Sentences with phrase «from sheets of graphene»

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.

Graphite, the form of carbon found in pencil lead, is essentially made from sheets of graphene stacked together like a deck of cards.

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Hui Huang from A * STAR's Singapore Institute of Manufacturing Technology and his colleagues from Nanyang Technological University and Jinan University, China, have fabricated asymmetric supercapacitors which incorporate metal nitride electrodes with stacked sheets of graphene.

SUPER SHEET Simple blender blades can slough off graphene, single - atom - thick layers of carbon, from graphite.

Researchers discovered graphene, or one - atom - thick sheets of carbon, by mechanically peeling progressively finer layers from raw flakes of graphite, the same stuff found in pencil lead (See: «Carbon Wonderland,» by Andre K. Geim and Philip Kim, in the April issue of Scientific American).

Using a technique that introduces tiny wrinkles into sheets of graphene, researchers from Brown University have developed new textured surfaces for culturing cells in the lab that better mimic the complex surroundings in which cells grow in the body.

«Graphene is a thin sheet of a naturally occurring mineral, graphite, so we would be sending it back to the ground from which it came along with the wood platform instead of to a landfill full of electronics parts.»

Researchers at Rice University have created flexible, patterned sheets of multilayer graphene from a cheap polymer by burning it with a computer - controlled laser.

«The direct growth of anchored MoSoy nanocrystals on graphene sheets may enhance the formation of strongly coupled hybrid materials with intimate, seamless electron transfer pathways, thus accelerating the electron transfer rate for the chemical desorption of hydrogen from the catalyst, further reducing the energy required for the reaction to take place,» Sasaki said.

In the journal Optical Materials Express, from The Optical Society (OSA), the researchers reported that graphene oxide sheets treated with brief exposure to bright light in the form of a camera flash exhibited reversible bending at angles from zero to 85 degrees in response to switching the relative humidity between 33 and 86 percent.

A camera flash allowed the researchers to remove oxygen from, or reduce, just one side of a sheet of graphene oxide.

«To be able to spontaneously change the structure of graphene from single sheets to a spherical assembly is hugely significant.

An electron microscope image shows flake - like nanoplatelets made of graphene quantum dots drawn from coal and graphene oxide sheets, modified with boron and nitrogen.

Tour and his group discovered last year that heating a commercial polyimide plastic sheet with a laser burned everything but the carbon from the top layer, leaving a form of graphene.

An interdisciplinary team of engineers from the University of Pennsylvania has made a discovery regarding the surface properties of graphene, the Nobel - prize winning material that consists of an atomically thin sheet of carbon atoms.

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.

In a newly published paper in Nature Nanotechnology («Ultrahard carbon film from epitaxial two - layer graphene»), researchers across The City University of New York (CUNY) describe a process for creating diamene: flexible, layered sheets of graphene that temporarily become harder than diamond and impenetrable upon impact.

The graphene work that netted the Nobel Prize for Andre K. Geim and Konstantin S. (Kostya) Novoselov involved isolating one - atom - thin sheets of carbon from graphite.

Literally taking inspiration from a trashcan of scrunched up paper, the engineers came up with a way of crumpling graphene sheets into balls by first atomizing them into tiny water droplets.

When the next stoplight turned yellow, we feared bursting through the intersection and passing under the invisible sheet of graphene that separates the world from the Kardashian's reality show.

What makes the display «unbreakable» is not the Graphene (which is a single - atom thick sheet of carbon atoms) it is the fact that you replace the currently used glas substrate with one made from plastic.

She has produced new work out of graphene, an incredibly strong sheet of pure carbon just one atom thick that Novoselov has made from samples of graphite in drawings by William Blake RA and JMW Turner RA.

Through such a device, electrical charge can be rapidly stored on the graphene sheets, and released from them as well for the delivery of electrical current and, thus, electrical power.