Entries by John Are Beukes

Graphene takes centre stage at Mobile World Congress

Mobile World Congress is the world’s biggest exhibition focused on high-tech and mobile applications. With over 107 000 attendees from across the technology ecosystem and including a significant proportion of senior-level industry representatives, the 2018 Mobile World Congress was the ideal place for the Graphene Flagship to demonstrate progress in graphene.

Scientists develop graphene-based gas detector

A team of Chinese scientists from South China Normal University and Beihang University has used graphene to create an artificial gas detector that is as good as a dog’s nose. Their work showed that the graphene-based nanoscrolls can mimic a dog’s sensitive sniffer, which is lined with millions of tiny capillaries. Since the capillaries cover […]

Superconductivity – pairing up with nanotechnology

Almost a century after Heike Kamerlingh Onnes first discovered superconductivity, the factors that determine whether a system will be superconducting and at what temperature remain hard to pin down. However, advances in nanotechnology have given some good pointers where to look, as well as providing promising systems for exploiting superconductivity in real-world applications.