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Using a series of complex techniques, investigators at the University of Bristol, in the United Kingdom, announce that they were able to calculate two critically-important properties of graphene for the first time ever. The material may one day replace silicon in electronics.
Graphene is a bi-dimensional carbon com... |
14 February 2012
07:51 GMT |
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A new study conducted by experts at the Rice University and the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) determined that materials coated with a layer of the 2D carbon compound graphene remain wettable.
This is a very important finding, because it suggests that the single-atom-thick material is largely invisible to w... |
24 January 2012
19:31 GMT |
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A team of scientists from the US National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) say that graphene has the tendency to become more slippery when stacked. In a single-sheet configuration, the material usually slows down objects.
The NIST group compares the effect a single layer of graphene has on objects rolli... |
11 January 2012
05:31 GMT |
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The future of graphene in the electronics industry is assured, experts behind a new investigation on the material's properties explain. They say that they were able to make the extremely strong, unbelievably thin carbon compound magnetic.
This property was never observed in graphene before. In its natural stat... |
9 January 2012
05:47 GMT |
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When graphene rips under stress, it does so in a very specific pattern, which follows the lines of least resistance. It was previously unknown that the single-atom-thick carbon compound was able to exhibit such a preference, say investigators who conducted the new study.
The work was carried out by scientists at th... |
6 January 2012
04:44 GMT |
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The absolute lower limits of miniaturization may not be reached for at least a few more decades, say researchers who recently conducted a study on the properties of graphene nanowiggles. The advanced nanoscale material could soon replace silicon in all electronic equipment.
The issue with silicon is that electronic... |
5 January 2012
05:47 GMT |
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Scientists at the Rice University demonstrated that a bi-dimensional carbon compound can be outfitted with organic molecules, thus opening up organic chemistry as a new field for graphene applications.
For the past 6 years or so, physicists and chemists have been trying to figure out the extent to which the material... |
30 November 2011
04:24 GMT |
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Graphene is showing off its wonder material properties yet again, this time actually demonstrating, or being demonstrated to, have what it takes to liquefy.
Granted, liquefy might not be the correct word, since graphene is more of a molecular compound than anything else, so terms like solid, liquid and gaseous do... |
26 November 2011
06:24 GMT |
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Scientists based at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) say that a new generation of gas sensors could put existing devices to shame. They add that the key to improving performances to such an extent is the use of the bi-dimensional carbon compound graphene.
Discovered only in 2005, the material already broug... |
23 November 2011
10:25 GMT |
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The next generation of lithium-ion batteries could recharge in just 15 minutes, and remain operational for at least a week, according to a new report from scientists at the Northwestern University.
The group developed a new method for boosting battery efficiency, which relies heavily on the use of a bi-dimensional ... |
16 November 2011
10:10 GMT |
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Continuing with the string of graphene research breakthroughs, some researchers from Korea discovered a way to make the carbon-based material stretch when part of a transistor.
Graphene is not the first material that researchers tried to use in making stretchable, transparent electronic components.
This didn'... |
28 October 2011
14:01 GMT |
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A group of physicists and chemists at the Rice University announces the development of a new method to produce advanced compounds out of the weird form of bi-dimensional carbon called graphene. The new study shows promise for producing structures that leave material scientists in awe.New metamaterials, high... |
22 October 2011
06:37 GMT |
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Investigators from the University of Cambridge Department of Engineering announce the development of a method for producing graphene that enables the creation of high-quality versions of the material at half the temperature used until now.
With this advancement, it is now possible for a lot more science groups to ... |
12 October 2011
06:44 GMT |
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Graphene has been getting mentioned in the media more and more often lately, and it looks like it is happening again, this time courtesy of the folks at MIT.
Graphene is one of the most versatile materials ever invented and it is, for the most part, seen as the next big leap in technological advancement.
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12 October 2011
04:08 GMT |
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Graphene is one of the materials expected to revolutionize technology as a whole, and the Chancellor of the Exchequer figured he may as well make a hefty investment into the research efforts.
No matter how good an idea, it just never gets to the point where it can help society advance if there is no money backing... |
7 October 2011
10:50 GMT |
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) investigators determined in a new study that graphene is capable of displaying very interesting thermoelectric reactions when exposed to light. The new behavior has not been studied before, but experts say that it could have many practical applications.
Graphene is a bi-... |
7 October 2011
04:39 GMT |
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Rice University investigators – known for their leading role in studying graphene – propose a new use for the 2D, single-atom-thick carbon compound, this time as a free-standing wall placed on future generations of electronic devices.
Graphene wall arrays could be fashioned into ultrahigh d... |
27 September 2011
18:01 GMT |
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At this year's International Electron Device Meeting (IEDM), IBM researchers are due to detail the fabrication of a 2GHz graphene integrated circuit built using a CMOS-compatible manufacturing process technology.Graphene is two-dimensional allotrope of carbon made from a hexagonal lattice of carbon atoms and the... |
19 September 2011
07:51 GMT |
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Scientists at the Purdue University announce the development of graphene inverters that work at room temperature, a considerable improvement from the past generation of such materials. The latter needed temperature as low as minus 196 degrees Celsius (minus 320ºFahrenheit) to operate.
An inverter is a critic... |
7 September 2011
16:21 GMT |
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A group of investigators in the United States announces the development of a system that represents the first demonstration of light and plasmon coupling in the carbon compound called graphene. The work also sets the foundation for using graphene as a basis for new generations of metamaterials.
This investigation... |
5 September 2011
02:37 GMT |
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According to investigators at the University of California in Berkeley (UCB), it would appear that studying the 2d carbon compound graphene might help us get a better understanding of what went on during the Big Bang. This was the event that “exploded” the Universe into being. At the same time, the materi... |
13 August 2011
06:40 GMT |
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In a new study, experts determined that a measured of chaos called entropy explains the behavior of water at the nanoscale, where the liquid tends to flow spontaneously through carbon nanotubes. In theory, this should not happen, because the vast network of hydrogen bonds that permeates water is extremely stable. Bre... |
12 August 2011
05:16 GMT |
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Nanoelectronic designers at the Rice University, in the United States, announce the development of a new technique for producing alloy materials containing the critical 2D carbon compound graphene. This material has a hexagonal, honeycomb-like structure featuring carbon atoms exclusively. It features a host of chemic... |
5 August 2011
03:31 GMT |
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A collaboration of researchers at the Rice University says that a recent investigation led to the creation of a new technique for producing the 2D carbon compound graphene. The method works so well that the material can be produced from any carbon source.In order to prove this, the team created sheets of the nanomate... |
4 August 2011
11:00 GMT |
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A group of physicists at the Rice University announces the development of a new type of electrodes, which are heavily based on the carbon compound graphene. These components will facilitate the creation of flexible, transparent and twistable electronics.Graphene is undoubtedly the most promising material in the world... |
2 August 2011
03:55 GMT |
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There appears to be no limit to the amount of things graphene can do. The 2D carbon compound was recently demonstrated to be able to harvest energy from flowing water, producing small amounts of electricity. This is an applications that not even its creators envisioned. Though it's unlikely that graphene-based s... |
19 July 2011
08:47 GMT |
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Since its discovery 6 years ago, graphene has been under intensive research because of the weird properties theory holds it should have. Now, new investigations are revealing that the material may in fact be even stranger than first hypothesized.For instance, experiments conducted at the Advanced Light Source (ALS) s... |
15 July 2011
10:58 GMT |
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One of the primary limitations of lithium batteries has thus far been their inability to power electric cars for long distances. But that is about to change, since experts at the Stanford University announce the creation of a new type of lithium battery, that features a new cathode material. The component is made up ... |
5 July 2011
10:41 GMT |
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Experts at the University of Manchester in the United Kingdom, who developed graphene back in 2004, will present more data on the vast potential this material has today, July 5. Professors Andre Geim and Kostya Novoselov are leading the presentation.The two experts were jointly awarded the 2010 Nobel Prize in Physics... |
5 July 2011
05:49 GMT |
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A collaboration of investigators in the United States announces the development of a new method for producing defect-free boron nitride nanoribbons (BNNR) from boron nitride nanotubes (BNNT).This approach leads to the creation of nearly-perfect BNNR, and all that is needed in order for that to happen is to insert ato... |
29 June 2011
03:07 GMT |
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A group of investigators at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) announces the creation of multi-layered graphene, a carbon compound that is believed to be silicon's replacement in electronics.The material – the strongest in the world – has chemical and physical properties that are appeali... |
28 June 2011
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Investigators from the Applied Science Faculty at the Free University Bruxelles announce the discovery of a new amazing property for graphene, and namely the fact that it can polarize light. Now, Dr. Han Zhang at the Service OPERA-photonique's Applied Science Faculty, ULB, and Dr. Qiaoliang Bao (the first author... |
30 May 2011
11:04 GMT |
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Ever since graphene was discovered at the University of Manchester in 2005, experts have known that using it for practical applications would depend on finding a suitable substrate material. A collaboration of researchers in the United States now claims to have developed such a material.
Following a long investig... |
28 May 2011
03:36 GMT |
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In the very near future, advanced computers and electronics will no longer contain the silicon, the chemical on which this industry was built, but rather a carbon compound called graphene. Innovations in materials science, recently made in the United States, make using the material feasible. Investigators at the Purd... |
26 May 2011
07:31 GMT |
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Investigators with the University of California in Berkeley (UCB) say that the carbon compound graphene could be used as an efficient means of boosting the current speed of communications. What the UCB engineers did was essentially learn how to use graphene in an entirely new type of technology that could be used to ... |
9 May 2011
03:43 GMT |
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A collaboration of physics experts in the United States announces that it just finished conducting the first measurements of edge states on well-ordered nanoribbons. These structures, made up of graphene, have been hypothesized since the 1990s, but they were only made a reality recently. Graphene itself was first obt... |
9 May 2011
03:20 GMT |
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Since it was first discovered, less than six years ago, graphene has become one of the most heavily-researched materials in the world. Now, experts at the Cambridge University will conduct a study that will prepare the stage for a €1 billion research into the amazing compound.Scientists have a lot of reasons to ... |
5 May 2011
08:08 GMT |
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Graphene really seems to be setting itself up as the eventual replacement for silicon, especially now that IBM is revealed to have managed the creation of a transistor much faster than any created so far. Graphene is a single layer of carbon arranges in hexagons and has, for quite some time, been tested upon.The goa... |
8 April 2011
07:49 GMT |
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For quite a while now graphene has been the object of many studies as scientists try to better understand this material and use it as a replacement for silicon in future computer chips, and a recent discovery comes to strengthen graphene's role in transistor manufacturing since researchers have just found out th... |
6 April 2011
05:21 GMT |
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Physicists at the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) have recently demonstrated the existence of a nanoscale cooling effect inside transistors made of graphene. These structures are apparently capable of reducing their own temperatures, the team reveals. These are the first observations of such thermoe... |
4 April 2011
02:48 GMT |
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While a certain compound might, at certain times, be seen as as the needed breakthrough for massive advancements in a certain field, sometimes there are alternatives, and while it isn't readily available, Silicine is this very thing for graphene.Currently, storage relies on platters and NAND chips, while batter... |
28 March 2011
08:05 GMT |
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In a bid to separate space and time from the unified theory in which they were tied together, an American physicist is proposing that the spacetime fabric everyone is talking about is only a mirage, a figment of scientists' imagination, and nothing more. At this point, spacetime is defined as a hypothetical fabr... |
24 March 2011
10:33 GMT |
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Texas Instruments is getting ready to manufacture the next generation of semiconductors as the company is currently perfecting a new method of growing graphene sheets which will eventually enable it to produce faster, smaller and lower power electronics based on carbon instead of silicon.
According to EETimes, Te... |
4 March 2011
04:49 GMT |
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According to experts in chemistry, diamond may in fact have a cousin. They say that T-carbon may be a form of the common chemical that is a bit softer than diamonds, but still harsher than other forms of the stuff, such as for example graphite. Diamond is the most stable and organized form of carbon. It is only produ... |
1 March 2011
04:13 GMT |
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Graphene has, for a while, been the main material that IT companies have been researching in their quest for better storage, but it seems it may no longer be the only one capable of being rendered into atom-thick sheets.Today's storage solutions may look like they are progressing well in terms of storage capaci... |
4 February 2011
08:53 GMT |
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A group of investigators from the United Kingdom announce that they were able to use one of the newest materials in the world to develop a transistor that features an on/off switching ratio 1,000 times higher than any other currently available on the market.The team, based at the University of Southampton, used the 2... |
31 January 2011
19:31 GMT |
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French researchers with the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) propose in a new article that using molybdenite instead of silicon or graphene could allow for the creation of smaller, cheaper, more energy-efficient electronic chips, and other electronic devices. The proposal is detail... |
31 January 2011
14:01 GMT |
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Introduced as a major breakthrough in chip manufacturing, graphene doesn't seem to have all that much going for it lately, as after IBM said that the material wouldn't replace silicon in future transistors, another hurdle comes its way, researchers just discovering that molybdenite is far better suited for ... |
31 January 2011
09:07 GMT |
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Boasted as one of the greatest innovations in processors manufacturing, graphene isn't yet ready to take the place of silicon in the CPU fabrication process, an IBM researcher revealing that such a transistor can't actually be completely switched off, raising energy efficiency and gate signalling problems.W... |
24 January 2011
11:04 GMT |
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Physicists and materials scientist around the world are currently working on developing methods of including graphene inside next-generation electronics without causing the material to lose its trademark physical and chemical properties. The effort is bound to be very challenging, experts say. The reasons why so many... |
21 January 2011
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