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Synthesizing Graphene-Like Polymer with Well Defined Pores

Physicists at Empa, Switzerland, together with chemists from the Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research in Mainz, Germany, have, for the first time, succeeded in synthesizing a graphene-like porous polymer with atomic accuracy.

19 Nov 2009

Understanding the Electrical Properties of Graphene

First, it was the soccer-ball-shaped molecules dubbed buckyballs. Then it was the cylindrically shaped nanotubes. Now, the hottest new material in physics and nanotechnology is graphene: a remarkably flat molecule made o...

17 Nov 2009

Researchers Find Reliable, Mess-Free Way to Grow Graphene

Single layers of carbon atoms, called graphene sheets, are lightweight, strong, electrically semi-conducting -- and notoriously difficult and expensive to make.

9 Nov 2009

Graphene-on-Silicon Field Effect Transistors at Full Wafer Scale

HRL scientists announced today they have fabricated and demonstrated graphene-on-silicon field effect transistors (FETs) at full wafer scale-a revolutionary advancement in electronics that will enable unprecedented capabilities in high-bandwidth communications, imaging and radar systems.

22 Oct 2009

Researchers Unlocking Secrets of Material that Could Ultimately be Used in New Generation of Electronic Devices

UCL researchers are helping to unlock the secrets of a material that could ultimately be used in a new generation of electronic devices.

16 Oct 2009

Five Year Grant Allows MIT Physicist to Explore Unique Features of Graphene

MIT physicist Pablo Jarillo-Herrero has won a 2009 David and Lucile Packard Fellowship, an award he will use to study a new class of materials that could have applications in the semiconductor industry and quantum computing.

15 Oct 2009

Graphene Pioneer Wins Royal Society Anniversary Professorship

A leading physicist from The University of Manchster has been awarded a Royal Society 2010 Anniversary Research Professorship in celebration of the Society's 350th anniversary. Prof Andre Geim is Langworthy Professor of Physics at the University of Manchester and is known primarily for the discovery of graphene.

15 Oct 2009

Researchers Discover Novel Electronic Properties in Graphene

Rutgers researchers have discovered novel electronic properties in two-dimensional sheets of carbon atoms called graphene that could one day be the heart of speedy and powerful electronic devices. The new findings, p...

14 Oct 2009

Gold "Snowflakes" on Graphene

In an effort to make graphene more useful in electronics applications, Kansas State University engineers made a golden discovery -- gold "snowflakes" on graphene. Vikas Berry is a K-State assistant professor...

12 Oct 2009

Discovery Offers New Insight into the Growth of Graphene Layers

Researchers analyzing the assembly of graphene (sheets of carbon only one atom thick) on a surface of iridium have found that the sheets grow by first forming tiny carbon domes. The discovery offers new insight into the growth of graphene layers and points the way to possible methods for assembling components of graphene-based computer circuits.

12 Oct 2009