Researchers at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, the US Department of Energy’s National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL), Argonne National Laboratory and Monash University have used graphene-like carbon dots made from coal to solve a long-standing… Read More »Coal-derived carbon dots help grow ultrathin insulating layers on graphene and MoS2 chips
Dana Gas and Levidian have started graphene production in Sharjah, after commissioning the first LOOP 20 unit at the Sharjah Graphene Park. The unit is reportedly running at full capacity, with an annual output above… Read More »Dana Gas and Levidian start graphene production from methane in Sharjah
Graphene Manufacturing Group (GMG) has reported new cycling data for its fast-charging graphene aluminium-ion cells, which it is developing with Rio Tinto under a joint development agreement. The 1.5 Ah cells were built and tested… Read More »GMG’s fast-charging graphene battery holds up through 1,000 cycles in new tests
Researchers at the University of Manchester, the Institute of Microelectronics of Barcelona (IMB-CNM, CSIC), the Catalan Institute of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology (ICN2) and Multi Channel Systems (Germany) have used graphene micro-transistor arrays to map how… Read More »Graphene sensors read stroke damage from the shape of brain electrical waves
The European MINIGRAPH project, funded by the European Innovation Council and coordinated by ICN2, has wrapped up with results on graphene neural probes and a robotic way to implant them. The consortium also included INBRAIN… Read More »INBRAIN and partners pair graphene brain probes with a magnetically guided implantation robot
First Graphene has received an initial purchase order from US-based Flux Footwear, its first production application in athletic footwear. Flux will use the company’s PureGRAPH graphene additive in its Graphene XT performance gym shoes and… Read More »First Graphene’s PureGRAPH enters sports shoes with first Flux Footwear order
UK-based Duo Packaging has developed a graphene-enhanced polyethylene film for flexible packaging, created with the University of Manchester’s Graphene Engineering Innovation Center (GEIC) and backed by the Innovation Navigator Programme. The material, branded 2DPE, uses… Read More »Duo Packaging’s graphene film boosts recycled plastic content by a third
First Graphene has entered a three-year Development and Commercialization Agreement with Turkish prepreg manufacturer Aeropreg to bring a PureGRAPH®-enhanced carbon fiber prepreg to market. The agreement pairs First Graphene’s proprietary epoxy concentrates, developed to optimize… Read More »First Graphene partners with Aeropreg to commercialize graphene-enhanced carbon fiber prepreg
Japanese appliance maker Siroca will launch a graphene-coated personal space heater, the “Sumipoka” (model SH-GC251), on October 16, priced at ¥13,860 (about US$88). The compact heater uses a graphene coating on its heating element to… Read More »Siroca’s graphene-coated personal heater warms up in three seconds
Researchers at the University of Osaka, working with collaborators across institutions in Japan, Taiwan, the UK, and France, have used an ultrathin, large-area suspended graphene target to accelerate protons to 132 MeV, nearly half the… Read More »Record-setting proton acceleration achieved using ultrathin graphene laser targets