Not exact matches
That said, we're still waiting for a host
of «promising»
graphene - based
technology to actually become usable products.
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.
Paragraf, a UK
graphene technology development company, a recent spin out from the University
of Cambridge, closed a # 2.9 m seed funding round.
The funding will therefore support research in the newly emerging area
of inorganic
graphene analogous, with the ultimate aim to revolutionise a wide range
of technologies spanning from energy conversion, energy storage, photonics, large area electronics on unconventional substrates and geometries, electronic textile, sensors and spintronics.»
A new manufacturing process produces strips
of graphene, at large scale, for use in membrane
technologies and other applications.
The ability to modulate the physical properties
of graphene oxide within electronic components could have numerous applications in
technology.
Diamond, carbon nanotubes and
graphene — the last the subject
of the 2010 Nobel Prize in Physics — all have unique physical and chemical qualities and applications to
technology.
Whereas there are many difficulties in the synthesis
of graphene, the team
of researchers at Ulsan National Institute
of Science and
Technology (UNIST) and Pohang University
of Science and
Technology in South Korea synthesized nitrogenated 2D crystals using a simple chemical reaction in liquid phase without using a template.
Qing Li, a former postdoctoral fellow in Sun's lab and now a professor at Huazhong University
of Science and
Technology in China, thought a catalyst that combines copper nanoparticles with
graphene might be effective.
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.
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.
This work represents a first step towards the use
of graphene in research as well as clinical neural devices, showing that
graphene - based
technologies can deliver the high resolution and high SNR needed for these applications.
Graphene neural interfaces have shown already great potential, but we have to improve on the yield and homogeneity
of the device production in order to advance towards a real
technology.
A team
of researchers from nanoGUNE, ICFO and Graphenea — members
of the EU
Graphene Flagship — now demonstrates that the antenna concept
of radio wave
technology could be a promising solution.
The research was led by Dr Angelo Di Bernardo and Dr Jason Robinson, Fellows at St John's College, University
of Cambridge, alongside collaborators Professor Andrea Ferrari, from the Cambridge
Graphene Centre; Professor Oded Millo, from the Hebrew University
of Jerusalem, and Professor Jacob Linder, at the Norwegian University
of Science and
Technology in Trondheim.
The Ulsan National Institute
of Science and
Technology (UNIST) research team led by Prof. Jong - Beom Baek have discovered an efficient method for the mass production
of boron / nitrogen co-doped
graphene nanoplatelets (BCN -
graphene) via a simple solvothermal reaction
of BBr3 / CCl4 / N2 in the presence
of potassium.
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.
Now Ed Conrad at the Georgia Institute
of Technology in Atlanta and colleagues have found a simple way to give
graphene this switching ability.
Prof Andrea Ferrari (University
of Cambridge, UK), Chair
of the
Graphene Flagship Management Panel, and the Flagship's Science and
Technology Officer, also co-authored the research.
Professor Andrea C. Ferrari, Science and
Technology Officer
of the
Graphene Flagship, and Chair
of its Management Panel, added «While the flagship is driving the development
of novel applications, in particular in the field
of photonics and optoelectronics, we do not lose sight
of fundamental research.
Then postdoctoral fellow Pablo Jarillo - Herrero (now an assistant professor
of physics at Massachusetts Institute
of Technology) took time out to show us how the researchers prepare
graphene for study.
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.
«Typically, a researcher costs about $ 100,000 a year in Europe, so this translates into 700 person - years,» says Jari Kinaret
of Chalmers University
of Technology in Gothenburg, Sweden, who coordinates the
graphene project.
The W - TENG is 3 - D printed out
of a
graphene - PLA nanofiber (A), creating the bottom electrode
of the
technology (B).
Examples
of new products enabled by
graphene technologies include fast, flexible and strong consumer electronics, such as electronic paper and bendable personal communication devices, as well as lighter and more energy - efficient aeroplanes.
Since the discovery
of the Nobel Prize winning material
graphene, many new nanomaterials promise to deliver exciting new photonic and optoelectronic
technologies.
Led by the Chalmers University
of Technology, Sweden, the CONCEPTGRAPHENE (5) project set out to unlock the potential
of depositing a thin layer
of graphene on to a silicon carbide (SiC) base — aiming to develop scalable electronics with potential applications in «spintronics» and ultra-accurate measuring devices.
It is a novel
technology since it uses
graphene for the first time as a support
of organometallic compounds.
Georgia Institute
of Technology researchers have described a way
of making
graphene that preserves the material's conductive properties, an early step toward
graphene — silicon electronics
The researchers — led by physicist Francesco Bonaccorso, who is based at the
Graphene Labs
of the Italian Institute
of Technology in Genova, and is a Royal Society Newton Fellow at the Cambridge
Graphene Centre — note the substantial progress made in material preparation at the laboratory level.
The
technology patented by the UJI combines
graphene and organometallic compounds in a single material without altering the most interesting properties
of graphene, such as its electrical conductivity.
This type
of technology will be needed for full - scale industrial manufacture
of graphene - based components and devices in a way that is compatible with current industry techniques.
Andrea Ferrari, director
of the Cambridge
Graphene Centre, Science and Technology Officer of the Graphene Flagship, and Chair of the Flagship's management panel, added «The interaction between graphene and related materials and bio-materials is key to broaden their possible appli
Graphene Centre, Science and
Technology Officer
of the
Graphene Flagship, and Chair of the Flagship's management panel, added «The interaction between graphene and related materials and bio-materials is key to broaden their possible appli
Graphene Flagship, and Chair
of the Flagship's management panel, added «The interaction between
graphene and related materials and bio-materials is key to broaden their possible appli
graphene and related materials and bio-materials is key to broaden their possible applications.
«Carbon nanotube integrated electronics was hyped from the start,» says nanotube - cum -
graphene researcher Walter de Heer
of the Georgia Institute
of Technology.
In light
of this, manufacturers from around the world plan to issue their final industry forecast based on Moore's law after a meeting next week, and will then switch to a new forecasting system that includes alternative
technologies such as
graphene chips and quantum computing.
«Unlike standard methods for manipulating the properties
of graphene oxide, our process can be implemented under ambient conditions and is environmentally - benign, making it a promising step towards the practical integration
of graphene oxide into future
technologies.»
Can
graphene lead to completely new
technologies, something we can only dream
of right now?
Admittedly, some
of these
technologies would stretch the imagination
of the most creative
of apocalyptic screenwriters — it'll be a while, I suspect, before «
Graphene Apocalypse» or «Day
of the Perovskite Cell» hit the silver screen.
1SZU - NUS Collaborative Innovation Center for Optoelectronic Science &
Technology, Key Laboratory
of Optoelectronic Devices and Systems
of Ministry
of Education and Guangdong Province, College
of Optoelectronic Engineering, Shenzhen University, 2Department
of Physics, National University
of Singapore, 3NUS Graduate School for Integrative Sciences and Engineering, Centre for Life Sciences, 4Centre for Advanced 2D Materials and
Graphene Research Centre, National University
of Singapore
By building a deep understanding
of the chemistry
of single - layer
graphene and a few layer
graphene, I am confident that many new applications
of chemically functionalized
graphenes could be possible, in electronics, photonics, optoelectronics, sensors, composites, and other areas,» notes Rodney Ruoff, corresponding author
of this paper, CMCM director, and UNIST Distinguished Professor at the Ulsan National Institute
of Science and
Technology (UNIST).
The WMG research team have already begun further work on this technological advance which will include further study and research as part
of the
graphene spearhead two year project led by Varta Micro-innovations, WMG at the University
of Warwick is a partner along with Cambridge University, CIC, Lithops and IIT (Italian Institute
of Technology).
For example, whereas Markram and a few others controlled the HBP's structure and funding, the
graphene project is an open network only loosely coordinated by its leaders at Sweden's Chalmers University
of Technology.
Scientists at Harvard and Raytheon BBN
Technology have made a breakthrough in our understanding
of graphene's basic properties, observing for the first time electrons in a metal behaving like a fluid (Credit: Peter Allen / Harvard SEAS)
A new application
of graphene could mean big things for battery
technology (Credit: < a href ="https://www.flickr.com/photos/uclmaps/11925595493/" rel="nofollow"> AlexanderAIUS/C.C.
Graphene, the new wunderkind for all sorts
of emerging
technologies, is still a little too expensive to produce on a commercial scale.
A new application
of graphene could mean big things for battery
technology (Credit: AlexanderAIUS/C.C.
Thus, a laser - based
technology for reduction
of graphene oxide, conversion
of the solution based metal oxide precursor and patterning
of graphene electrodes and metal oxide semiconductor was developed.
NanoMalaysia's primary role in the development
of Malaysia's National
Graphene Action Plan 2020 together with Agensi Inovasi Malaysia and PEMANDU [Performance Management & Delivery Unit attached to Prime Minister's Office] is a major landmark in our journey to ensure Malaysia stays competitive in the global innovation landscape particularly in nanotechnology, which cuts across all industries including ICT [information and communications
technologies].
This, coupled with research on
graphene and multi-spectral detection, earned them the Federal Laboratory Consortium Far West Regional Award in the category
of Outstanding
Technology Development.
In a collaboration led by CNIT — a consortium
of Italian universities and national laboratories focused on communication
technologies — researchers from AMO GmbH, Ericsson, Nokia Bell Labs, and Imec have developed
graphene - based photodetectors and modulators capable
of receiving and transmitting optical data faster than ever before.