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Building a Printing Press for New Quantum Materials

“Scientists at Brookhaven Lab’s Center for Functional Nanomaterials are developing an automated system to synthesize entirely new materials made from stacked atomically thin two-dimensional sheets and to characterize their exotic quantum properties Checking out a stack of books from …

Graphene gives a tremendous boost to future terahertz cameras

“A study in Nano Letters reports on the development of a graphene-enabled detector for terahertz light that is faster and more sensitive than existing room-temperature technologies. Detecting terahertz (THz) light is extremely useful for two main reasons. Firstly, THz technology …

2D wonder materials

“VCU physics professor Loren Picco, Ph.D., is among a team of researchers that is the first to produce quantities of potentially revolutionary ribbons of phosphorene. Since the isolation of 2-dimensional phosphorene — the phosphorus equivalent of graphene — in 2014, more …

Graphene coating could help prevent lithium battery fires

“Lithium batteries are what allow electric vehicles to travel several hundred miles on one charge. Their capacity for energy storage is well known, but so is their tendency to occasionally catch on fire – an occurrence known to battery researchers as …

New hybrid energy method could fuel the future of rockets, spacecraft for exploration

“Nontraditional route shown to increase performance, burn rate Graphene, a new material with applications in biomedical technology, electronics, composites, energy and sensors, may soon help send rockets to space. A new propellant formulation method to use graphene foams – material used …

New tunable nanomaterials possible via flexible process invented by University of Bath physicists

“Physicists have developed a flexible way to synthesise a wide range of novel nanomaterials with potential applications in areas including optics and sensors. Physicists at the University of Bath have developed a flexible process allowing the synthesis in a single …

Controlling pressure-driven ionic flow by voltage at molecular scale

“Similar to our computers which handle electrons to perform the calculations and logics, all the circuitry in living beings is based on the transport of ions, such as sodium, chloride, calcium, etc. Nature exploits incredibly subtle transport of these elementary …

The Future of Stretchable Electronics

“Stretchable devices could have a wide range of potential uses, from wearable health monitors to elastic solar cells to artificial skin Tsukuba, Japan, Mar 24, 2019 - (ACN Newswire) - Stretchable electronics is emerging as a promising new technology for next-generation wearable …

Graphene reveals electrons move like viscous liquids

“Researchers at The University of Manchester in the UK have discovered that electrons in graphene act like a very unique liquid. The movement of electron fluid in graphene has, for the first time, been observed to exist with two separate …

New graphene-based device is first step toward ultrasensitive biosensors

“Researchers in the University of Minnesota College of Science and Engineering have developed a unique new device using the wonder material graphene that provides the first step toward ultrasensitive biosensors to detect diseases at the molecular level with near perfect …