Everything seems to be getting smarter these daysâWe have smart phones, smart computers and now we have âsmart skin.â Thanks to a group of researchers at Seol National University, prosthetics have gotten a whole lot smarter with smart skin. This ...
New Sensor â 1000 Times More Sensitive to Light!
The new groundbraking graphene sensor (Credit: Nanyang Technological University) Engineers from Singapore have created a new type of camera sensor made from graphene that is said to be 1,000 times more sensitive to light than current imaging sensors. Researchers from ...
Stretching Graphene
Physicists from the University of California, Berkeley, and the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory have recently presented an innovativew technique to utilize graphene, a pure carbon sheet used in the semiconductor industry. The new study offers ways to stretch graphene, making ...
A Peek at the Worldâs Thinnest Material
Researchers at Northwestern University have recently found an innovative method to see the worldâs thinnest material, graphene. Using dye fluorescein â a known chemical, used in many fields and industries â the team introduced a new imaging technique to view ...
Graphene-based Insulator Developed
Researchers at the University of Manchester have developed a revolutionary material named graphane (with an âaâ). The new material was obtained from graphene through a technique that reacted graphene with other substances to materialize new compounds with distinctive characteristics, which ...
Tuning Grapheneâs Nature
Researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute have revealed an innovative technique for controlling the nature of graphene. This achievement brings academia and industry nearer to the realization of being able to mass produce graphene-based nanoelectronics. Graphene was uncovered in 2004 and ...
Carbon Material to Store Renewable Energy
Engineers and scientists from the University of Texas in Austin have recently discovered the use of graphene, a relatively new, one-atom thick carbon based material, as a means to store electrical charge in an ultracapacitor. This new breakthrough could ultimately ...
Smaller, Speedier Computer Chips
A group of researchers led by Hongjie Dai, Professor of Chemistry at Stanford University, have developed a new technique for making transistors out of carbon nanoribbons. The new âfield-effect transistorsâ are a critical component of computer chips and are made ...
Graphene Semiconductors
Physicists at the University of Maryland have proven that graphene holds great promise for replacing conventional semiconductor materials such as silicon in applications ranging from high-speed computer chips to biochemical sensors. At room temperature, grapheneâs intrinsic limit to the mobility ...
Worldâs Smallest Transistor
Dr. Kostya Novoselov and Professor Andre Geim from The School of Physics and Astronomy at The University of Manchester have recently shown that graphene can be carved into tiny electronic circuits with individual transistors not much larger than that of ...