Sentences with phrase «single sheet of graphene»

«We've developed the first membrane that consists of a high density of subnanometer - scale pores in an atomically thin, single sheet of graphene,» O'Hern says.

A single sheet of graphene is only one atom thick and consists of a 2D lattice of tightly bonded carbon atoms.

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

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

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.

The engineers worked out carefully controlled procedures to place single sheets of graphene onto an expensive wafer.

Not exact matches

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...

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.

These measurements revealed that the thinnest structures undergo more significant size changes than thicker sheets: A single layer of graphene, which contracts when heated, shrinks more than materials composed of a few graphene layers.

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.

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.

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

Single graphene sheets are chemically reactive, but stacked layers of graphene — otherwise known as graphite, or pencil «lead» — are inert.

Graphene — a single sheet of carbon atoms — is known to be a very good electrical conductor.

Sheets of graphene, one to a few atoms thick, and aligned, single - walled carbon nanotubes self - assemble into an interconnected prorous network that run the length of the fiber.

Spreading single ruthenium atoms across a sheet of graphene, the atom - thick form of carbon, turned out to be fairly straightforward, Tour said.

SUPER SHEET Simple blender blades can slough off graphene, single - atom - thick layers of carbon, from graphite.

In addition to the unique energetic properties of single atoms, the CO2 conversation reaction was facilitated by the interaction of the nickel atoms with a surrounding sheet of graphene.

Graphene sheets, which are made of a single layer of carbon atoms, are both super-strong and highly flexible.

Two examples: graphene — single - atom - thick sheets of carbon atoms — has unique mechanical, electrical, and optical properties; and two - dimensional electron gases (2DEG)-- planar collections of electrons supported at the interface between certain semiconductors such as gallium arsenide — allow the observation of such emergent behaviors as the quantum Hall effect and the spin Hall effect.

Scientists formed these crystals — which occur at room temperature — by squeezing tiny amounts of water between two sheets of graphene, planes of carbon a single atom thick.

«To be able to spontaneously change the structure of graphene from single sheets to a spherical assembly is hugely significant.

Graphene, a single - atom - thick sheet of carbon, is stronger than steel and as stiff as diamond.

Soon to arrive is a key ingredient: 1 / 100th of a microgram of tritium loaded onto a postage stamp - sized sheet of graphene, a layer of carbon just a single atom thick.

The researchers, led by Nicola Maria Pugno, who is head of the Laboratory of Bio-inspired and Graphene Nanomechanics at the University of Trento, achieved their results by simply spraying Pholcidae spiders with water containing different types of single - walled carbon nanotubes (which are rolled up sheets of graphite) or graphene (which is a sheet of carbon just one atomGraphene Nanomechanics at the University of Trento, achieved their results by simply spraying Pholcidae spiders with water containing different types of single - walled carbon nanotubes (which are rolled up sheets of graphite) or graphene (which is a sheet of carbon just one atomgraphene (which is a sheet of carbon just one atom thick).

Graphene is a sheet of carbon that is only a single atom thick.

(Graphene is a single - atom - thick sheet of carbon with a host of unusual properties.)

What makes the display «unbreakable» is not the Graphene (which is a single - atom thick sheet of carbon atoms) it is the fact that you replace the currently used glas substrate with one made from plastic.

Meany: Graphene is a sheet of carbon atoms that all lie in a single plane next to one another.