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New Method for Quick and Efficient Synthesis of Nanographenes

At Nagoya University, Japan, a research group has developed a new technique for synthesizing nanographenes, a type of nanocarbon with huge potential as a next-generation material, in a quick and efficient way.

29 Jun 2021

New Process Creates Fluorinated Nanodiamonds, Graphene and Concentric Carbon

Diamond could merely be a phase that carbon experiences when it is exposed to a flash of heat, but that makes it far easier to realize.

22 Jun 2021

Graphene Drum: Researchers Develop New Phonon Laser Design

Professor Konstantin Arutyunov of the HSE Tikhonov Moscow Institute of Electronics and Mathematics, together with Chinese researchers, has developed a graphene-based mechanical resonator, in which coherent emission of sound energy quanta, or phonons, has been induced.

21 Jun 2021

Atomic-Scale Control of Graphene Towards Macroscopic World

Graphene consists of carbon atoms arranged in a chicken-wire like pattern. This one-atom-thick material is famous for its many extraordinary properties, such as extreme strength and remarkable capability to conduct electricity.

21 Jun 2021

Urban Waste Being Used to Create Graphene

Graphenea is part of a flagship project CIRCULAR BIOCARBON, which kicked off this week, and which has been awarded over 23 M€ to develop a first-of-its kind flagship biorefinery, designed to turn the organic fractio...

18 Jun 2021

Researchers Use Graphene to Detect SARS-CoV-2 Virus in Lab Experiments

Researchers at the University of Illinois Chicago have successfully used graphene -- one of the strongest, thinnest known materials -- to detect the SARS-CoV-2 virus in laboratory experiments.

17 Jun 2021

Graphene Sheet Acts Like Video Camera to Record Electrical Activity of a Beating Heart

Bay Area scientists have captured the real-time electrical activity of a beating heart, using a sheet of graphene to record an optical image -- almost like a video camera -- of the faint electric fields generated by the rhythmic firing of the heart's muscle cells.

17 Jun 2021

Researchers Establish a Design Guideline for Practical Applications of Graphene Devices

Scientists from Osaka University, in association with the Toyo University and the Kyushu Institute of Technology, have elucidated the expression mechanism of metallic and semiconducting properties in graphene nanoribbons (GNRs) by studying the carrier transport characteristics in the field-effect transistor (FET) through a multilayer GNR channel.

4 Jun 2021

US Patent Granted to Graphene-Based Environmental Remediation Technology

A graphene-based material that could filter heavy metals and other contaminants from water and air has been patented in the US.

2 Jun 2021

Graphene-Based Nanozymes can be Used to Identify L-Cysteine in Serum

Graphene-based materials can be obtained using various reducing agents, many of which are dangerous and toxic chemicals, and the obtained graphene-based materials are prone to aggregation, limiting their practical applications.

2 Jun 2021