Imagine a carbon sheet that's only one atom thick but is stronger than diamond and conducts electricity 100 times faster than the silicon in computer chips. That's graphene, the latest wonder material coming out of science ...
Nanomaterials
Jul 13, 2009
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Imagine an electronic newspaper that you could roll up and spill your coffee on, even as it updated itself before your eyes.
Nanomaterials
Aug 16, 2016
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Humans have been studying electric charge for thousands of years, and the results have shaped modern civilization. Our daily lives depend on electric lighting, smartphones, cars, and computers, in ways that the first individuals ...
Nanophysics
Feb 27, 2020
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Batteries die at the most inconvenient times. Cellphones go dark during important conversations because a battery hasn't been recharged. Or the automotive industry revs up with excitement for a new battery-powered vehicle, ...
Nanomaterials
Mar 26, 2018
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers at The University of Manchester have produced a ground-breaking new material, graphane, which has been derived from graphene.
Nanomaterials
Jan 30, 2009
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Eyeglasses need never again to be cleaned, and dirty windscreens are a thing of the past! Researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research in Mainz and the Technical University Darmstadt are now much closer to ...
Nanomaterials
Dec 7, 2011
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Neuroscientists and materials scientists have created contact lenses that enable infrared vision in both humans and mice by converting infrared light into visible light. Unlike infrared night vision goggles, the contact lenses, ...
Bio & Medicine
May 22, 2025
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The past 70 years have seen the way we live and work transformed by two tiny inventions. The electronic transistor and the microchip are what make all modern electronics possible, and since their development in the 1940s ...
Nanomaterials
Mar 22, 2016
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For over a decade, scientists have attempted to synthesize a new form of carbon called graphyne with limited success. That endeavor is now at an end, though, thanks to new research from the University of Colorado Boulder.
Nanomaterials
May 21, 2022
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Scientists have developed a graphene based microphone nearly 32 times more sensitive than microphones of standard nickel-based construction.
Nanomaterials
Nov 26, 2015
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