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Transportation

Graphene Composites for Cars

Graphene is a one-atom-thick sheet of carbon that is a hundred times stronger than steel. (University of Manchester.) Soon after University of Manchester ...

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Articles
Test & Measurement

Physicists Measure a Key Aspect of Superconductivity in ‘Magic-Angle’ Graphene

... graphene — materials that are made from two or more atomically thin sheets of graphene twisted with respect to each other at just the right angle to enable ...

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Briefs
Materials

Low Power Optical Phase Array Using Graphene on Silicon Photonics

Graphene is a versatile 2D material with wavelength-insensitive electrical tunability of its optical absorption and refractive index (Figure 1). As seen in ...

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News
Aerospace

The Next Material Disruption

The development of graphene dates back to 2004, when two University of Manchester scientists realized they had isolated a single layer of carbon atoms on a ...

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Defense

Graphene Advances May Lead to Improved Data Transmission, Storage

Films of nickel (blue) and iron (red) contain a mixture of electrons with up and down spins. A few layers of graphene (grey) lie between the metal layers to ...

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Semiconductors & ICs

Disappearing Carbon Circuits on Graphene Could Have Security Uses

Graphene is also made up of carbon atoms, but in a highly-ordered form. This AFM phase image of the graphene conduction channel after FEBID carbon doping shows ...

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Aerospace

Launching Graphene to the Stratosphere

A single layer of graphene was coated on a substrate, and the experiment was placed in the payload enclosure of a CubeSat. (Photo: Boreal Space) Researchers ...

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News
Materials

Goodfellow Corporation Offers Graphene Variant Produced Through a New “Metal-Free” Methane Process

The carbon atoms recombine into graphene sheets in the hydrogen atmosphere. Learn more about graphene. The resulting graphene nanoplatelets are very thin ...

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Aerospace

High Temperature Graphene-Peek Adhesive

Compounding graphene into polymers has the potential to improve various material properties, even at very low concentrations.

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News
Defense

Researchers Reduce Graphene-Enhanced Composite Development Time Using Neural Networks

dba GrapheneCA (“GrapheneCA”) has cut the time and cost of developing graphene-enhanced advanced composites by using neural networks to extrapolate material ...

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Materials

Modeling and Experimenting with 2D Materials for CMOS Type Devices and Digital Integrated Circuits

Graphene is a two-dimensional carbon material made of carbon by covalent bonds, where carbon atoms are arranged in a honeycomb lattice. Graphene has promising ...

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Defense

Scientists Print Radio Frequency Antenna with Graphene Ink

Scientists have taken a significant step in moving graphene – the incredibly strong and conductive single-atom-thick sheet of carbon – from lab bench ...

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Technology Report
Materials

3D Graphene Boosts New Batteries Beyond Lithium-Ion

Lyten's trademarked 3D Graphene is a first-generation battery technology that Cook describes as “a leap-frog technology” to today's Li-ion chemistry. The firm ...

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Manufacturing & Prototyping

Fabricating Transparent and Stretchable Supercapacitors Based on Wrinkled Graphene Electrodes

... graphene sheet prepared under the same condition. The wrinkled graphene sheets showed transparency slightly lower than that of the planar graphene sheets ...

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Defense

Researchers Use Graphene to Make Wireless Communications More Flexible

Their project —“CMOS Compatible Graphene Nanoelectromechanical Systems for Next Generation RF Design”— focuses on addressing the increasing congestion of the ...

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Aerospace

Graphene Composite Could Keep Wings Ice-Free

Rice University scientists embedded graphene nanoribbon-infused epoxy in a section of helicopter blade to test its ability to remove ice through Joule ...

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Electronics & Computers

Radiation Effects on Electronics in Aligned Carbon Nanotube Technology (RadCNT)

... graphene) field-effect transistors (FETs) devices and integrated circuits (ICs). February 1, 2021. Defense Threat Reduction Agency, Fort Belvoir, Virginia.

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Defense

Discovery Could Lead to Munitions That Go Further, Much Faster

... graphene oxide. This discovery coincides with the one of the Army's modernization priorities: Long Range Precision Fires. This research could lead to ...

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Materials

New Form of Carbon Is Hard as a Rock, But Elastic Like Rubber

A visualization of the different types of diamond-like linkages (red spheres) formed at curved surfaces or between the layers of graphene (black spheres) in ...

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Aerospace

Dual-Function Aircraft De-Icer Also Prevents Freezing

The graphene-based de-icer resists the formation of ice well below the freezing point, and has superhydrophobic capabilities. (Illustration courtesy of the ...

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Propulsion

‘First of Its Kind’ Composite Material to Help Space Vessels Travel Longer Distances

The material in question has been used since 1993 to store liquid hydrogen and yet in this work we innovatively reinforced this material with nano graphene, ...

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Sensors/Data Acquisition

NASA to Advance Unique 3D Printed Sensor Technology

Ultimately, each is capable of detecting a different gas, pressure level or temperature. Nanomaterials, such as carbon nanotubes, graphene, molybdenum disulfide ...

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Manufacturing & Prototyping

Developing Multifunctional Composite Materials for Aerospace Applications

It can be made into highly conductive and strong thin films in layers of only a few atoms, similar to graphene. “This new two-dimensional material has very ...

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Products
Electronics & Computers

New Products

The carbon atoms then recombine into graphene sheets in the hydrogen atmosphere. Elapsed time from the methane gas entering the plasma reactor to the point when ...

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Electronics & Computers

Tailoring the Optoelectronic Properties of Transition Metal Dichalcogenides for Sensing and Electronics

A team of Air Force Research Laboratory, or AFRL, researchers partnered with Pennsylvania State University to publish an article in the...

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Electronics & Computers

Scientists Demonstrate Electrical Properties of Topological Insulators

Similar data are obtained for two different ferromagnetic tunnel barrier structures, Fe/Al2O3 and Co/MgO/graphene, demonstrating that these behaviors are ...

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Briefs
Aerospace

Weyl Semimetals (WSM) for Electronics Applications

Figure 2. The band diagram of graphene in the tight-binding approximation demonstrating the emergence of the Dirac points. The inset shows a vicinity of one of ...

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Materials

University of Rochester Lab Creates New 'Reddmatter' Superconductivity Material

In a historic achievement, University of Rochester researchers have created a superconducting material at both a temperature and pressure low enough for...

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