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New Graphene Technique for Electron Microscopy Studies of Nanocrystal Growth

A team of researchers from the University of California (UC) Berkeley and the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) has devised a technique that allows the encapsulation of nanocrystal liquids between graphene layers, to take images of chemical reactions occurring in liquid media at an atomic-scale resolution using an electron microscope.

From Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory 21 Apr 2012

Scientists Create Prototype of 2D Graphene Electron Lens

An international team of scientists from the French National Center for Scientific Research and the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology in Germany has developed a new prototype lens using graphene.

20 Apr 2012

Researchers Develop Graphene Liquid Cell for TEM Imaging of Nanoscale Processes in Liquid

A research team comprising Jeong Yong Lee and Jong Min Yuk from the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), together with research groups of Paul Alivisatos and Alex Zettl from the University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley) has devised a technique to study processes taking place in liquid media on a scale below 1 nm.

12 Apr 2012

XG Sciences to Develop High-Energy Ultracapacitors for Air Force Research Laboratory

XG Sciences, a supplier of energy storage electrode materials, has announced that the Air Force Research Laboratory has selected the company to develop advanced ultrahigh-energy ultracapacitors for space energy storage systems.

From NanoXplore Inc. 11 Apr 2012

Graphene Composite Films Cool Electronic Devices More Rapidly

Dr. Jag Kasichainula, an associate professor of materials science and engineering at the North Carolina State University, has designed a low-cost, high-efficient cooling technique using graphene composite films to dissipate heat from electronic devices.

11 Apr 2012

WITec Paper Award Goes to Graphene Researchers

The winner of the WITec Paper Award 2011 has been announced. This year the award goes to Diedrich A. Schmidt, North Carolina A&T State University, USA, Taisuke Ohta and Thomas E. Beechem both from the Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA for their paper: “Strain and charge carrier coupling in epitaxial graphene”, Phys. Rev. B 84, 235422 (2011).

From WITec GmbH 4 Apr 2012

Thomas Swan Collaborate to Develop a Scalable Manufacturing Process for Graphene

The UK’s leading manufacturer of high purity single-wall carbon nanotubes Thomas Swan has announced a 4 year, £625K collaboration with the Centre for Research on Adaptive Nanostructures and Nanodevices (CRANN) at Trinity College Dublin to develop a scalable manufacturing process for high purity graphene.

From Thomas Swan & Co Ltd 4 Apr 2012