The U.S. Navy is behind a push to exploit one of the “hottest” areas of the electromagnetic spectrum, the terahertz band. The Office of Naval Research contributed to a breakthrough project at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory last fall with the help of graphene nanoribbons, and just last month a team … [continued]
by Marcia Goodrich of Michigan Technological University The coolest new nanomaterial of the 21st century could boost the efficiency of the next generation of solar panels, a team of Michigan Technological University materials scientists has discovered. Graphene, a two-dimensional honeycomb of carbon atoms, is a rising star in the materials … [continued]
Though boron is better known for the making of bleach, as a sort of metalloid cousin to silicon it also has some intriguing potential in solar energy research. Now a team of researchers at Rice University is exploring the possibility that atom-thin sheets of boron could lead to the next … [continued]
Dry ice once gained notoriety as a fog enabler at innumerable 1970’s discotheques, and now it is being revived to hustle a 21st century breakthrough material out of the lab and into commercial use. Researchers from South Korea and Case Western Reserve University are developing a way to manufacture large … [continued]
Surface-mediated cells (SMC,) from Angstron Materials Inc., offer us the advantage of increasing both power and energy densities.
Graphene, the newly discovered material that is only one atom thick but two hundred times stronger than steel, could be put to infinite uses in the next generation of electronic devices, but getting graphene to behave is a little like herding cats…until now.
An Australian university constructed graphene paper by milling graphite, and for the first time it was malleable, 10 times stronger than steel, 6 times lighter, and more rigid at the same time.
Carbon nanotubes normally have to be grown to produce graphene.
A serious challenger has emerged to take on graphene’s title as the miracle material of the 21st century, and that is a common, silvery looking mineral called molybdenite. Like graphene, molybdenite occurs in nano-thin sheets. It could play an important role in engineering the next generation of super small, super … [continued]
Graphene is emerging as a futuristic materials superhero that will drive us toward more energy efficient, durable, scaled-down electronics, among many other new technologies. However, every superhero has a weakness and researchers at Columbia University have just found it. If graphene was Superman, this would be its kryptonite. Perhaps a … [continued]
Table sugar, that bane of nutritionists everywhere, may be on the verge of redeeming itself. A team of researchers at Rice University has found that ordinary table sugar can be manipulated to form sheets of graphene. Something of a new miracle material, graphene could be used to create a new … [continued]
