Search results for graphene:
Researchers invent new method for graphene growth
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Nov 10, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A Cornell research team has invented a simple way to make graphene electrical devices by growing the graphene directly onto a silicon wafer.
Capturing those in-between moments: Researchers solves timing problem in molecular modeling
Nov 04, 2009 |
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A theoretical physicist at the National Institute of Standards and Technology has developed a method for calculating the motions and forces of thousands of atoms simultaneously over a wider range of time scales ...
Physicist wins Packard Fellowship
Oct 16, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- MIT physicist Pablo Jarillo-Herrero has won a 2009 David and Lucile Packard Fellowship, an award he will use to study a new class of materials that could have applications in the semiconductor ...
Graphene: Unravelling the secrets of a magic material
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Oct 15, 2009 |
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UCL researchers are helping to unlock the secrets of a material that could ultimately be used in a new generation of electronic devices.
Physicists discover novel electronic properties in two-dimensional carbon structure
Oct 14, 2009 |
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Rutgers researchers have discovered novel electronic properties in two-dimensional sheets of carbon atoms called graphene that could one day be the heart of speedy and powerful electronic devices.
How Perfect Can Graphene Be?
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Oct 13, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Physicists have investigated the purest graphene to date, and have found that the material possesses unprecedented high electronic quality. The discovery has raised the bar for this relatively ...
Graphene Used As Floating-Molecular Carpet To Ornament It With 24-Carat Gold 'Snowflakes'
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Oct 12, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- In an effort to make graphene more useful in electronics applications, Kansas State University engineers made a golden discovery -- gold "snowflakes" on graphene.
Growing geodesic carbon nanodomes
Oct 12, 2009 |
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Researchers analyzing the assembly of graphene (sheets of carbon only one atom thick) on a surface of iridium have found that the sheets grow by first forming tiny carbon domes. The discovery offers new insight ...
Graphite mimics iron's magnetism
Oct 04, 2009 |
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Researchers of Eindhoven University of Technology and the Radboud University Nijmegen in The Netherlands show for the first time why ordinary graphite is a permanent magnet at room temperature. The results ...
Stretching opens up possibilities for graphene
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Sep 28, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers say they have found a simple way to improve the semiconducting properties of the world’s thinnest material - by giving it a good tug.
New research may lead to revolutionary new devices
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Sep 25, 2009 |
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Dr. Jiwoong Park of Cornell University, who receives funding for basic research from the Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR), is investigating carbon nanostructures that may some day be used in ...
A flash of light turns graphene into a biosensor
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Sep 23, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Biomedical researchers suspect graphene, a novel nanomaterial made of sheets of single carbon atoms, would be useful in a variety of applications. But no one had studied the interaction between ...
Graphene and gallium arsenide: Two perfect partners find each other
Sep 16, 2009 |
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It is the marriage of two top candidates for the electronics of the future, both excentric and extremely interesting: Graphene, one of the partners, is an extremely thin fellow and besides, very young.
New physics theory prize names first recipient
Sep 11, 2009 |
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Pioneering theorist and Nobel laureate Philip W. Anderson has been named the first recipient of the Richard E. Prange Prize and Lectureship in Condensed Matter Theory and Related Areas. Anderson will receive a $10,000 honorarium ...
Carbon nanotubes could make efficient solar cells
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Sep 10, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Cornell researchers fabricated, tested and measured a simple solar cell called a photodiode, formed from an individual carbon nanotube.
