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Producing graphene layers using crystallization

(PhysOrg.com) -- Ever since it's relatively recent discovery, graphene has generated a great deal of interest. Graphene is extracted from graphite in many cases, and consists of a sheet of carbon atoms bound together in a ...

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Mar 02, 2010 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (12) | comments 1 | with audio podcast feature

Straintronics: Engineers create piezoelectric graphene

In what became known as the 'Scotch tape technique," researchers first extracted graphene with a piece of adhesive in 2004. Graphene is a single layer of carbon atoms arranged in a honeycomb, hexagonal pattern. ...

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Mar 16, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (7) | comments 8 | with audio podcast

Bilayer graphene works as an insulator

A research team led by physicists at the University of California, Riverside has identified a property of "bilayer graphene" (BLG) that the researchers say is analogous to finding the Higgs boson in particle ...

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Jan 24, 2012 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (10) | comments 7 | with audio podcast

Scientists find simple way to produce graphene

(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists at Northern Illinois University say they have discovered a simple method for producing high yields of graphene, a highly touted carbon nanostructure that some believe could replace ...

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Jun 20, 2011 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (21) | comments 14 | with audio podcast

How graphene's electrical properties can be tuned

An accidental discovery in a physicist's laboratory at the University of California, Riverside provides a unique route for tuning the electrical properties of graphene, nature's thinnest elastic material. ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Sep 26, 2011 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (9) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

Graphene ink created for ink-jet printing of electronic components

(PhysOrg.com) -- A group of UK scientists has created a graphene ink that can be used to ink-jet print electronic devices such as thin film transistors.

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Nov 25, 2011 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (15) | comments 6 | with audio podcast report

Impact hypothesis loses its sparkle

Shock-synthesized diamonds said to prove a catastrophic impact killed off North American megafauna can't be found.

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Aug 30, 2010 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (14) | comments 22 | with audio podcast

Caltech Scientists Test Air Flow Over the 2010 World Cup Soccer Ball (w/ Video)

(PhysOrg.com) -- The World Cup is in full swing, complete with an official new soccer ball named Jabulani, meaning "to celebrate" in Zulu. The players, however, aren't exactly celebrating. Instead, many of ...

Physics / General Physics

created Jun 25, 2010 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (17) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Shear stiffness and friction mechanics of single-layer graphene measured for the first time

Researchers from the University of Bristol have measured and identified for the first time the stress and strain shear modulus and internal friction of graphene sheets. Graphene is a material that has many ...

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Feb 14, 2012 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

California's Channel Islands hold evidence of Clovis-age comets

A 17-member team has found what may be the smoking gun of a much-debated proposal that a cosmic impact about 12,900 years ago ripped through North America and drove multiple species into extinction.

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Jul 20, 2009 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (14) | comments 5

Miracle material: Graphene

(PhysOrg.com) -- In the 19th century novel, Flatland, by Edward A. Abbott, residents of that fictional country exist in only two dimensions. Women are born as line segments, while men come in a range of geometric ...

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created May 19, 2011 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (9) | comments 12 | with audio podcast

Creating Denser Magnetic Memory

(PhysOrg.com) -- One of the issues afflicting magnetic memory is the fact that it is difficult to store information for as long as 10 years. In order to overcome this problem, scientists and engineers have been looking for ...

Physics / General Physics

created Jul 07, 2009 | popularity 3.9 / 5 (7) | comments 3 weblog

Scientists create large-area graphene on copper: Faster computers, electronics possible

The creation of large-area graphene using copper may enable the manufacture of new graphene-based devices that meet the scaling requirements of the semiconductor industry, leading to faster computers and electronics, ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created May 07, 2009 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (14) | comments 1

Researchers Find Better Way To Manufacture Fast Computer Chips

(PhysOrg.com) -- Engineers at Ohio State University are developing a technique for mass producing computer chips made from the same material found in pencils.

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Mar 31, 2009 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (14) | comments 1

Pinpointing catalytic reactions on carbon nanotubes

(PhysOrg.com) -- Among their many other interesting properties, carbon nanotubes have been found to act as catalysts for some important chemical reactions, including some that could be used to make cleaner ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Apr 17, 2009 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (3) | comments 2

Hexagon

In geometry, a hexagon (from Greek ἕξ hex, 'six') is a polygon with six edges and six vertices. A regular hexagon has Schläfli symbol {6}. The total of the internal angles of any hexagon is 720 degrees.

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