Sentences with phrase «open graphene sheets»

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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.

«Interestingly we observed that when the graphene is decorated by maghemite, the graphene sheets spontaneously start to roll into perfect Archimedean nano scrolls, while when decorated by the less magnetic hematite nanoparticles the graphene remain as open sheets, says Thomas Wågberg, Senior lecturer at the Department of Physics at Umeå University.

Moreover, they showed that by removing the iron oxide nanoparticles by acid treatment the nanoscrolls again open up and go back to single graphene sheets

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.