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K-State Professor's Graphene Research Shares Connection With Nobel Laureates

When two scientists were recently awarded the Nobel Prize for physics for their work with graphene, a Kansas State University professor was thrilled with the recognition of the new two-dimensional material. Vikas Berr...

22 Oct 2010

Research Underway to Mass Produce Cheap, High-Quality Graphene

The 2010 Nobel Prize in Physics went to the two scientists who first isolated graphene, one-atom-thick crystals of graphite. Now, a researcher with the University of Houston Cullen College of Engineering is trying to ...

20 Oct 2010

Nobel Team Reunites for Rice's Buckyball Discovery Conference

One simple conversation may have spread the legend of the buckyball farther and wider than the nearly quarter-century of learning and teaching that preceded it.

19 Oct 2010

UCR Researchers Advance Graphene Technology

Researchers at the UC Riverside Bourns College of Engineering have built and successfully tested an amplifier made from graphene that could lead to more efficient circuits in electronic chips, such as those used in Bluet...

From University of California at Riverside 19 Oct 2010

Graphene 100 Times Stronger Than Steel

In manufacturing self-lubricating components for the tool and die industry, the SelfLube Company uses graphite as a solid lubricant.

18 Oct 2010

Moving Toward More Efficient Devices by Studying ‘Noise’ in Graphene Nanoribbons

In last week’s announcement of the Nobel Prize in Physics, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences lauded graphene’s “exceptional properties that originate from the remarkable world of quantum physics.” If it weren’t hot enough before, this atomically thin sheet of carbon is now officially in the global spotlight.

From Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory 15 Oct 2010