Exceptional Results Delivered by the Graphene Flagship

The Graphene Flagship has achieved most of its objectives and milestones and delivered exceptional results with significant immediate or potential impact. This is the conclusion of the European Commission in its interim review report of the project’s first year following the two-and-half-year ramp-up phase. Having reported over 600 scientific publications, 37 patent applications, 17 products on the market and six spin-off companies during this 12-month period, the Graphene Flagship is further commended for focusing its work towards a more industrially oriented initiative with a higher Technology Readiness Level.

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A New Graphene Sensor for Measuring High Vacuum Pressures

Many types of sensor now use graphene as the response material and has become a hot area of graphene research. Despite not being the most obvious use of graphene to outsiders, it is an area in which a lot of research is being undertaken and commercialized.

A new addition to the graphene sensor family has now made its presence known in the academic world because a team of Researchers from South Korea have created a graphene nanoribbon sensor which can measure high vacuum pressures.

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Researchers observe exotic quantum particle in bilayer graphene

A team led by Cory Dean, assistant professor of physics at Columbia University, and James Hone, Wang Fong-Jen Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Columbia Engineering, has definitively observed an intensely studied anomaly in condensed matter physics—the even-denominator fractional quantum Hall (FQH) state—via transport measurement in bilayer graphene. The study is published online today in Science.

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Record stability for perovskite solar cells

EPFL scientists have greatly improved the operational stability of perovskite solar cells by introducing cuprous thiocyanate protected by a thin layer of reduced graphene oxide. Devices lost less than 5% performance when subjected to a crucial accelerated aging test during which they were exposed for more than 1000 hours to full sunlight at 60°C.

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Swinburne to host the world’s first graphene certification centre

Swinburne will create the world’s first graphene certification centre as part of its revolutionary research into graphene and digital manufacturing processes.

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CealTech names Tor Morten Osmundsen as Chairman and Interim Chief Executive officer

Stavanger, Norway – CealTech AS has appointed Tor Morten Osmundsen as Chairman of the Board of Directors and Interim Chief Executive Officer, effective from August the 1st, 2017.

 

Mr. Osmundsen has 35 years of international business experience at top management level within the Oil & Gas, Medical and Industry Automation sectors.  He holds several Company Board positions.

 

“CealTech is an exceptional company with a great future”, said Mr. Osmundsen. “It is an honor to accept the Board’s appointment. We will be working during the coming months to revitalize the business, develop partnerships and to identify the right leadership for CealTech as it enters its next phase of value creation.”

 

The Board welcomes Mr. Osmundsen in his new roles. His leadership will be invaluable to the Board and senior management team to realize CealTech’s plan to launch its commercial graphene production, while contributing to the global graphene commercialization journey, and supporting its Clients’ business goals by helping them gain a competitive edge in their respective markets.

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Laser beam hammers graphene into 3D shapes

Graphene, a sheet of carbon just one atom thick, can be forged into 3D shapes using a pulsed laser beam, according to new experiments by researchers in Finland and Taiwan. The technique, dubbed optical forging, works thanks to the laser light expanding local areas in graphene, and it could be used to fabricate 3D architectures for new types of graphene-based devices in the future.

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