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Researcher Develops Novel Methods to Create and Work with Carbon Nanotubes

A research team led by Gurpreet Singh from the Kansas State University is developing novel methods to synthesize and work with graphene-based carbon nanotubes, which pave the way to enhance the performance of rechargeable batteries and laser detectors.

8 Feb 2012

Announcement of New Investment Strands for Graphene Research in UK

Announcement of four new investment strands will help the United Kingdom to lead and establish itself as a graphene research hub for commercializing novel graphene technologies.

4 Feb 2012

Study Findings Pave Way to Use Graphene as Next Silicon

High conductivity is one of the major issues of graphene and this restricts it to be used as a base material for producing computer chips.

4 Feb 2012

Northern Graphite’s High-Carbon Graphite to be Used for Graphene Study

Northern Graphite has consented to deliver its +32 mesh and +48 mesh extra-large-flake, high- carbon graphite to Grafen Chemical Industries for use in graphene research.

From Grafen Chemical Industries 4 Feb 2012

Novel Method for Measuring Graphene’s Electronic and Optical Behavior

A research team comprising Leonhard Prechtel and Leonhard Prechtel from the Technische Universitaet Muenchen’s Walter Schottky Institut has devised a method to improve the time resolution down to the picosecond range for measuring photocurrent in graphene, which in turn helped in detecting pulses in a few picoseconds.

3 Feb 2012

Point Defects in Graphene Act Like Atomic Antennae

A research team from the Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) of the Department of Energy has demonstrated that point defects in graphene are helpful in transferring atomic-scale data by integrating electrons with light, paving the way to develop quicker and compact electronic devices.

From Oak Ridge National Laboratory 2 Feb 2012

Graphene, the Wonder Material is Superpermeable to Water

Another amazing characteristic of graphene, the wonder material has been discovered by scientists from the University of Manchester. They found that it is superpermeable in relation with water.

30 Jan 2012

Researchers Produce Graphene to Suit Organic Chemistry Applications

A research team of Dr. James Tour’s lab at Rice University has developed a novel method to bond different organic molecules to graphene sheets, making the wonder material suitable for numerous organic chemistry applications.

27 Jan 2012

Study Reveals Insulation Property of Bilayer Graphene

A research team headed by scientists at the University of California, Riverside has discovered that a bilayer graphene sheet becomes an insulating material when its electron count comes down to zero, paving the way to use the wonder material as an electronic material in electronics and semiconductor applications.

27 Jan 2012

International Conference on Graphene to be Held in Brussels

The organizers of Graphene 2012 are pleased to announce the upcoming International Conference on Graphene to be held in Brussels (Belgium), from April 10-13 at the Brussels44Center. The call for abstracts (oral reque...

26 Jan 2012