#Microsoft's drones to catch mosquitoes and help stop epidemics WASHINGTON: Microsoft researchers are developing autonomous drones that collect mosquitoes to look for early signs that potentially harmful viruses are spreading,
#World thinnest bulb created from graphene Researchers have created the world's thinnest light bulb using graphene, an atomically thin and perfectly crystalline form of carbon,
and Korea Research Institute of Standards and Science said that they have demonstrated for the first time an on-chip visible light source using graphene as a filament.
They attached small strips of graphene to metal electrodes, suspended the strips above the substrate,
and graphene-based on-chip optical communications,"said Hone
#In a first, drug offers hope for children with dwarfism An experimental drug, vying to become the first approved treatment for dwarfism, improved growth in children by a significant amount in a preliminary study, the drug's developer,
low-cost graphene that could pave the way for the creation of the firondonst flexible`electronic skin,
Researchers from UK's University of Exeter through the new method can develop graphene now in simpler way.
"Currently, industrial graphene is produced using Chemical Vapour Deposition (CVD), which is pretty expensive and time consuming process,
The new technique grows graphene in an industrial cold wall CVD system, a state-of-the-art piece of equipment recently developed by UK graphene company Moorfield.
This new technique grows graphene 100 times faster than conventional methods, reduces costs by 99
%and has enhanced electronic quality, researchers said d
#UK plans world's first artificial blood transfusions by 2017 LONDON: The world's first human trial of artificial blood grown in a lab from stem cells is set to take place in the UK by 2017.
#A new ink formulation allows you to 3d print objects out of stretchy graphene A few months ago,
who have made a great breakthrough in the possibilities of 3d printing graphene structures. This material, as you might now,
Wee already learned that the team from Northwestern University have developed a solution-based 3d printable graphene ink that can be used to make objects multiple centimeters in length.
the team led by Ramille Shah has unveiled just a lot more about the potential and limitations of their graphene ink,
which amazingly consists of 60 percent graphene (in terms of volume), making up 75 percent of its weight.
To explain, graphene is essentially a form of carbon, just like diamonds or the lead in pencils.
graphene is a 2d material that consists of a hexagonal sheet only a single atom thick.
And while some graphene successes have been achieved previously, this specific ink contains more graphene than any previously developed 3d printable materials (the previous record was around the 20 percent).
This means that the electrical and mechanical properties of graphene can soon be taken into use.
What's more, the rest of the ink consists of a biocompatible biodegradable polyester (PLG) that,
thus really onto something. eople have tried to print graphene before. But it been a mostly polymer composite with graphene making up less than 20 percent of the volume
Shah explains on her university website. This means these materials don copy graphene properties and remain to brittle and fragile to use.
And while you might think that a 60-70 percent graphene content isn the real deal either,
this does in fact copy all the properties you need, while the remaining materials ensure flexibility and robustness. t a liquid ink,
entitled hree-dimensional printing of high-content graphene scaffolds for electronic and biomedical applications. 3d printed graphene appeared on the cover.
As a test, her team populated a graphene scaffold with stem cells, with the results being excellent.
The secret to this graphene ink is that the graphene is embedded into microscopic flakes. This makes the ink highly viscous,
but extrusion realigns all the flakes to create a single filament with all the characteristics of graphene.
the elasticity of the material can be tuned by changing the portions of graphene and polymers.
but that increases when the amount of graphene is decreased (though eventually this means losing some graphene properties).
throwing graphene into that mix really changes the playing field t
#Researchers create revolutionary optical fiber 3d printing technique for telecom and datacom industries As we continue to see more developments being made towards advancing additive manufacturing technologies,
#Graphene-Coated Catheters May Improve Delivery of Chemotherapy drugs The research suggests that placing graphene-an extremely thin sheet of carbon atoms-on the internal surfaces of intravenous catheters commonly used to deliver chemotherapy drugs into a patient's body will improve the efficacy of treatments,
"As a solution to this problem, the international team of researchers have proposed using graphene as an alternative coating material for catheters.
as well as the drug's reactions with silver and graphene. XPS is used a technique to measure the surface chemistry of a particular material by firing a beam of x-rays at it
When the researchers repeated this experiment with 5-Fu and graphene, they found that these reactions completely disappeared
and that graphene caused no damage to the drug. Graphene is a biocompatible material with low toxicity that has already been suggested as an external coating for biomedical applications.
The researchers state that the fabrication of thin graphene coatings is technological feasible and can even be grown on top of silver to maintain compliance with existing fabrication methods."
"Our findings are an important first step in this new field. Together with our collaborators and students, we are increasing our understanding of the critical interactions between drugs and medical coatings,
So a team of researchers in China set out to design a cheaper material with properties similar to a graphene aerogeln terms of its conductivity, as well as a lightweight
#Graphene Used for World's Thinnest Light bulb This clip shows the emission of light from graphene,
The graphene vibrates during light emission due to the flexural mode of graphene at high temperature. The team, led by Young Duck Kim, a postdoctoral researcher at Columbia Engineering,
attached small graphene strips to metal electrodes and suspended the strips over a substrate. When a current was passed through the filaments, they heated up."
and graphene-based on-chip optical communications,"said Hone, Wang Fon-Jen Professor of Mechanical engineering at Columbia Engineering and co-author of the study.
The team showed that the graphene reached temperatured over 2500#C by measuring the spectrum of emitted light.
This temperature was sufficient for the graphene to glow brightly.""The visible light from atomically thin graphene is so intense that it is visible even to the naked eye,
without any additional magnification,"explained Young Duck Kim, first and co-lead author on the paper.
The team identified that the peaks were due to interference between the light that was emitted directly from the graphene,
and was passed back to the graphene. Kim stated,"This is only possible because graphene is transparent, unlike any conventional filament,
and allows us to tune the emission spectrum by changing the distance to the substrate.""Graphene's ability to reach such high temperatures without melting the metal electrodes
or the substrate is due an interesting characteristic: graphene's conductivity decreases as it heats up.
This means that the high temperatures are restricted to a small'hot spot'in the center.""At the highest temperatures, the electron temperature is much higher than that of acoustic vibrational modes of the graphene lattice,
so that less energy is needed to attain temperatures needed for visible light emission. These unique thermal properties allow us to heat the suspended graphene up to half of temperature of the sun,
and improve efficiency 1000 times, as compared to graphene on a solid substrate, "explained Myung-Ho Bae,
a senior researcher at KRISS and co-lead author. By creating large-scale of arrays of chemical-vapor-deposited (CVD) graphene light emitters,
the team demonstrated that this new technique was scalable. Yun Daniel Park co-lead author and professor in the department of physics and astronomy at Seoul National University said,
but using it in its pure form-graphene -and at its ultimate size limit-one atom thick."
titled'Bright visible light emission from graphene',was published in the Advance Online Publication (AOP) on Nature Nanotechnology's website.
The system expands upon Bruker exclusive Peakforce Tapping technology to provide new information for graphene research
#New Technique Uses Ultrasound Waves for Bulk Synthesis of Graphene A team of researchers from the University of Tabriz have developed a method to manufacture graphene, a crystalline allotrope of carbon, in a simple and economical manner.
The project manager for the research, Dr. Hamed Asgharzadeh stated that they have discovered solutions to existing issues related to the synthesis of graphene.
and production costs but also enable graphene to be produced in large quantities. Graphene is one of the strongest, lightest and thinnest conductive materials known to man.
In graphene a single layer of carbon atoms is arranged in the form of a honeycomb structure.
Its highly versatile nature makes it applicable for use in numerous electronics gadgets such as wearables, flexible displays and other sophisticated electronic devices."
and regeneration are the two basic methods for producing graphene, and the biggest hindrance of such methods is the difficulty of washing the graphene oxide due to its high hydrophilic property.
This in turn necessitates the use of high-tech facilities such as high-speed centrifuges with hefty costs and limited capacities."
"Also, the graphene oxide will regenerate before the washing process and in the presence of oxidizers
#Grolltex to Commercialize Graphene Mass Production Technology with The Triton Fund Investment A University of California,
San diego graduate student has found a way to use mass-produced graphene, an allotrope of carbon that is one atom-thick.
Large-scale graphene can be used for applications such as water desalination membranes and flexible electronics. raphene is more conductive than any metal we know of,
said UC San diego Nanoengineering Ph d. candidate Aliaksandr (Alex) Zaretski. t has been known for years that graphene is useful as a water desalination membrane.
We can introduce nanopores into a monolayer of graphene, push large quantities of salt water through and the salt will be rejected on the basis of size
according to Zaretski, is that no one has been able to produce graphene on a large-enough scale for this
The company has developed an environmentally benign process to grow graphene with the same properties as traditional manufacturing.
Grolltex is an early stage company with breakthrough technology for the mass production of graphene.
which graphene is grown on a copper substrate and overlaid with a sheet of nickel. Because graphene adheres better to nickel than to copper,
the entire graphene single-layer can be removed easily and remains intact over large areas. About The Triton Fund:
The Triton Fund (TTF) is owned a wholly subsidiary of Vertical Venture Partners (VVP. TTF invests in companies commercializing technologies being developed at UC San diego (UCSD) or by UCSD alumni.
and Princeton universities have played also a role in the development of this innovative technique, called D Structure Identification of Nanoparticles by Graphene Liquid Cell EM (SINGLE),
A graphene liquid cell is the first component, which is a one-molecule-thick bag capable of holding liquid within it during exposure to the ultra high vacuum of the electron microscope column.
#Simpler Thermodynamic Approach Could Help Improve the Performance of Graphene-Based Nanoelectronic Devices The researchers found that the energy of ultrafast electrical currents passing through graphene is converted very efficiently into electron heat,
making graphene electrons behave just like a hot gas. he heat is distributed evenly over all electrons.
entitled hermodynamic picture of ultrafast charge transport in graphene has recently been published in Nature Communications.
Graphene a single sheet of carbon atoms is known to be a very good electrical conductor. As a result
graphene finds a multitude of applications in modern nanoelectronics. They range from highly efficient detectors for optical
pushing their response times to be as short as a picosecond. he results of this study will help improve the performance of graphene-based nanoelectronic devices such as ultra-high speed transistors and photodetectorssays Professor Dmitry Turchinovich,
who led the research at the MPI-P. In particular they show the way for breaking the terahertz operation speed barrier i e. one thousand billions of oscillations per second for graphene transistors.
#New Revolutionary One-step, High-Yield Graphene Generation Process Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU) and University of Western australia researchers have developed a new process to develop few-layer
graphene for use in energy storage and other material applications that is faster, potentially scalable and surmounts some of the current graphene production limitations.
Graphene is a thin atomic layer of graphite (used in pencils) with numerous properties that could be valuable in a variety of applications,
including medicine, electronics and energy. Discovered only 11 years ago, graphene is one of the strongest materials in the world,
highly conductive, flexible, and transparent. However, current methods for production currently require toxic chemicals and lengthy and cumbersome processes that result in low yield that is not scalable for commercial applications.
and has succeeded in synthesizing few-layer (4-5) graphene in higher yields. It involves a novel optical system (originally invented by BGU Profs.
which few-layer (and eventually single-layer graphene can be synthesized. Source: http://aabgu. org o
#Novel Fabrication Technique Helps Produce Ultra-Thin Hollow Platinum Nanocages for Fuel cells Researchers from Georgia Tech, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Oak ridge National Laboratory,
Linktop to Present Mechanical Smart Watch and Graphene-Based Thermometer Linktop Technology is introducing its mechanical smart watch
and Graphene-based products cloud thermometer to the 2015 Consumer electronics Show (CES) in Las vegas, Nevada (January 6-9, 2015).
"Graphene-based products will soon become a trend and change the world. Graphene's remarkable properties enable amazing applications,
"Mr. Bill continues. Linktop mechanical smart watch is more than a watch. It puts a transparent color TOLED display above the mechanical dial.
Linktop Technology is the world's first company that uses Graphene for fast and accurate heat conduction in a groundbreaking and original body temperature thermometer.
Graphene is well known for its unique structure and physicochemical properties. It is the strongest, thinnest and most conductive material in the world.
By adding Graphene Linktop cloud thermometer can get the measurement data very quickly, which far surpasses other thermometers in the market.
20:26 GMT, 15 june 2015 Scientists have created the world's thinnest light bulb using the wonder material graphene, in a layer just one atom thick.
Graphene a form of carbon has been heralded as having a vast range of uses. The ability for the super-thin material to produce light is seen as a key step to create super-thin computer and TV screens.
Scroll down for video The'bulb'was created by attaching a small strip of'atomically thin'graphene,
the graphene lit up. James Hone, professor of mechanical engineering at Columbia University said:''We've created
The graphene reaches very high temperatures of 2, 500°C but does not melt the electrodes
but using it in its pure form graphene and at its ultimate size limit one atom thick.'
'Graphene, discovered in the UK, is composed of carbon atoms linked in a hexagonal lattice. Its incredible properties include being 200 times stronger than steel by weight,
The discovery of graphene in 2004 by Andre Geim and Konstantin Novoselov, two Russian-born scientists at the University of Manchester, earned the pair the Nobel prize for Physics and knighthoods.
In 2014, a National Graphene Institute was set up in Manchester, with more than £60 million ($94 million) of funding to find uses for the substance f
Unlike graphene, whose electronic properties are similar to those of metals, black arsenic phosphorus behaves like a semiconductor.
To produce graphene-like films the material can be peeled off in ultra thin layers. The thinnest films obtained so far are only two atomic layers thick.
#Graphene film can super cool LEDS Researchers at Chalmers University of Technology have developed a method for efficiently cooling electronics using graphene-based film.
According to the researchers, the graphene film has a thermal conductivity capacity that is four times that of copper. Significantly the team has developed a graphene film that can be attached to silicon substrates.
Research team leader Johan Liu, professor at Chalmers University of Technology, writes: The stronger bonds result from so-called functionalisation of the graphene,
i e. the addition of a property-altering molecule. Having tested several different additives, the Chalmers researchers concluded that an addition of (3-Aminopropyl) triethoxysilane (APTES) molecules has desired the most effect.
it creates so-called silane bonds between the graphene and the electronic component (see picture). The researchers have shown that the in-plane thermal conductivity of the graphene-based film,
with 20 micrometer thickness, can reach a thermal conductivity value of 1600 W/mk, which is four times that of copper.
A likely application says Johan Liu is the integration of graphene-based film into LEDS, lasers and radio frequency components for cooling purposes. s
Unlike graphene, whose electronic properties are similar to those of metals, black arsenic phosphorus behaves like a semiconductor.
To produce graphene-like films the material can be peeled off in ultra thin layers. The thinnest films obtained so far are only two atomic layers thick.
#Graphene-based film can super cool LEDS Researchers at Chalmers University of Technology have developed a method for efficiently cooling electronics using graphene-based film.
According to the researchers, the graphene film has a thermal conductivity capacity that is four times that of copper. Significantly the team has developed a graphene film that can be attached to silicon substrates.
Research team leader Johan Liu, professor at Chalmers University of Technology, writes: ut the methods that have been in place so far have presented the researchers with problems
because they have consisted only of a few layers of thermal conductive atoms. hen you try to add more layers of graphene,
the graphene no longer will adhere to the surface, since the adhesion is held together only by weak Van der waals bonds. e have solved now this problem by managing to create strong covalent bonds between the graphene film and the surface,
which is made an electronic component of silicon, he continues. The stronger bonds result from so-called functionalisation of the graphene,
i e. the addition of a property-altering molecule. Having tested several different additives, the Chalmers researchers concluded that an addition of (3-Aminopropyl) triethoxysilane (APTES) molecules has desired the most effect.
it creates so-called silane bonds between the graphene and the electronic component (see picture). The researchers have shown that the in-plane thermal conductivity of the graphene-based film,
with 20 micrometer thickness, can reach a thermal conductivity value of 1600 W/mk, which is four times that of copper.
A likely application says Johan Liu is the integration of graphene-based film into LEDS, lasers and radio frequency components for cooling purposes n
#New graphene display creates LEDS at an atomic level Graphene has had a rough go of it of late.
This doesn mean that graphene has no electronics applications, however, and a research team from the University of Manchester has published a report detailing how flexible 2d graphene arrays could be used in the next-generation of LED screens.
This new project differs from earlier demonstrations of graphene technology. In September the Cambridge Graphene Centre demonstrated a display that incorporated a graphene electrode.
The new LEDS built by the University of Manchester in this experiment were engineered apparently at an atomic level from multiple layers of crystal lattice as shown below.
This type of structure implements multiple layers of materials horizontally, but because each lattice is only a few atoms thick,
This graphene design, however, appears to buck that trend; the University of Manchester team certified that the graphene-based LEDS have remained robust and continued to emit light for weeks.
The team claims that these graphene-based LEDS can emit light across their entire surface (apparently obviating
or reducing the need for a backlight) and have reached efficiencies that are already comparable to organic LEDS in terms of quantum efficiency (photons emitted per electron injected).
Whether or not that means graphene-based LED TECHNOLOGY can supplant OLED is, of course, an open question.
if graphene LEDS can drive the rich, vibrant colors that have made OLEDS desirable, but if they can,
#Quantum signatures of electronic transport in graphene discovered The key to making useful nanoelectronic devices from graphene is to first understand,
The absence of a bandgap in pure graphene means that although its electrical conductivity is the highest of any material bar none,
not only how to build precisely defined bandgaps into composites of graphene and boron nitride, but they have uncovered also the deeper electronic structure of the material
What the MIT researchers basically did was take single layers of hexagonal graphene and stack them up against single layers of hexagonal boron nitride.
In order to coax the graphene-boron honeycomb into exposing its hidden behaviors, some additional outside influence needs to be imposed.
When the graphene-boron honeycombs are stacked out of alignment, they create something known as a oire pattern
what really has excited the researchers is some of the other physical effects they were able get from graphene.
electron behavior in graphene is ltrarelativisticand therefore is described better using the lesser-known Dirac equation.
electrons in graphene composites configured with just the right alignment can flow at significantly greater speeds,
Furthermore, when many layers of graphene are stacked properly together (with associated greater strength), they can still show the high conduction seen in a single layer h
#New 2d super-material could beat graphene to becoming the new silicon A purely theoretical mathematical study has inspired an experiment that could have serious real-world applications:
a crystalline material called titanium trisulfide could perform almost as well as graphene in many areas, while lacking one key weakness.
potentially making it a better candidate than graphene to allow truly next-generation electronics. The work here is very preliminary, but promising.
much like graphene but without being chemically pure. University of Nebraska-Lincoln chemist Xiao Cheng Zeng found that the computer model predicted the crystals were incredibly conductive,
and had one wonderful electronic property that graphene does not: just as in silicon, the electrons orbiting within titanium-trisulfide can be pushed easily up into the conduction band,
The approach was inspired by graphene itself: Nebraska-Lincoln Alexander Sinitskii created a macro-scale block of titanium trisulfide
The very earliest samples of graphene were made by repeatedly sticking and unsticking clear sticky tape over a powdered sample of pure carbon,
What this means is that purely scientific proofs of concept like current graphene computer chips might be made fully digital
Right now, graphene lack of a useful bandgap means that graphene computers are limited to analog computation only;
after graphene has saturated headline space for so long, is that there was only a few months needed to take this purely theoretical 2d substance from a computer simulation to practical, working transistors.
It possible that some of graphene newer, more efficient production processes might continue to work for titanium trisulfide and if so,
there no telling how quickly it might reach the pure production efficiency graphene science has been developing for almost a decade.
The pure transistor density already achieved with graphene, combined with the ability to create relatively ormaldigital architecture,
And combining graphene power efficiency with silicon current ability to soak up solar radiation could have an even bigger impact.
or exceed the current practicalities of graphene, for a price real people could ever actually afford
#Cooler computers, smartphones using graphene film Almost half of the total energy used in running a computer goes in cooling it down.
Researchers at Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden, have developed a method for efficiently cooling electronics using graphene-based film.
A team led by professor Johan Liu from Chalmers University had shown earlier that graphene can have a cooling effect on silicon-based electronics
but the challenge was to stick a thick layer of graphene to silicon chips. e have solved this problem by creating strong covalent bonds between the graphene film and the surface,
Moreover, functionalisation using this kind of bonding doubles the thermal conductivity of the graphene. ncreased thermal capacity could lead to several new applications for graphene.
One example is the integration of graphene-based film into microelectronic devices and systems, such as highly Efficient light Emitting Diode lasers and radio frequency components for cooling purposes, Liu said. raphene-based film could also pave the way for faster,
#Graphene used to create world's thinnest light bulb Researchers and engineers from Columbia University, Seoul National University (SNU),
and Korea Research Institute of Standards and Science (KRISS) created the device using tiny filaments of graphene attached to metal electrodes,
and graphene-based on-chip optical communications.""Interestingly, the ability of graphene to reach such elevated temperatures without melting
either the underlying substrate or the metal electrodes is because, as graphene is heated up, it is less able to conduct heat away from itself.
As a result, the concentration of heat is limited to the very center of the filaments
and light bouncing off the silicon substrate and back through the graphene filaments themselves.""This (phenomenon) is only possible
because graphene is transparent, unlike any conventional filament, and allows us to tune the emission spectrum by changing the distance to the substrate."
"A graphene lattice is also a particularly efficient way to produce light, due to its inherent ability to maintain excitation levels that allow the freer flow of electrons.
That is, just as graphene is able to rapidly emit electrons when excited by lasers as the electrons remain at an elevated state,
"At the highest temperatures, the electron temperature is much higher than that of acoustic vibrational modes of the graphene lattice,
"These unique thermal properties allow us to heat the suspended graphene up to half of the temperature of the sun,
as compared to graphene on a solid substrate.""Not the first graphene light-bulb University of Manchester researchers lay claim to that but certainly the thinnest,
the new device also opens up many possibilities of alternative light generation at the microscale,
The short video below is an animation showing how the graphene filaments generate Light source: Columbia Universit U
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