Call me crazy, but I hate “top ___ stories of the year” that run a month or even a couple weeks before the end of the year. I understand that it’s not popular to wait until the end of the year to write these, but I prefer to wait anyway. … [continued]
An international team of researchers based at MIT has figured out how to make the edges of the two-dimensional wonder material graphene behave like one-dimensional electronic wires. I know, right? To ice the cake, the edges don’t have to be perfectly formed. They can be irregular or “dirty” and those … [continued]
If you thought graphene was the wonder material of the new millennium, hold on to your hats because another wonder material just rode into town and this one promises to be just as interesting. A team of researchers at Purdue University has demonstrated that nanocrystals of cellulose, the building blocks … [continued]
An impressive new means of producing graphene has been created by researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) in Boulder, Colorado — one that the researchers think will help to bring the commercial production of graphene one step closer to reality. The new production method utilizes a … [continued]
File this one under “I” for It takes a thief to catch a thief. A research team at the University of Illinois at Chicago is on track to developing a low-cost method for reducing carbon dioxide to carbon monoxide, which puts it one step away from creating synfuels including synthetic … [continued]
A research team from the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory has a 300-mile electric vehicle battery range in its sights, thanks to a unique combination of different electrochemical technologies including a new material called sulfur-graphene oxide (S-GO). CleanTechnica is one of the world’s leading fans of graphene so naturally we are … [continued]
Large graphene crystals (10,000 times larger than the largest crystals of only four years ago) that possess exceptional electrical properties were recently created by researchers from the University of Texas at Austin. The new centimeter-size crystals were produced via the utilization of practically nothing but surface oxygen and thin sheets … [continued]
A research team at Columbia University has figured out a way to bridge the gap between our three-dimensional world and the two-dimensional world of graphene, an alluring but notoriously fickle “miracle material” only one atom thick. The finding brings us one step closer to a new generation of smaller, lighter, … [continued]
During my recent trip to Ukraine, I had the opportunity to chat with an ultracapacitor/supercapacitor and EV battery expert, Vadim Utkin, CEO of Yunasko. Below are a couple of quite interesting videos from that. In this first one, Vadim mentions a combined ultracapacitor and lithium-ion battery technology Yunasko is working … [continued]
Graphene solar cells are now one step closer to reality, thanks to a new discovery made by researchers at the HZB Institute for Silicon Photovoltaics. The discovery: the many impressive properties of graphene, such as extreme conductivity and “complete” transparency for example, are apparently completely unaffected by the application of … [continued]
