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Applications of Carbon Nanotubes and Graphene for Electronics Applications

Reportlinker.com announces that a new market research report "Carbon Nanotubes and Graphene for Electronics Applications: Technologies, Players + Opportunities" is available in its catalogue.

7 Oct 2009

Simple Way to Improve Semiconducting Properties of World's Thinnest Material

Writing in the Letters section of Nature Physics, researchers from the University of Manchester, the Institute of Materials Science in Madrid and the University of Nijmegen in the Netherlands report that simply stretchin...

28 Sep 2009

Disease Diagnosis, Toxin Detection and More are Possible with DNA-Graphene Nanostructure

Biomedical researchers suspect graphene, a novel nanomaterial made of sheets of single carbon atoms, would be useful in a variety of applications. But no one had studied the interaction between graphene and DNA, the buil...

22 Sep 2009

Researcher for First Time Made Graphene Visible on Gallium Arsenide

PTB has for the first time made graphene visible on gallium arsenide - A successful combination of two unique electronic materials.

16 Sep 2009

Graphite Oxide Can Now be Transformed to Graphene by an Ordinary Camera Flash

A Northwestern University professor and his students have found a new way of turning graphite oxide -- a low-cost insulator made by oxidizing graphite powder -- into graphene, a hotly studied material that conducts electricity. Scientists believe graphene could be used to produce low-cost carbon-based transparent and flexible electronics.

12 Aug 2009

Carbon Nanotubes and Graphene Having Huge Potential in Electrical and Electronic Applications

Carbon nanotubes and graphene exhibit extraordinary electrical properties for organic materials, and have a huge potential in electrical and electronic applications such as sensors, microelectronic and semi-conductor devices, field emission displays (FEDs), nanoelectrodes and energy conversion devices (e.g., fuel cells and batteries).

9 Aug 2009

Discovery of Graphane May Prove More Versatile than Graphene

Ever since graphene was discovered in 2004, this one-atom thick, super strong, carbon-based electrical conductor has been billed as a "wonder material" that some physicists think could one day replace silicon i...

31 Jul 2009

Research into Graphene Nanoribbons Provides New Reasons for Using it as Interconnects In Future Computer Chips

Recent research into the properties of graphene nanoribbons provides two new reasons for using the material as interconnects in future computer chips. In widths as narrow as 16 nanometers, graphene has a current carrying capacity approximately a thousand times greater than copper-while providing improved thermal conductivity.

29 Jul 2009

First Direct Observation and Controlled Creation of One- and Two-Dimensional Ripples in Graphene Sheets

UC Riverside's Chun Ning (Jeanie) Lau and colleagues now report the first direct observation and controlled creation of one- and two-dimensional ripples in graphene sheets. Using simple thermal manipulation, the researchers produced the ripples, and controlled their orientation, wavelength and amplitude.

26 Jul 2009

Synthesis of Graphitic Nanotubes Containing Platinum Metals Achieved Through Self-Assembly Techniques

Nanoscale materials with well-defined shapes, such as one-dimensional hollow tubes, have attracted the interest of scientists seeking to utilize their unique properties.

23 Jul 2009