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Nano-Material Based Supercapacitors May Increase Interest for Electric Cars in Germany

Electric cars are very much welcomed in Norway and they are a common sight on the roads of the Scandinavian country – so much so that electric cars topped the list of new vehicle registrations for the second time. This poses a stark contrast to the situation in Germany, where electric vehicles claim only a small portion of the market.

25 Jul 2014

Cost-Effective Technology to Synthesize Heteroatom-Doped Graphenes

A research team led by group leader Yung-Eun Sung has announced that they have developed cost-effective technology to synthesize sulfur-doped and nitrogen-doped graphenes which can be applied as high performance electrodes for secondary batteries and fuel cells.

25 Jul 2014

Graphene Frontiers Closes $1.6 Million Series Seed B Funding

Mike Patterson, CEO of Graphene Frontiers, announced the successful closing of $1.6 million in Series Seed B funding to finance production of cutting edge biological and chemical sensors for the life science, defense, intelligence, and environmental industries.

22 Jul 2014

Aberration-Corrected Transmission Electron Microscope Cuts Sheets of Graphene into Ribbons

Graphene, a material that consists of a lattice of carbon atoms, one atom thick, is widely touted as being the most electrically conductive material ever studied. However, not all graphene is the same. With so few atoms comprising the entirety of the material, the arrangement of each one has an impact on its overall function.

17 Jul 2014

Quantum Capacitance Plays a Role in Performance of Carbon Components as Electrodes

Lithium-ion batteries could benefit from a theoretical model created at Rice University and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory that predicts how carbon components will perform as electrodes.

15 Jul 2014

Challenges and Opportunities of Charge Transport in Polycrystalline Graphene

The graphene produced by chemical vapor deposition is typically polycrystalline. Authors from the ICN2 Theoretical and Computational Nanoscience Group, led by ICREA Research professor Stephan Roche, together with from the group of Prof. Young-Hee Lee Sungkyunkwan University, review in Advanced Materials the challenges and opportunities of these structures.

14 Jul 2014

Graphene/Silicon Heterojunction Schottky Diode can be used for Selective Vapors Sensing

The ICN2 Nanobioelectronics & Biosensors Group, led by ICREA Research Professor Arben Merkoçi, published in Small a work showing how to use a Graphene/Silicon Heterojunction Schottky Diode as a sensitive, selective and simple tool for vapors sensing.

14 Jul 2014

Geckos and Spiders Can’t Sit Upside Down Forever

Not even geckos and spiders can sit upside down forever. Nanophysics makes sure of that. Mechanics researchers at Linköping University have demonstrated this in an article just published in Physical Review E. Knowledge that can be of great industrial benefit.

10 Jul 2014

Phantoms Foundation Releases Catalogue of Companies Working on Graphene at International Conference & Exhibition Graphene 2014

Phantoms Foundation is pleased to announce a catalogue of companies working on Graphene launched during the International Conference & Exhibition Graphene 2014 (Toulouse, France) back in May. The first edition features only companies working directly on the field. The second version (2015) to be launched during Graphene 2015 (10-13 March, 2015) will include all those who work hard in Universities, Research Centers, etc.

9 Jul 2014

Graphene Ribbons Tuned to Act as Semiconductors

Using graphene ribbons of unimaginably small widths – just several atoms across – a group of researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (UWM) has found a novel way to “tune” the wonder material, causing the extremely efficient conductor of electricity to act as a semiconductor.

4 Jul 2014