Old Tires Turned Into Graphene That Makes Stronger Concrete
Rice University lab’s optimized flash process could reduce carbon emissions. This could be where the rubber truly hits the road. Rice University scientists have optimized…
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Surprising Entropy Measurements Reveal Exotic Effect in “Magic-Angle” Graphene
Researchers at the Weizmann Institute of Science and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology discover a surprising phase transition in twisted bilayer graphene. Most materials go…
Terahertz Imaging of Graphene Paves the Way to Optimization and Industrialization
Graphene Flagship researchers have developed a new measurement standard for the analysis of graphene and layered materials that could accelerate production and optimize device fabrication….
Breakthrough Means a Sustainable, Powerful Micro-Supercapacitor May Be on the Horizon
A sustainable, powerful micro-supercapacitor may be on the horizon, thanks to an international collaboration of researchers from Penn State and the University of Electronic Science…
Quantum Building Blocks to Produce Exotic Electronic and Magnetic Properties
Oak Ridge National Laboratory scientists demonstrated that an electron microscope can be used to selectively remove carbon atoms from graphene’s atomically thin lattice and stitch…
Quantum Tunneling in Graphene Advances the Age of High Speed Terahertz Wireless Communications
Scientists from MIPT, Moscow Pedagogical State University and the University of Manchester have created a highly sensitive terahertz detector based on the effect of quantum-mechanical…
Artificial “Magnetic Texture” Induced in Graphene – May Lead to Powerful Quantum Computers
Quantum science advancement could help lead to powerful spintronic devices, such as semiconductors and quantum computers. Graphene is incredibly strong, lightweight, conductive … the list…
Graphene “Nano-Origami” Creates Tiniest Microchips Yet – Could Make Computers and Phones Thousands of Times Faster
Nanomaterial developments could lead to computers and phones running thousands of times faster. The tiniest microchips yet can be made from graphene and other 2D-materials,…
Physicists Discover Important and Unexpected Electronic Property of Graphene – Could Power Next-Generation Computers
Unconventional form of ferroelectricity could impact next-generation computing. MIT researchers and colleagues recently discovered an important — and unexpected — electronic property of graphene, a…
A Magnetic Twist to Graphene Could Offer a Dramatic Increase in Processing Speeds Compared to Electronics
By combining ferromagnets and two rotated layers of graphene, researchers open up a new platform for strongly interacting states using graphene’s unique quantum degree of…
Increasing Optical Data Transmission Speed by a Factor of at Least 10,000
A pulsed-laser repetition rate of 57.8 GHz was achieved by inserting a resonator containing graphene. The limitations of the manufacturing process were overcome by directly…
A New Kind of Magnetism Formed by “Magnetic Graphene” – Could Reveal Secrets of Superconductivity
Researchers have identified a new form of magnetism in so-called magnetic graphene, which could point the way toward understanding superconductivity in this unusual type of…
Charges Cascading Along a Molecular Chain: Paving the Way for Information Transfer in Tiny Circuits
Removing one charged molecule from a one-dimensional array causes the others to alternately turn ‘on’ or ‘off,’ paving the way for information transfer in tiny…
Harvard Scientists Trilayer Graphene Breakthrough Opens the Door for High Temperature Superconductors
In 2018, the physics world was set ablaze with the discovery that when an ultrathin layer of carbon, called graphene, is stacked and twisted to…
“The Biggest Bang” – Physicists Create Tunable Superconductivity in Twisted Graphene “Nanosandwich”
Structure may reveal conditions needed for high-temperature superconductivity. When two sheets of graphene are stacked atop each other at just the right angle, the layered…
Efficiently Converting Light Energy Into Surface Waves on Graphene
Dotty graphene and doping: Whatever it takes for Russia’s record plasmonics to shine. Physicists from MIPT and Vladimir State University, Russia, have achieved a nearly…
Quantum Entanglement of Electrons Using Heat
Quantum entanglement is key for next-generation computing and communications technology, Aalto researchers can now produce it using temperature differences. A joint group of scientists from…
Supercapacitors Challenge Batteries: Powerful Graphene Hybrid Material for Highly Efficient Energy Storage
A team working with Roland Fischer, Professor of Inorganic and Metal-Organic Chemistry at the Technical University Munich (TUM) has developed a highly efficient supercapacitor. The…