Focusing on balance between her family, religion and work with carbon nanomaterials, Jing Kong has found a home at MIT and has pioneered a new method of producing large sheets of graphene. A life in academia was a natural career path for Jing Kong, the daughter of two Chinese academics at Tianjin Finance and Economics [...]

Future communication devices may get a big boost in efficiency from terahertz waves and graphene. In a newly published study, scientists at the University of Notre Dame have shown that it is possible to manipulate THz electromagnetic waves with thin layers of graphene. People use electromagnetic energy every day … watching television, listening to the [...]

Graphene is an amazing material offering high strength, transparency and flexibility with excellent electrical and thermal conductivity, all from a single layer of carbon atoms. To further understand and research all the possibilities of graphene, the Graphene Center Laboratory was opened at the University of Bath On May 1st. Forty times stronger than steel and [...]

In an effort to increase solar cell efficiency, scientists at Michigan Technological University are working on a cost effective method that adds graphene to titanium dioxide, increasing its conductivity and bringing 52.4 percent more current into the circuit. The coolest new nanomaterial of the 21st century could boost the efficiency of the next generation of [...]

Just recently Rice University shared news of their 2-D Boron Nanotubes that have advantages over carbon nanotubes and now scientists at MIT have found another compound made from a thin film of bismuth-antimony that shares similarities and complementary properties to graphene. Graphene, a single-atom-thick layer of carbon, has spawned much research into its unique electronic, [...]

Scientists at Rice University used the notion of Swiss cheese to analyze the possible configurations of two-dimensional sheets of boron. They found that these 2-D sheets of boron, when rolled into tubes, could have a distinct advantage over carbon nanotubes since boron nanotubes are always metallic, avoiding the challenge of selecting a particular symmetry. When [...]

As technology moves forward, things get smaller, faster and now possibly transparent. A team of scientists have developed transparent, flexible memory chips that may one day replace flash drives and other personal data storage devices. New memory chips that are transparent, flexible enough to be folded like a sheet of paper, shrug off 1,000-degree Fahrenheit [...]

By coating a DVD disc with a film of graphite oxide that is then laser treated inside a LightScribe DVD drive to produce graphene electrodes, researchers were able to demonstrate high-performance graphene-based electrochemical capacitors that can be charged and discharged a hundred to a thousand times faster than conventional batteries. Electrochemical capacitors (ECs), also known [...]

The first ever electrons with tunable properties were observed at the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory. By repositioning the carbon monoxide molecules that were placed on a perfectly smooth copper surface, the team was able to tune the electrons’ properties. Menlo Park, California — Researchers from Stanford University and the U.S. Department of Energy’s SLAC National [...]

It has been extremely difficult to create graphene-based devices that reliably operate at room temperature and pressure, until now. By submerging sheets of graphene in electrically neutral liquids, the physicists at Vanderbilt believe they have found the source of the interference inhibiting the rapid flow of electrons through graphene-based devices and have achieved record-level mobility. [...]

Physicists at the Technische Universitaet Muenchen developed a method to increase the time resolution of photocurrent measurements in graphene into the picosecond range. While conducting their research, they were able to monitor precisely how the photocurrent in the graphene is generated and found evidence that graphene emits radiation in the terahertz range when optically stimulated. [...]

Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) produced the first ever 3-D images of an individual protein. Using a technique they call “individual-particle electron tomography,” or IPET, these researchers were able to capture images of a single IgG antibody and apolipoprotein A-1 (ApoA-1.) When Gang Ren whirls the [...]