Kim and colleagues first isolated a sample of
pure graphene by protecting it between layers of hexagonal boron nitride, an insulating, transparent crystal also known as «white graphene» for its similar properties and atomic structure.
This surprisingly simple recipe is now the easiest way to mass - produce
pure graphene — sheets of carbon just one atom thick.
As conductors, these bilayered hybrids are almost as fast as
pure graphene, plus they are well - suited for making devices.
«You place graph ite in a bucket, dump in organic liquids that dissolve it,» Hamilton says, «then you remove the solvent and out comes this gray stuff that's
pure graphene.»
«Some of Pradeep's prior work identified that
pure graphene with triangular holes can effectively become piezoelectric,» Zelisko said.
Not exact matches
Other scientists construct flexible electronics from innately bendy materials such as
graphene, a lattice of
pure carbon only one atom thick.
This produces a
purer form, but the technique needs to be refined before
graphene wafers can be churned out in commercial quantities.
They used low - frequency musical signals (both
pure tones and songs from an iPhone) to modulate the 100 MHz carrier signal from the
graphene, and then retrieved the musical signals again using an ordinary FM radio receiver.
The
graphene - anchored MoSoy catalyst surpassed the performance of
pure platinum metal.
Graphene, one of the most intensely studied nanomaterials of the decade, is a two - dimensional sheet of
pure carbon that is both ultrastrong and conductive.
And
graphene, made of
pure and abundant carbon, could be a much cheaper detector material than presently used semiconductors that often include rare, expensive elements.
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.