Tag: Graphene

Graphene and an Intense Laser Open the Door to the Extreme

February 16, 2022
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Osaka, Japan – Laser-driven ion acceleration has been studied to develop a compact and efficient plasma-based accelerator, which is applicable to cancer therapy, nuclear fusion, and high energy physics....

Columns Designed from Nanographenes

February 7, 2022
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Würzburg, Germany — Graphene is a carbon material that forms extremely thin layers. Because of its unusual properties, it is interesting for many technical applications. This also applies to polycyclic...

2D Material in Three Dimensions

January 31, 2022
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Vienna, Austria — The carbon material graphene has no well-defined thickness, it merely consists of one single layer of atoms. It is therefore often referred to as a “two-dimensional material”....

Exotic Quantum Particles — Less Magnetic Field Required

December 15, 2021
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Cambridge, MA — Exotic quantum particles and phenomena are like the world’s most daring elite athletes. Like the free solo climbers who scale impossibly steep cliff faces without a rope or harness,...

Development of a Single-Process Platform for the Manufacture of Graphene Quantum Dots

December 3, 2021
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Sejong-si, Korea — Graphene consists of a planar structure, with carbon atoms connected in a hexagonal shape that resembles a beehive. When graphene is reduced to several nanometers (nm) in size, it...

Graphene Binds Drugs which Kill Bacteria on Medical Implants

August 12, 2021
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Gothenburg, Sweden — Bacterial infections relating to medical implants place a huge burden on healthcare and cause great suffering to patients worldwide. Now, researchers at Chalmers University of...

Graphene Nanoparticles and Their Influence on Neurons

March 11, 2021
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Trieste, Italy — Effective, specific, with a reversible and non-harmful action: the identikit of the perfect biomaterial seems to correspond to graphene flakes, the subject of a new study carried out...

Capturing the Contours of Live Cells with Novel Nanoimaging Technique Using Graphene

February 18, 2021
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Daegu, South Korea — With every passing day, human technology becomes more refined and we become slightly better equipped to look deeper into biological processes and molecular and cellular structures,...

Remote Control for Neurons

June 2, 2020
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Pittsburgh, PA — A team led by researchers at Carnegie Mellon University has created a new technology that enhances scientists’ ability to communicate with neural cells using light. Tzahi Cohen-Karni,...

Graphene: The More You Bend It, The Softer It Gets

November 14, 2019
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Champaign, IL — New research by engineers at the University of Illinois combines atomic-scale experimentation with computer modelling to determine how much energy it takes to bend multilayer graphene...

Graphene Substrate Improves Conductivity of Carbon Nanotube Network

October 10, 2019
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Espoo, Finland — Transparent conductive films (TCFs) have many applications in touch screens, organic light emitting diodes and solar cells. These applications need materials that are strong, energy...

Graphene Layer Enables Advance in Super-Resolution Microscopy

September 3, 2019
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Göttingen, Germany — Researchers at the University of Göttingen have developed a new method that takes advantage of the unusual properties of graphene to electromagnetically interact with fluorescing...

Graphene Superconductor That Plays More Than One Tune

July 18, 2019
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Berkeley, CA — Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) have developed a graphene device that’s thinner than a human hair but...

Will Future Computer be Made Using Bacteria?

July 11, 2019
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Rochester, NY — In order to create new and more efficient computers, medical devices, and other advanced technologies, researchers are turning to nanomaterials: materials manipulated on the scale of...

Using Graphene and Tiny Droplets to Detect Stomach-Cancer Causing Bacteria

June 20, 2019
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Osaka, Japan — Biosensors are currently used in healthcare to monitor blood glucose; however, they also have the potential to detect bacteria. Researchers at Osaka University have invented a new biosensor...

How to Purify Water with Graphene

April 29, 2019
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Moscow, Russia — Scientists from the National University of Science and Technology “MISIS” together with their colleagues from Derzhavin Tambov State University and Saratov Chernyshevsky...

Squeezed Nanocrystals: New Model Predicts Their Shape When Blanketed Under Graphene

April 8, 2019
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Ames, IA — In a collaboration between the U.S. Department of Energy’s Ames Laboratory and Northeastern University, scientists have developed a model for predicting the shape of metal nanocrystals...

Large, Stable Pieces of Graphene Produced with Unique Edge Pattern

January 31, 2019
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Erlangen, Germany — Graphene is a promising material for use in nanoelectronics. Its electronic properties depend greatly, however, on how the edges of the carbon layer are formed. Zigzag patterns...

Spikes of Graphene Can Kill Bacteria on Implants, Says Study

April 17, 2018
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Göteborg, Sweden — A tiny layer of graphene flakes becomes a deadly weapon and kills bacteria, stopping infections during procedures such as implant surgery. This is the findings of new research from...

Graphene Forged into Three-Dimensional Shapes

September 27, 2017
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Vantaa, Finland — Researchers from Finland and Taiwan have discovered how graphene, a single-atom-thin layer of carbon, can be forged into three-dimensional objects by using laser light.

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