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.

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.

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

James Baker, Business Director for Graphene at The University of Manchester, talks to AZoNano about the current state of the graphene market and the key next steps needed.

Chemical vapor deposition (CVD) is the most common way of producing graphene and is performed in many ways throughout the world. Growing graphene directly into electronic devices is a highly desirable process, but has been difficult to perform due to high process temperatures (of around 1000 °C) damaging the substrate components.