Graphene News - 2018

The material graphene has many incredible properties, but to date it has been difficult to use on a large scale in industry, because it loses its unique properties and goes back to its origin graphite.

A tiny layer of graphene flakes could become a deadly weapon against bacteria according to scientists from Sweden. The team from Chalmers University of Technology has now shown that a layer of vertical graphene flakes forms a protective surface that can make it impossible for bacteria to attach – not only that, it can slice ...

Scientists have developed high-strength, super-tough sheets of carbon that can be inexpensively fabricated at low temperatures. The team made the sheets by chemically stitching together platelets of graphitic carbon, which is in certain ways similar to the graphite found in the soft 'lead' of an ordinary pencil.

Graphene has been used by scientists to squeeze light to just one atom. The breakthrough will help further development of ultra-small devices.

MIT engineers have developed a scalable manufacturing process that spools out strips of graphene for use in ultrathin membranes.

In a recent study, researchers describe how the composite material, fortified by graphene, is at least two times as strong and four times more water-resistant than conventional concrete and could make future construction more sustainable and environmentally friendly.

By twisting a sandwich of graphene at a particular angle, it develops a powerful and peculiar superconductor ability unlike any other material.

In yet another graphene breakthrough, researchers have created an atomic-scale petri dish to help solve a glut of nanomaterial mysteries.