A research team from the Korea Institute of Science and Technology has just come up with a novel solution to the graphene problem: no graphene! The finding could lead to a new generation of low cost, transparent solar cells.
The Graphene Flagship initiative — already one of the biggest-ever European research initiatives — recently doubled in size, taking on 66 new partners from a variety of different organizations and universities spread out across the EU. The recent announcement — 66 new partners joining the consortium following a €9 million … [continued]
Okay, so it ain’t no Egyptian cotton, but a team composed of researchers from MIT, the University of Michigan, and the Indian Institute of Technology has come up with a new way to fabricate a graphene sheet, which overcomes some of the hurdles that have been bedeviling researchers ever since … [continued]
In an important advance in the drive towards the unlocking of graphene’s noted potential, researchers have developed a technique that allows for the electronic properties of graphene boron nitride (GBN) heterostructures to be modified using nothing but light. GBN heterostructures have been noted for their potential use in electronics (and … [continued]
An international team of researchers has come up with a recipe for a microscale flexible energy storage device made of graphene and carbon nanotubes, which can store enough energy to rival the gold standard, lithium batteries. That’s significant because the device is actually not a battery, it is a supercapacitor … [continued]
A new, very fast synthesis technique for the creation of high-quality, large-area Bernal (or AB) stacked bilayer graphene films has been developed by researchers at the University of California–Santa Barbara. The new technique will open up new possibilities in the fields of digital electronics and transparent conductors, according to the … [continued]
The endlessly hyped, next-generation wonder material graphene can apparently be created using nothing but graphite, water, dishwasing detergent, and a kitchen blender — based on recent findings from researchers at Trinity College Dublin. The one-atom thick honeycombed sheets of carbon have a great number of potential applications in renewable energy … [continued]
New research from the University of Arkansas has revealed that platinum nanoparticles automatically limit their own size and organize into specific patterns when they’re bonded to freestanding graphene. When exhibiting these behaviors, the platinum nanoparticles retain the ability to function effectively as a catalyst for chemical reactions — a finding … [continued]
Graphene is good for more than just solar cells, water filtration, ultra-thin display screens, integrated circuits, space elevators, ethanol distillation, single-molecule gas detection, desalination, next-gen batteries, thermal management, DNA sequencing, etc… (lol), according to new research from Queen Mary University of London and the Cambridge Graphene Centre, it also shows … [continued]
The great potential that graphene has shown with regard to electronics and energy technologies is well known, but there’s quite a bit more to graphene than ‘just’ that…. In particular, the material possesses a number of strange qualities with regard to its interactions with water — qualities that are now … [continued]
