Sentences with phrase «like graphene these layers»

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«By the time it's out of the oven, the graphene should be fully covering the foil in one layer, kind of like a continuous bed of pizza.»

The method uses a shearing mechanism, somewhat like a cheese slicer, to peel off layers of graphene in a way that causes them to roll up into a scroll - like shape, technically known as an Archimedean spiral.

Performance was further improved by combining the ruthenium - doped carbon nitride with graphene, a sheet - like form of carbon, to form a layered composite.

Like graphene, for whose discovery Andre Geim and Konstantin Novoselov received the Nobel Prize in 2010, these layers possess extraordinary optoelectrical properties.

Some researchers are investigating other promising ways to make graphene an effective semiconductor, like using two - layer graphene along with a special insulating polymer or punching holes in graphene to create a semiconducting «nanomesh,» but it remains to be seen if any of these techniques will produce viable chips.

The team now reports that graphene, with its ultrathin, Teflon - like properties, can be sandwiched between a wafer and its semiconducting layer, providing a barely perceptible, nonstick surface through which the semiconducting material's atoms can still rearrange in the pattern of the wafer's crystals.

Physicist Philip Kim of Columbia University began trying to flake off graphene layers in 2002 by dragging a tiny graphite rod with an atomic force microscope, which is like an exquisitely sensitive phonograph needle.

A piece of graphite is simply a stack of graphene layers loosely stuck to each other, like a deck of cards.

The poor solubility of graphene - like materials has been regarded problematic since the discovery of graphene as an intriguing one - layer carbon modification in 2004.

In many ways, they very broadly resemble something like graphene, which is also a very thin layer of two - dimensional, transparent material.

Called graphene, it is essentially a nanotube unrolled — a single layer of atoms arranged like a honeycomb.

The laser burns away everything but the carbon to a depth of 20 microns on the top layer, which becomes a foam - like matrix of interconnected graphene flakes.

To address the terahertz gap, the team created a hybrid semiconductor: a layer of thick conducting material paired with two thin, two - dimensional crystalline layers made from graphene, silicene (a graphene - like material made from silicon instead of carbon), or a two - dimensional electron gas.

Graphite is essentially made from sheets of graphene stacked together like a deck of cards, and sliding it in the right way can separate the layers.

Scientists at the Advanced Science Research Center (ASRC) at the Graduate Center, CUNY, worked to theorize and test how two layers of graphene — each one - atom thick — could be made to transform into a diamond - like material upon impact at room temperature.

By applying pressure at the nanoscale with an indenter to two layers of graphene, each one - atom thick, CUNY researchers transformed the honeycombed graphene into a diamond - like material at room temperature.

Controlling the concentration, size and shape of fullerene - like spheroids with tailored topological connectivity to graphene layers is expected to yield exceptional and tunable mechanical properties, similar to mechanical metamaterials, with a potentially wide range of applications.

The team created a material that combines semiconducting molecules C60 with layered materials, like graphene and hBN.

How about a graphene layer, that is a single atom thick solid; can it emit a black body like (carbon is black) thermal spectrum.

And, recently, a couple of researchers found out that if you take one layer of graphene and two layers and stack them on top of one another, when a large force contacts the graphene on one side, and pushes the two together, that compacting force actually creates a diamond - like bond between the graphene layers, increasing its strength and potentially leading to next - generation bullet - proof armors.