They picked graphite oxide because of its low cost and wide availability, which makes it a promising precursor for making graphene-based materials. They add that, typically, the substance is treated ...

Once enough cars have sped over these fissures, chunks begin breaking off to create those infamous potholes that pop tires ...

Ultrapure graphene is grown in labs under carefully controlled conditions, but Mark Thompson believes that exploiting the material’s properties on a large scale requires a different approach. Here, he ...

A little while back I wrote some of the different ways physicists and engineers are attacking the challenge of making large amounts of high-quality graphene. Graphene is a thin sheet of carbon atoms ...

Graphene, a single layer of graphite with the atoms arranged in a honeycomb-like hexagonal pattern, is one of the theoretically toughest materials in the known universe. Not content with that billing, ...

Dry exfoliation, also called mechanical exfoliation, is the process of splitting a layered material into atomically thin sheets. This type of exfoliation can be carried out both mechanically and ...

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After a year in which its stock price soared more than 2,000%, Canada’s HydroGraph Clean Power Inc. is planning to change its domicile to the US and list on the Nasdaq to tap deeper capital markets ...

Graphene is a revolutionary nanomaterial, the discovery of which led to a Nobel Prize. By mixing graphite with bacteria, Rochester scientists are making graphene easier and more environmentally ...

Graphene has the potential to spur advances in a variety of sectors, from transport to medicine to electronics. Unfortunately, the high cost of graphene production has slowed commercialization.