Sentences with phrase «made of graphene»

In the W - TENG, plastic was swapped for a multipart fiber made of graphene — a single layer of graphite, or pencil lead — and a biodegradable polymer known as polylactic acid (PLA).

A new 3D - printing ink could soon make it possible to build objects made of graphene for 60 percent of their volume and 75 percent of their weight.

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.

Made of graphene and carbon nanotubes, the researchers» detector far outpaces any existing one in its ultrasensitivity to charged particles, minuscule size, low - power requirements, and low cost.

Although the new scenario is based on a mathematical study and computer simulations, the proposed hardware of the sail is already being developed in laboratories today: «The sail could be made of graphene, an extremely thin and light but mega-tough carbon film,» René Heller says.

The researchers became the first to design a ferroelectric junction with electrodes made of graphene, a carbon material only one atom thick.

An international research team has developed inks made of graphene - like materials for inkjet printing.

Researchers team has developed inks made of graphene - like materials for inkjet printing.

«Easy printing of biosensors made of graphene.»

In the W - TENG, plastic was swapped for a multipart fiber made of graphene — a single layer of graphite, or pencil lead — and a biodegradable polymer known as poly - lactic acid (PLA).

«Super-stretchable yarn is made of graphene.»

Shepard is part of a team of scientists from Columbia and IBM working under a $ 4 million grant from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to develop field - effect transistors made of graphene, which is particularly good at amplifying weak signals at high frequencies.

You've also been designing hinges made of graphene, which would be a necessary part of any kind of nanoscale machine.

Not exact matches

Asked how far out he reckons graphene is from finding its way into real world electronics, he added: «While considerable challenges still exist, some great steps forward have been made over the past year or so and I expect high - tech applications of graphene in consumer technologies to appear in the general market within the next 2 - 3 years.

Made up of two layers of graphene, a form of carbon arranged in single - atom - thick sheets, the structure's weird behavior suggests it may provide a fruitful playground for testing how certain unusual types of superconductors work, physicist Pablo Jarillo - Herrero of MIT...

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.

A frenzy for two - dimensional materials kicked off in 2004 with the creation of graphene — made from just a single layer, or monolayer, of carbon atoms.

A single sheet of graphene resembles atomically thin chicken wire and is composed of carbon atoms joined in a pattern that makes the material extremely tough and impervious to even the smallest atom, helium.

Trinity College's Coleman says that the solution - based exfoliation methods, which to date produce graphene up to several tens of microns wide, are probably best suited for «middle - size industrial quantities, whereas the Intels of the world will likely be more interested in growing huge areas of graphene using CVD - type processes,» which so far can make samples up to a few square centimeters.

Made up of two layers of graphene, a form of carbon arranged in single - atom - thick sheets, the structure's weird behavior suggests it may provide a fruitful playground for testing how certain unusual types of superconductors work, physicist Pablo Jarillo - Herrero of MIT reported March 7 at a meeting of the American Physical Society.

Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and elsewhere are looking to make graphene using chemical vapor deposition (CVD), an established process that could be readily integrated into microchip fabrication.

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.

Making small amounts is surprisingly easy, states graphene's discoverer, Andre K. Geim of the University of Manchester in England.

«By making contact only to the 1D edge of graphene, we have developed a fundamentally new way to bridge our 3D world to this fascinating 2D world without disturbing its inherent properties.

The unexpected discovery of self - folding abilities in graphene suggests we're closer to making the single - atom sheets into useful electronic components

To make their film stronger, they repeated the initial steps, layering four sheets of graphene atop one another.

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.

The researchers found that the act of sliding causes graphene atoms to make better contact with the object sliding along it; this increase in the quality of contact leads to the increase in friction as sliding proceeds and eventually levels off.

A method for making large amounts of the wonder material graphene is so simple that it can be done with kitchen appliances and Fairy Liquid

Researchers have found a way to trigger the innate, but previously hidden, ability of graphene to act as a superconductor — meaning that it can be made to carry an electrical current with zero resistance.

It is hoped that graphene - oxide membrane systems can be built on smaller scales making this technology accessible to countries which do not have the financial infrastructure to fund large plants without compromising the yield of fresh water produced.

Electrochemical capacitors made with compressed gels of chemically converted graphene exhibit high energy density.

The unique electronic features of graphene, combined with its flexible nature, make it a promising material to integrate into plastic and fabric, something that will be important building blocks in a future interconnected world.

The secret is to intercalate atoms or Pb islands below the sea of hexagons of carbon that make up graphene.

Now, researchers report in ACS Nano that mimicking the structure of the «powdery alligator - flag» plant has enabled them to make a graphene - based aerogel that meets these needs.

Carbon nanotubes are tiny hexagonal tubes, made by rolling sheets of graphene, said Rasel Das, first author of the paper.

Dr Joshi said: «The new treatment system is made by converting naturally occurring graphite into graphene oxide membranes that allow high water flow at atmospheric pressure, while removing virtually all of the organic matter.»

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.

He made the particles by atomizing a dispersion of graphene - based sheets into tiny water droplets.

Lately, we've been making lots of tiny graphene resonators.

Scientists studying graphene's properties are using a new mathematical framework to make extremely accurate characterizations of the two - dimensional material's shape.

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.

Researchers who study or are working to make pillared graphene have primarily viewed two characteristics of the theoretical material: the length of the pillars and their distance from each other.

Work by Yeh's group and international collaborators later revealed that graphene made using the new technique is of higher quality than graphene made using conventional methods: It is stronger because it contains fewer defects that could weaken its mechanical strength, and it has the highest electrical mobility yet measured for synthetic graphene.

«Typically, it takes about ten hours and nine to ten different steps to make a batch of high - mobility graphene using high - temperature growth methods,» Yeh says.

While coating the electrode surface with a thin layer of carbon or graphene had been shown to improve performance, there was no microscopic and quantitative understanding of why this made a difference, Bazant says.

The tips of these MWCNTs are made of deployed graphene sheets.

Working with graphene - related research is about breaking new ground which involves many difficult challenges, but eventually our work can revolutionise the future of communication and that's what makes it so exciting,» says Andrei Vorobiev, senior researcher at Chalmers University of Technology.

Gurpreet Singh, assistant professor of mechanical and nuclear engineering, and his student researchers are the first to demonstrate that a composite paper — made of interleaved molybdenum disulfide and graphene nanosheets — can be both an active material to efficiently store sodium atoms and a flexible current collector.

The team used a plasma - enhanced chemical vapour deposition (PECVD) process to grow the carbon nanotubes, while optimizing the plasma growth conditions to produce MWCNTs with tips made of deployed graphene sheets.