Semiconducting Graphene Ribbons Developed for Electronics and Quantum Computing
A team of physicists and chemists has produced the first porous graphene ribbons in which specific carbon atoms in the crystal lattice are replaced with…
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Dirac Electrons Come Back to Life in Magic-Angle Graphene – Unusual Breaking of Symmetry
A new symmetry-broken parent state discovered in twisted bilayer graphene. In 2018 it was discovered that two layers of graphene twisted one with respect to…
Chemists Achieve Breakthrough in the Synthesis of Graphene Nanoribbons
Graphene Nanoribbons might soon be much easier to produce. An international research team led by Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg (MLU), the University of Tennessee and…
Unfathomable Miniaturization: Smallest Cavity for Light Realized by Graphene Plasmons
Miniaturization has enabled so many unfathomable dreams. Shrinking down electronic circuits has allowed us to access technology like smartphones, health watches, medical probes, nano-satellites, unthinkable…
Manipulating the Flow of Light in Extreme Ways Using “Magic Angle” Twistronics
‘Twisted’ layers of 2D materials produce photonic topological transition at ‘magic’ rotation angles. Monash researchers are part of an international collaboration applying ‘twistronics’ concepts (the…
New Generation of Lightweight, Flexible Solar Cells and Display Screens Using Transparent Graphene Electrodes
New roll-to-roll production method could enable lightweight, flexible solar devices and a new generation of display screens. A new way of making large sheets of…
Progressing Electronics Beyond Moore’s Law With Graphene and 2D Materials
A team of researchers based in Manchester, the Netherlands, Singapore, Spain, Switzerland and the USA has published a new review on a field of computer…
Some Precious Metals – Such As Gold and Silver – Lose Their Conductive Property, If They Are Thin Enough
For the first time, it is possible to produce crystalline layers of precious metals that consist of a single atomic layer and which are semiconducting….
One Atom Thick Graphene Light Sail Could Speed Journey to Other Star Systems
A tiny sail made of the thinnest material known – one carbon-atom-thick graphene – has passed initial tests designed to show that it could be…
Unraveling the “Magic” Magnetism of a Triangular Graphene Flake
Graphene is a diamagnetic material, this is, unable of becoming magnetic. However, a triangular piece of graphene is predicted to be magnetic. This apparent contradiction…
Tiny Twists Mapped in “Magic-Angle” Graphene Could Enable Quantum Computing Devices
Results could help designers engineer high-temperature superconductors and quantum computing devices. Made of a single layer of carbon atoms linked in a hexagonal honeycomb pattern,…
Graphene Nanomesh: New Nanotechnology ‘Brick’ for Modern Micromachines
Researchers at Japan advanced institute of science and technology (JAIST) have successfully fabrication the suspended graphene nanomesh in a large area by the helium ion…
Laser-Propulsion of Graphene Sails in Microgravity
Overseas exploration and trade during the Age of Discovery (15th-17th centuries) were possible by sail technology, and deep-space exploration will require the same for the…
Faster Electrons From Flatter Graphene
Bumps on a road slow down our pace, so do corrugations in graphene to traveling electrons. By flattening the corrugations out, we help electrons move…
Coupled Quantum Dots May Offer a New Way to Store Quantum Information
Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and their colleagues have for the first time created and imaged a novel pair of…
New Graphene–Carbon Nanotube Catalyst Could Ignite Clean Energy Revolution
Researchers developed a promising graphene–carbon nanotube catalyst, giving them better control over hugely important chemical reactions for producing hydrogen fuel. Fuel cells and water electrolyzers…
Ultra-Sensitive Cancer DNA Detector Created With Crumpled Graphene
Graphene-based biosensors could usher in an era of liquid biopsy, detecting DNA cancer markers circulating in a patient’s blood or serum. But current designs need…
Unlocking Hidden Frequencies in the Electromagnetic Spectrum With a New Graphene Amplifier
Researchers have created a unique device that will unlock the elusive terahertz wavelengths and make revolutionary new technologies possible. Terahertz waves (THz) sit between microwaves…