Sentences with phrase «flat graphene sheets»
In a study published recently in the journal Carbon, the team grew human and mouse fibroblast cells (cells involved in wound healing) on flat graphene sheets and on wrinkled ones.
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Rafiee is developing a way to line a hydrogen vehicle's fuel tank with a one - atom - thick layer of graphene, essentially a sheet of single - walled carbon nanotubes that have been opened up and laid flat, so that the tank can better store and release hydrogen.
Among other things, they can now better predict the behavior of electrons in graphene, a flat sheet of carbon just a single atom thick, which acts like a strange metal under certain conditions.
Rather than a flat sheet of hexagonal carbon atoms, LIG is a foam of graphene sheets with one edge attached to the underlying surface and chemically active edges exposed to the air.
Researchers from the University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign have come up with a way of creating 3D objects out of flat sheets of graphene, opening up the possibility of creating a whole new range of innovative electronic devices.
However, in all of these instances, graphene in its original form of atom - thin, flat sheets has had to be used with peripheral supports and structures because it lacks a solid shape and form of its own.