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Buckyball Marries Graphene

Scientists combined buckyballs, which resemble tiny soccer balls made from 60 carbon atoms, with graphene, a single layer of carbon, on an underlying surface. Positive and negative charges can transfer between the balls and graphene depending on the nature of the surface as well as the structural order and local orientation of the carbon ball. Scientists can use this architecture to develop tunable junctions for lightweight electronic devices.

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Graphene can be tuned to behave as both an insulator and a superconductor

Researchers at MIT and Harvard University have found that graphene can be tuned to behave at two electrical extremes: as an insulator, in which electrons are completely blocked from flowing; and as a superconductor, in which electrical current can stream through without resistance.

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Korean team develops a graphene-based optical modulator that mimics the human brain

The Korean state-run Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI) announced the development of a graphene-based optical modulator device capable of performing arithmetic and remembering it at the same time. According to ETRI, the device works much like a human brain.

The institute said its researchers have artificially recreated neural synapses in the device. It added the latest achievement will lay the foundation for the development of chips that will have a similar structure to the human brain and may also lead to the development of neuro-computers.

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Surprise graphene discovery could unlock secrets of superconductivity

A sandwich of two graphene layers can conduct electrons without resistance if they are twisted at a ‘magic angle’’, physicists have discovered. The finding could prove to be a significant step in the decades-long search for room-temperature superconductors.
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Graphene sheets and nickel turn CO2 into usable energy

Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory are part of a scientific collaboration that has identified a new electrocatalyst that efficiently converts CO2 to carbon monoxide (CO), a highly energetic molecule.
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Graphene inks enable low-cost printed cell-sensors

Fraunhofer scientists have developed biosensors with graphene electrodes, produced cheaply and simply by roll-to-roll printing. A system prototype for mass production has already been established. This may change the current situation in which cell-based biosensors can be quite expensive to make, which often prevents them from being used. Cost factors for sensors that perform measurements electrically are the expensive electrode material and complex production.
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Discarded lithium ion batteries transformed into rGO-based supercapacitors

Scientists from CSIR–Central Electrochemical Research Institute (CSIR-CECRI) and CSIR–Central Salt and Marine Chemicals Research Institute (CSIR-CSMCRI) in India have collected discarded lithium-ion batteries and created reduced graphene oxide from them. The material reportedly showed high specific capacity at low current, making it an ideal material for next generation high-performance supercapacitors.
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Graphene enables an aqueous hybrid capacitor that recharges in under 30 seconds

Researchers at the Korean Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) have developed a graphene-based aqueous hybrid capacitor that is stable, safe and boasts high energy and power densities, in addition to recharging in under 30 seconds.
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Graphene – a raw material for our digital future

The Mobile World Congress in Barcelona is a major annual event for the international mobile telecoms community…
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Foldable phones by 2023 says EU’s Graphene Flagship

Foldable phones will be on the market within five years, according to the Graphene Flagship programme. As Ivor Bennett reports, the miracle material will revolutionise not only mobiles but medicine too.

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