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May 21, 2013 08:34 AM EDT

Inkjet-Printed Graphene Circuits: How to Create Foldable, Pocket-Sized Computers

We may be one step closer to creating foldable computers that could potentially fit in a pocket. Researchers have used graphene-based ink to inkjet-print graphene patterns that could eventually be used to create extremely detailed, conductive electrodes.

May 09, 2013 06:58 PM EDT

Single Gas Molecules Can Now be Detected by Special Graphene Chemical Sensors

Engineers fine-tune the sensitivity of nano-chemical sensor: Tweaking graphene chemical sensors may open up many applications

May 03, 2013 11:44 AM EDT

Graphene 'Paint' Could Power Future Homes with Solar Energy

A new material made of graphene could, in theory, be "painted" onto outside walls to absorb solar energy and power the homes of the future.

Apr 30, 2013 04:13 PM EDT

Ultra-fast Switching Graphene Transistor Developed

Graphene researchers announced that they developed a super-fast switching transistor capable of revolutionising technologies for medical imaging and security screening.

Apr 26, 2013 03:35 PM EDT

Graphene Layers on Steel Surfaces Found to be Perfect Lubricant, Superior to Oil

Scientists discovered that one-atom-thick graphene layers work very well as lubricants on sliding steel surfaces, enabling a dramatic reduction in the amount of wear and friction over solutions like oil-based lubricants.

Apr 23, 2013 03:41 PM EDT

Using Graphene to Grow Nanowires Yields Unexpected and Useful Structure

A new phenomenon was discovered by chance when experimenting with growing nanowires of a compound semiconductor on top of a sheet of graphene. The team of University of Illinois engineers that conducted the experiments were surprised to find the very useful trait that the self-assembled wires formed...

Apr 05, 2013 04:03 PM EDT

British Graphene Research Cluster Receives More Grants and Projects

A new research project focusing on graphene membranes was injected with a large research grant at the University of Manchester. Expected results could provide solutions to worldwide problems; from stopping power stations releasing carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, to detecting the chemical signals...

Mar 25, 2013 01:47 PM EDT

Lightest Material on Earth Could Mop up Oil Spills: Uses for the Graphene Sponge

The newly-created lightest material on earth, known as a graphene sponge, could help mop up oil spills.

Graphene and molybdenite combine into a flash memory prototype

Mar 21, 2013 05:57 PM EDT

Revolutionary Memory Prototype Combines Graphene And Molybdenite

EPFL scientists presented a flash memory prototype that could very well enable the next series of memory speed and capacity explosions.

Nano-device hardware architecture, graphene antenna

Mar 06, 2013 02:46 PM EST

Graphene Antennas to Reach Terabits of Wireless Bandwidth

A big bottleneck of current data transfer technology, the slow speed of wireless transfers, is now in the early stage of being addressed. Researchers at Georgia Tech have drawn up blueprints for a wireless antenna made from atom-thin sheets of carbon, or graphene, that could allow terabit-per-second...

Mar 05, 2013 06:11 PM EST

Super Effective Camera Chips And Solar Cells Possible With Graphene

Theoretically expected, it was now experimentally proven by scientists for the first time that the fascinating new material graphene is also highly efficient at converting light into electricity--which makes it an ideal candidate to boost the sensitivity of imaging sensors and also to increase the m...

Feb 05, 2013 12:33 PM EST

Graphene Sheet Manufacturing Breakthrough

Another step towards the production and use of graphene has been achieved by a team led by Oxford University scientists by finding a method to reduce defects when growing the promising material. This addresses a key problem of growing graphene by using chemical vapor deposition to form tiny flakes o...