamoto University, Japan, has found out that we can generate pressure by simply mounting graphene oxide nanosheets one over the other, where graphene oxide is highly identical to graphene.

3 Oct 2017

Graphene Forged into Three-Dimensional Objects with Laser Light

Researchers from Finland and Taiwan have made a discovery on how graphene, a single-atom-thin layer of carbon, can be forged into three-dimensional objects with the help of laser light.

27 Sep 2017

FAU Physicists Use Single Laser Pulse to Control Electronic Current in Graphene

It is essential to control electronic current in modern electronics because streams of electrons that transfer signals and data are controlled at high speed. With advances in technology, the need for transmission speeds is also growing.

26 Sep 2017

Scientists Visualize Long Chain of Moving Molecules in Graphene Pockets

Our world is made up of moving, vibrating and leaping molecules. However, it is not an easy task to capture their movement. IBS scientists at the Center for Soft and Living Matter, within the Institute for Basic Science (IBS), were able to observe the movement of molecules stored within a graphene pocket without having to stain them.

21 Sep 2017

Substituting Graphene and Other Carbon Nanomaterials for Scarce Metals

It is possible to find scarce metals in a variety of everyday objects. These materials are difficult to extract and recycle and are extremely rare such that several of them have become "conflict minerals" capable of promoting oppression and conflicts.

20 Sep 2017

Graphene-Enveloped Nanocrystals for Storing Hydrogen in Hydrogen-Powered Vehicles

Researchers from the Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) have synthesized a powdery mixture of metal nanocrystals enveloped in single-layer carbon atom sheets.

15 Sep 2017

Graphene-Based Materials Boost the Properties of Silk Made by Spiders

Researchers from the Graphene Flagship have established the fact that graphene-based materials are capable of enhancing the properties of spider's silk.

15 Sep 2017

Graphene-Based Saturable Absorbers Enable Ultrafast Lasers in the Terahertz Range

CNR-Istituto Nanoscienze, Italy and the University of Cambridge, UK have carried out Graphene Flagship researches to create a terahertz saturable absorber using graphene generated by liquid phase exfoliation and deposited by ink jet printing and transfer coating.

13 Sep 2017