Sentences with phrase «like graphene»

The wallpaper is made from fire - resistant materials like graphene oxide and hydroxyapatite nanowires.

Johnson: This whole notion of the potential of new materials that are 2D like graphene are spurring scientists to look at other 2D materials.

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

Chemical vapor deposition, widely employed to synthesize 2D materials like graphene, was used to make perfectly triangular crystal monolayers of molybdenum diselenide just three atoms thick.

Like graphene, BP is a semiconductor and also cheap to mass produce.

• Graphene meets the standard for industry (Mar 2018) • Atomic force microscopy — 30 years on (May 2016) • Nacre - like graphene composite is stronger and tougher (Oct 2017)

This so - called beta - GeSe compound has a ring type structure like graphene and its monolayer form could have similarly valuable properties for electronic applications, according to the study published in the Journal of the American Chemical Society.

For instance, autonomous vehicles could eventually prevent tens of thousands of road deaths; optogenetics — using genetic engineering and light to manipulate brain cell activity — could help cure or manage debilitating neurological diseases; and materials like graphene could ensure more people than ever have access to cheap clean water.

Just a few materials have these features and it looks like graphene has joined this exclusive club.

Reduced graphene oxide behaves more like graphene, which has useful properties such as conductivity.

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

Recently, scientists all over the world are investigating the properties and applications of extremely thin 2D materials, just one - atom - thick, like graphene.

Like graphene, boron nitride nanosheets are two dimensional, but instead of conducting electricity like graphene they resist and insulate against it.

Fine - tuning becomes critically important as materials scientists test more 2 - D materials like graphene and nanotubes for use as electrodes.

There seems to be little doubt that this material will soon play an important role in materials science all over the world, much like graphene has in the last couple of years.

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

Like graphene, it can be exfoliated into atomically thin sheets.

Within the honeycomb - like lattices of monolayers like graphene, boron nitride, and graphane, the atoms rapidly vibrate in place.

However, the situation is different in the case of low - dimensional materials like graphene.

Researchers at Nangyang Technological University have developed a fast - charging titanium dioxide anode, and Mark Hersam's team at Northwestern has doubled the capacity of a lithium - ion anode by interlacing materials like graphene.

Not exact matches

Startups like Ottawa, Ontario - based Grafoid, a graphene - focused business development firm, are tackling the production challenge head - on.

Research from Alberta Canada shows graphene - like carbon nanosheets made from hemp can perform well as a super capacitor battery.

A few years ago, his lab made graphene oxide — a functional form of graphene — and fabricated it into a multilayer, micrometer - thick, paper - like membrane.

Carbon nanomaterials such as fullerenes, nanotubes, and graphene have outstanding physical properties associated with their low dimensionality and graphite - like chemical bonding.

«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 system gives you a great degree of flexibility in terms of what you'd like to tune graphene for, all the way from electronic to membrane applications,» Kidambi says.

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.

Their cores may be fluid, but their outer surfaces are solid and extremely tough — making graphene, the strongest material on Earth, look like tissue paper by comparison.

In early testing, a three - dimensional (3D) fiber - like supercapacitor made with the uninterrupted fibers of carbon nanotubes and graphene matched or bettered — by a factor of four — the reported record - high capacities for this type of device.

Neutron scattering at the Department of Energy's (DOE's) Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) helped a multi-institutional team led by Tulane University investigate a graphene - like strontium - manganese - antimony material (Sr1 - yMn1 - zSb2) that hosts what researchers suspect is a Weyl semimetal phase.

Unlike graphene, the team's material exhibits traditional magnetism, or ferromagnetism, meaning the electrons align in a parallel arrangement like the north and south poles of a typical bar magnet.

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.

Just one atom thick, graphene can be folded like plastic film, yet is stronger than diamond and conducts electricity better than copper or gold

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

Graphene's characteristics and near two - dimensionality recommend it for use in next - generation displays, electronics or structural composites, but like many materials du jour, it has yet to find applications on a significant scale.

For example, it suggests that graphene could be used to make a transistor - like device in a superconducting circuit, and that its superconductivity could be incorporated into molecular electronics.

Folding up a single sheet of graphene according to the principles of the Japanese art of origami could result in tiny devices like nano - robots and flexible circuits

Various methods of making graphene - based field effect transistors (FETs) have been exploited, including doping graphene tailoring graphene - like a nanoribbon, and using boron nitride as a support.

Graphene is a honeycomb - like arrangement of carbon atoms only one carbon atom thick.

The team used a bidirectional freezing technique that they previously developed to assemble a new type of biomimetic graphene aerogel that had an architecture like that of the plant's stem.

Electron transport in graphene is described by a Dirac - like equation, which allows the investigation of relativistic quantum phenomena in a benchtop experiment.

Lately we've been working on graphene, which is a sheet one atom thick, made entirely of carbon atoms arranged in a hexagonal structure like chicken wire.

A graphene hinge is more like a paper fold.

«Closely packed, the crumpled graphene balls operate like a highly uniform, continuous solid,» said Jiayan Luo, the paper's co-corresponding author and professor of chemical engineering at Tianjin University in China.

When you push a single sheet of graphene with a probe, it crinkles up a little like cellophane, but it doesn't rip.

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.

Like tiny superscrubbers, these charged molecules effectively scour the copper of surface imperfections providing a pristine surface on which to grow graphene.

Like drums in regular drumsets, graphene membranes at the nanoscale possess a distinct set of oscillating modes that correspond to specific oscillation frequencies.

The resulting products display a foam - like porous structure, ideal for maximizing the benefits of graphene, with the porosity tunable from ultra-light to highly dense through simple changes in experimental conditions.

In a study published in Nature Nanotechnology, researchers from Cornell University and the University of Jyväskylä, working with funding from the Academy of Finland, show that by applying an appropriate external force, a circular graphene membrane can be «played» like a drumset.