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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

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