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Vorbeck and Partners Bag R+D 100 Award

Vorbeck Materials and its partners Princeton University and Pacific Northwest National Labs (PNNL) have won the R&D 100 Award, an annual award instituted by R&D Magazine in honor of 100 most important technological and scientific products and innovations of the year.

From Vorbeck Materials 25 Jun 2012

New Technique Allows Graphene to be Fabricated in Any Lab

Graphene is a single-layer sheet of carbon atoms. The structure of graphene consists of six-member carbon rings, resembling a honeycomb.

22 Jun 2012

Researchers Demonstrate Existence and Ability to Tune Plasmons in Graphene

Graphene is a single-layer sheet of carbon atoms. Plasmons are oscillations that are assumed to exist on graphene.

22 Jun 2012

Scientists Report Nanoscale Manipulation of Light Using Graphene

Research groups in Spain have succeeded in imaging light confined on graphene.

22 Jun 2012

Study Reveals Graphene Decouples Organic/Inorganic Interfaces

Scientists from the Electronic & Magnetic Materials & Devices (EMMD) Group at the Center for Nanoscale Materials have used cryogenic ultrahigh vacuum scanning tunneling microscopy to observe extremely weak molecule-surface interactions between fullerene C60 deposited over graphene grown epitaxially on silicon carbide substrates.

20 Jun 2012

New Initiative to Reinforce Graphene Research within Europe

Although interest on graphene research is growing all across the world, the European Union is lagging in this aspect, especially in applied research.

19 Jun 2012

Researchers Tune Graphene to Manipulate Terahertz and Infrared Waves

Using a large graphene sheet, scientists from the Rice University and the Institute of Laser Engineering at Osaka University have found a way to control the transmission of electromagnetic radiation having wavelengths between terahertz and midinfrared.

16 Jun 2012

New Micro and Nano-Fabrication Facility Opened at National University of Singapore

A new Micro and Nano-Fabrication Facility has been inaugurated at the Graphene Research Centre of the National University of Singapore (NUS). The new facility is the first-of-its-kind nano-science and nano-technology center in the Asian region devoted to graphene research.

15 Jun 2012

UK Graphene Supplier Haydale Announces North American Distribution Deal with CTi

Haydale Limited, and Cheap Tubes Inc. (CTi), today announce that they have reached agreement for CTi to act as the exclusive agent for the supply of the Haydale HDPlas nano products in the United States, Canada, and Mexico.

From Cheap Tubes Inc. 12 Jun 2012

New Semiconductor-Graphene-Metal Film Can Detect Ultra-Low Concentrations of Environmental Contaminants

Researchers at the laboratory of Prashant V. Kamat, the John A. Zahm Professor of Science at the University of Notre Dame, are working on ways to detect trace amounts of environmental contaminants. The researchers used silver nanoparticles to enhance the chemical detection’s sensitivity limit with the help of surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy.

7 Jun 2012