#Degrading BPA with visible light and a new hybrid nanoparticle photocatalyst Over the course of the last half century, BPA has gone from miracle to menace.
Their findings, published this week in the journal APL Materials("Reduced graphene oxide and Ag wrapped Tio2 photocatalyst for enhanced visible light photocatalysis),
The photocatalytic nanomaterial can be used to treat water using visible light. How the New Catalyst Works Their new material breaks down BPA through photocatalytic oxidation, a process in
Then, they wrapped the Ag/Tio2 nanoparticles in sheets of reduced graphene oxide (RGO), a thin layer of carbon atoms arranged in a honeycomb pattern.
"We strongly feel the developed nano-photocatalyst could be one of the nanomaterials that can sustainably address said problem,
while the photoinduced precipitation ensures nanomaterials are released not in the environment. Ferdinand Brandl and Nicolas Bertrand, the two lead authors, are former postdocs in the laboratory of Robert Langer, the David H. Koch Institute Professor at MIT Koch Institute
If left alone, these nanomaterials would remain suspended and dispersed evenly in water. But when exposed to UV light,
as another example of a persistent pollutant that could potentially be remediated using these nanomaterials. nd for analytical applications where you don need as much volume to purify or concentrate,
Toward Developing High-performance Graphene-Based Architectures for Energy storage devices"."The conundrum researchers have faced in developing miniature energy storage devices,
graphene, a conductive polymer and carbon nanotubes, which are atom-thick latticelike networks of carbon formed into cylinders.
Graphene, made from single atom-thick layers of graphite, was a suitable candidate due its electronic performance
The graphene in liquid form was mixed with the conductive polymer and reduced to solid and the carbon nanotubes carefully inserted between the graphene layers to form a self-assembled flat-packed,
wafer-thin supercapacitor material. he real challenge was how to assemble these three components into a single structure with the best use of the space available,
which enabled natural chemical interactions to prevent the graphene layers clumping together. The result was a 3d shape with, thanks to the carbon nanotubes, a massive surface area, excellent charge capacity that is also foldable.
or sophisticated equipment. ur graphene-based flexible composite is highly conductive, lightweight, is able to fold like a roll
if a GST layer were sandwiched between two thin graphite layers or even between two layers of graphene.
The sheets of cross-linked carbon atoms of which graphene is comprised fulfil the necessary requirements. The physicists in Ralph Ernstorfers group now want to experiment further with precisely these sandwiches of different materials.
Thats what Northeastern physicists Swastik Kar and Srinivas Sridhar found during their four-year project to modify graphene, a stronger-than-steel infinitesimally thin lattice of tightly packed carbon atoms.
the addition of boron and nitrogen to graphenes carbon to connote the conductivity necessary to produce an electrical insulator.
including those that are made with graphene electrodes a
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#Graphene Filaments Provide Tunable On-Chip Light source Graphene Filaments Provide Tunable On-Chip Light Sourcenew YORK, June 15,
Researchers from the U s. and South korea collaborated to develop an on-chip visible light source using filaments made of graphene.
They attached small strips of graphene to metal electrodes, suspended the strips above a silicon substrate,
and graphene-based on-chip optical communications.""Schematic illustration of electrically biased suspended graphene and light emission from the center of the suspended graphene.
Images courtesy of Young Duck Kim/Columbia Engineering. The ability to create light in small structures on the surface of a microchip is a crucial step towards the development of fully integrated photonic circuits.
The ability of graphene to achieve such high temperatures without melting the substrate or the metal electrodes is due to another interesting property:
graphene becomes a much poorer conductor of heat. High temperatures are confined to a small ot spotin the center."
"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 to up to half of the temperature of the sun
as compared to graphene on a solid substrate.""By measuring the spectrum of the light emitted from the graphene,
the team was able to show that graphene was reaching temperatures of above 2500°Celsius,
hot enough 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,"said Young Duck Kim, a postdoctoral research scientist at Columbia. An optical image, top,
and micrograph, bottom, of bright, visible light emission from suspended graphene. The spectrum of the emitted light showed peaks at specific wavelengths,
which the team discovered was due to interference between the light emitted directly from the graphene
and light reflecting off the silicon substrate and passing back through the graphene.""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,
The team also demonstrated the scalability of their technique by realizing large-scale arrays of graphene light emitters grown with a chemical vapor deposition (CVD) process."
but using it in its pure form graphene and at its ultimate size limit one atom thick,
#Boron Turns Graphene into Blue Light Emitter FRANKFURT, Germany, July 14, 2015 Chemists at Goethe University Frankfurt have developed a new class of organic luminescent materials through the targeted introduction
of boron atoms into graphene. The compounds exhibit an intense blue fluorescence and, consequently, are of interest for use as organic LEDS (OLEDS).
Within graphene, benzene rings are fused to form a honeycomb structure. Sections of this structure, referred to as nanographenes or polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHS), play an integral role in organic electronics.
Within the study, boron atoms specifically replaced the two meso carbon atoms within the PAH, which resulted in its ability to transform a near-infrared dye into a blue luminophore.
The boron-containing nanographenes have an impact on two key properties of an OLED luminophore
"For a long time, efforts were focused largely on affecting the properties of nanographenes by chemically manipulating their edges,
Hertz and Wagner anticipate that such materials like the graphene flakes they developed will be particularly suitable for use in portable electronic devices,
#Scientists Make Friction Disappear By Coating Diamonds With Graphene Diamonds are already one of the hardest natural substances known to science.
But combine them with graphene, and diamond nanoparticles are also incredibly slippery, which can be useful
Scientists at Argonne National Laboratory recently announced that the combination of tiny bits of diamond with the two-dimensional graphene created tiny structures that had superlubricity--meaning that the friction between them
When the diamond nanoparticles came in contact with the thin sheets of graphene (carbon that's only an atom thick) the graphene rolled up around the diamond nanoparticles,
With the new graphene coating, the diamond particles could roll far more easily over a larger diamond-like surface that the researchers used as a testing ground.
It's specifically the interaction between graphene and diamond that makes the superlubricity possible right now,
including those that are made with graphene electrodes
#Gold Nano-Spirals Could Protect Against Identity Theft Most other investigators who have studied the remarkable properties of microscopic spirals have done so by arranging discrete nanoparticles in a spiral pattern:
They then dissolved this nanocellulose and freeze-dried it, so that the moisture evaporates without the material ever going through a liquid state.
#Laser-induced graphene'super'for electronics: Flexible 3-D supercapacitors tested Rice university scientists advanced their recent development of laser-induced graphene (LIG) by producing
and testing stacked, three-dimensional supercapacitors, energy storage devices that are important for portable, flexible electronics. The Rice lab of chemist James Tour discovered last year that firing a laser at an inexpensive polymer burned off other elements and left a film of porous graphene, the much-studied atom-thick
lattice of carbon. The researchers viewed the porous, conductive material as a perfect electrode for supercapacitors or electronic circuits.
An electron microscope image shows the cross section of laser-induced graphene burned into both sides of a polyimide substrate.
since their work to make vertically aligned supercapacitors with laser-induced graphene on both sides of a polymer sheet.
But the graphene retains its ability to move electrons quickly and gives it the quick charge
and Rogers, co-authors of the paper,"Assembly of micro/nanomaterials into complex, three-dimensional architectures by compressive buckling,
#Defying the Achilles heel of'wonder material'graphene: Resilience to extreme conditions Researchers from the University of Exeter have discovered that Graphexeter--a material adapted from the'wonder material'graphene--can withstand prolonged exposure to both high temperature and humidity.
The research showed that the material could withstand relative humidity of up to 100 per cent at room temperature for 25 days as well as temperatures of up to 150c--or as high as 620c in vacuum.
The superior stability of Graphexeter as compared to graphene was unexpected since the molecules used to make Graphexeter (that is Fecl3) simply melt in air at room temperature.
At just one atom thick graphene is the thinnest substance capable of conducting electricity. It is very flexible
and engineers to adapt graphene for flexible electronics. This has been a challenge because of its sheet resistance
In 2012 the teams of Dr Craciun and Profesor Russo from the University of Exeter's Centre for Graphene science discovered that sandwiched molecules of ferric chloride between two graphene layers make a whole new system that is the best known transparent
#Researchers use oxides to flip graphene conductivity A team of researchers from the University of Pennsylvania;
By demonstrating a new way to change the amount of electrons that reside in a given region within a piece of graphene they have a proof-of-principle in making the fundamental building blocks of semiconductor devices using the 2-D material.
Moreover their method enables this value to be tuned through the application of an electric field meaning graphene circuit elements made in this way could one day be rewired dynamically without physically altering the device.
Chemically doping graphene to achieve p -and n-type version of the material is possible but it means sacrificing some of its unique electrical properties.
but manufacturing and placing the necessary electrodes negates the advantages graphene's form factor provides.
We've come up with a non-destructive reversible way of doping Rappe said that doesn't involve any physical changes to the graphene.
The team's technique involves depositing a layer of graphene so it rests on but doesn't bond to a second material:
Here we have graphene standing by on the surface of the oxide but not binding to it.
or gaining electrons the graphene says'I can hold the electrons for you and they'll be right nearby.'
Because the lithium niobate domains can dictate the properties Shim said different regions of graphene can take on different character depending on the nature of the domain underneath.
That allows as we have demonstrated a simple means of creating a p-n junction or even an array of p-n junctions on a single flake of graphene.
Such an ability should facilitate advances in graphene that might be analogous to what p-n junctions and complementary circuitry has done for the current state-of-the-art semiconductor electronics.
What's even more exciting are the enabling of optoelectronics using graphene and the possibility of waveguiding lensing and periodically manipulating electrons confined in an atomically thin material.
and the charge carrier density of the graphene suspended over it. And because the oxide polarization can be altered easily the type
and extent of supported graphene doping can be altered along with it. You could come along with a tip that produces a certain electric field
and the graphene's charge density would reflect that change. You could make the graphene over that region p-type
or n-type and if you change your mind you can erase it and start again.
and director of the U s. Department of energy-funded Nanoporous materials Genome Center based in Minnesota. Predicting the zeolites'performance required serious computing power efficient computer algorithms and accurate descriptions of the molecular interactions.
In that case a DNA-string is pulled through one of these nanochannels after which the building blocks of DNA the nucleotides can be analysed subsequently.
who led the research at Brookhaven Lab's Center for Functional Nanomaterials (CFN), a DOE Office of Science User Facility.
and the nanomaterials involved in energy conversion or storage. But this also means that the X-rays pass straight through conventional lenses without being bent or focussed.
it obviously exceeds the record of other"high-Tc superconductors"such as fullerene (C60) superconductors (Tc 33 K) and Mgb2 (Tc 39k),
#'No-inkcolor printing with nanomaterials In this case, the print features are very fine--visible only with the aid of a high-powered electron microscope.
The lenses were made by researchers from APS and NSLS II at BNL and the Center for Functional Nanomaterials at Brookhaven.
#Graphene quantum dot LEDS Graphene is a 2d carbon nanomaterial with many fascinating properties that can enable to creation of next-generation electronics.
However, it is known that graphene is not applicable to optical devices due to its lack of an electronic band gap.
On the other hand, graphene quantum dots (GQDS), which are merely a few nanometers large in the lateral dimension, are shown to emit light upon excitation in the visible spectral range.
Seunghyup Yoo (Electrical engineering) have succeeded in developing LEDS based on graphene quantum dots. Highly pure GQDS were synthesized by an environmentally-friendly method designed by Prof.
The three-part structures consist of a base of graphene followed by atomic layers of either molybdenum disulfide (Mos2
and the Center for Functional Nanomaterials at the U s. Department of energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory, has demonstrated a new process to construct such diamond nanocavities in
Research was carried out in part at the Center for Functional Nanomaterials, Brookhaven National Laboratory, which is supported by the U s. Department of energy, Office of Science, Office of Basic energy Sciences, under Contract No.
"Arraythe scientists synthesized the materials at Brookhaven Lab's Center for Functional Nanomaterials (CFN) and characterized the nanoscale architectures using electron microscopy at CFN
who leads the Electronic nanomaterials group at CFN.""This order persists over macroscopic areas and would be difficult to achieve with any other method."
Nanomaterials play an essential role in many areas of daily life. There is thus a large interest to gain detailed knowledge about their optical and electronic properties.
from the characterization of nanomaterials and biological nanosystems to spectroscopy of quantum emitters. e
#Nanostructure design enables pixels to produce two different colors depending on polarization of incident light Through precise structural control,
#Graphene: Magnetic sensor 100 times more sensitive than silicon equivalent Scientists have created a graphene-based magnetic sensor 100 times more sensitive than an equivalent device based on silicon.
Bosch has long been involved in sensor technology, notably in the automotive sector. In 2008, the company expanded beyond its pressure, acceleration and gyroscopic motion sensors, to geomagnetic, temperature, humidity,
Interested in whether graphene could enable new applications and improved sensor performance, Bosch has been investigating the use of the two-dimensional material in its pressure,
Top-down approaches to graphene device fabrication such as mechanical and chemical exfoliation would not work on a commercial scale,
Roelver cautioned that graphene-based sensor applications will require 5-10 years before they can compete with established technologies.
It is high carrier mobility that makes graphene useful in such applications, and the results achieved by the Bosch-led team confirm this.
Comparing and contrasting materials, Roelver in his Graphene Week presentation showed that the worst case graphene scenarios roughly match a silicon reference.
In short, graphene provides for a high-performance magnetic sensor with low power and footprint requirements. In terms of hard numbers
the result shown by Roelver centred on a direct comparison between the sensitivity of a silicon-based Hall sensor with that of the Bosch-MPI graphene device.
whereas with the boron nitride and graphene device the figure is 7, 000. That is a two orders of magnitude improvement.
stressing that Bosch takes graphene very seriously indeed as a future commercial technology y
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transparent nanomaterial made from wood. Compared to other polymers like plastics, the wood nanomaterial is biocompatible
and has relatively low thermal expansion coefficient, which means the material won't change shape as the temperature changes.
physicists have used graphene to build lightweight ultrasonic loudspeakers and microphones, enabling people to mimic bats
The diaphragms in the new devices are graphene sheets a mere one atom thick that have the right combination of stiffness,
Graphene consists of carbon atoms laid out in a hexagonal, chicken-wire arrangement, which creates a tough,
"There's a lot of talk about using graphene in electronics and small nanoscale devices, but they're all a ways away,
because we've worked out how to make the graphene and mount it, and it's easy to scale up."
"Arrayarraytwo years ago, Zhou built loudspeakers using a sheet of graphene for the diaphragm, and since then has been developing the electronic circuitry to build a microphone with a similar graphene diaphragm.
One big advantage of graphene is that the atom-thick sheet is so lightweight that it responds well to the different frequencies of an electronic pulse, unlike today's piezoelectric microphones and speakers.
This comes in handy when using ultrasonic transmitters and receivers to transmit large amounts of information through many different frequency channels simultaneously,
Graphene membranes are also more efficient, converting over 99 percent of the energy driving the device into sound,
"Graphene is a magical material; it hits all the sweet spots for a communications device, "he said.
The use of graphene allows the authors to obtain very flat frequency responses in a wide range of frequencies,
"Zettl noted that audiophiles would also appreciate the graphene loudspeakers and headphones, which have a flat response across the entire audible frequency range."
"A number of years ago, this device would have been darn near impossible to build because of the difficulty of making freestanding graphene sheets,
"But over the past decade the graphene community has come together to develop techniques to grow,
transport and mount graphene, so building a device like this is now very straightforward; the design is simple
porous nanomaterials using specially structured molecules called block copolymers. They first used a carbon dioxide laser in Thompson's lab to"write"the nanoporous materials onto a silicon wafer.
A film, spin-coated on the wafer, contained a block copolymer, which directed the assembly of a polymer resin.
termed phosphorene, in the same simple way as the Nobel-prize winning discovery of graphene. Unlike graphene, phosphorene is a semiconductor, like silicon,
which is the basis of current electronics technology.""Because phosphorene is so thin and light,
When the lubricant materials--graphene and diamond-like carbon (DLC)--slid against each other, the graphene began rolling up to form hollow cylindrical"scrolls"that helped to practically eliminate friction.
These so-called nanoscrolls represented a completely new mechanism for superlubricity a state in which friction essentially disappears."
The experimental setup consisted of small patches of graphene (a two-dimensional single-sheet form of pure carbon) sliding against a DLC-coated steel ball.
The graphene-DLC combination was registering a very low friction coefficient (a ratio that measures the force of friction between two surfaces),
This led to their discovery of the graphene nanoscrolls, which helped to fill in the blanks.
when the graphene patches were in an unscrolled state, "Deshmukh said. The computational scientists had an idea to overcome this issue.
They tried incorporating nanodiamond particles into their simulations to see if the hard material could help stabilize the nanoscrolls
The graphene patches spontaneously rolled around the nanodiamonds, which held the scrolls in place and resulted in sustained superlubricity.
The simulation results fed into a new set of experiments with nanodiamonds that confirmed the same."
"Arrayunfortunately, the addition of nanodiamonds did not address the material's aversion to water. The simulations showed that water suppresses the formation of scrolls by increasing the adhesion of graphene to the surface.
While this greatly limits the hybrid material's potential applications, its ability to maintain superlubricity in dry environments is a significant breakthrough in itself.
it would leave the graphene and nanodiamonds on one side of a moving part, and diamond-like carbon on the other side.
the graphene nanoscrolls could potentially work in humid environments as well.""Arraythe team's groundbreaking nanoscroll discovery would not have been possible without a supercomputer like Mira.
Warren Chan, an expert in nanomaterials-based diagnostics at the University of Toronto in Canada
#Laser-induced graphene#super#for electronics Rice university scientists advanced their recent development of laser-induced graphene (LIG) by producing
The Rice lab of chemist James Tour discovered last year that firing a laser at an inexpensive polymer burned off other elements and left a film of porous graphene, the much-studied atom-thick
since their work to make vertically aligned supercapacitors with laser-induced graphene on both sides of a polymer sheet.
But the graphene retains its ability to move electrons quickly and gives it the quick charge
In new findings the researchers have demonstrated how attaching nanodiamonds containing itrogen-vacancy centersto the new metamaterial further enhances the production of single photons, workhorses of quantum information processing,
cryptography and communications technologies. hese results indicate that the brightness of the nanodiamond-based single-photon emitter could be enhanced substantially by placing such an emitter on the surface of the hyperbolic metamaterial,
Placing a nanodiamond containing an NV center on the surface of hyperbolic metamaterials not only enhances the emission of photons,
Nazar group is known best for their 2009 Nature Materials paper demonstrating the feasibility of a Li-S battery using nanomaterials.
or graphenes could stabilize the polysulphides by physically trapping them. But in an unexpected twist, they discovered metal oxides could be the key.
and graduate students Connor Hart and Quan Pang also discovered that graphene oxide seems to work by a similar mechanism.
Looking at carbon-based graphene another atom-thick material with promise for chip development, researchers speculated that silicon atoms could be structured in a broadly similar way.
Akinwande, who also works on graphene transistors, sees value in silicene relationship to silicon, which chipmakers already know how to work with. part from introducing a new player in the playground of 2-D materials, silicene,
#Graphene displays clear prospects for flexible electronics Published in the scientific journal Nature Materials, University of Manchester and University of Sheffield researchers show that new 2d esigner materialscan be produced to create flexible, see-through and more efficient electronic devices.
The new research shows that graphene and related 2d materials could be utilised to create light emitting devices for the next-generation of mobile phones,
One-atom thick graphene was isolated first and explored in 2004 at The University of Manchester.
new possibilities for graphene based optoelectronics have now been realised. Freddie Withers, Royal Academy of Engineering Research Fellow at The University of Manchester, who led the production of the devices,
Scientists at the Center for Functional Nanomaterials (CFN), a DOE Office of Science User Facility at Brookhaven Lab, helped to fabricate
The new findings using a layer of one-atom-thick graphene deposited on top of a similar 2-D layer of a material called hexagonal boron nitride (hbn) are published in the journal Nano Letters.
The hybrid material blocks light when a particular voltage is applied to the graphene, while allowing a special kind of emission and propagation,
Light interaction with graphene produces particles called plasmons while light interacting with hbn produces phonons.
The properties of the graphene allow precise control over light, while hbn provides very strong confinement and guidance of the light.
says, his work represents significant progress on understanding tunable interactions of light in graphene-hbn.
The work is retty criticalfor providing the understanding needed to develop optoelectronic or photonic devices based on graphene and hbn,
#How to make continuous rolls of graphene Graphene is a material with a host of potential applications,
the need for a scalable and cost-effective method for continuous manufacturing of graphene films. That could finally change with a new process described in the journal Scientific Reports by researchers at MIT and the University of Michigan.
MIT mechanical engineering Associate professor A. John Hart, the paper senior author, says the new roll-to-roll manufacturing process described by his team addresses the fact that for many proposed applications of graphene
Making such quantities of graphene would represent a big leap from present approaches where researchers struggle to produce small quantities of graphene often pulling these sheets from a lump of graphite using adhesive tape,
or producing a film the size of a postage stamp using a laboratory furnace. But the new method promises to enable continuous production,
That could finally unleash applications for graphene, which has unique electronic and optical properties and is one of the strongest materials known.
and elsewhere to make graphene using a small vacuum chamber into which a vapor containing carbon reacts on a horizontal substrate,
where the graphene is formed on the ribbon. The chamber is heated to approximately 1, 000 degrees Celsius to perform the reaction.
high-quality single layer of graphene is created. When rolled 20 times faster, it still produces a coating,
but the graphene is of lower quality, with more defects. Some potential applications, such as filtration membranes
may require very high-quality graphene, but other applications, such as thin-film heaters may work well enough with lower-quality sheets,
So far, the new system produces graphene that is ot quite equal to the best that can be done by batch processing,
Further work on details such as pretreatment of the substrate to remove unwanted surface defects could lead to improvements in the quality of the resulting graphene sheets
such as between higher production rate and graphene quality. Then, he says, he next step is to understand how to push the limits,
Hart says that while this study focuses on graphene, the machine could be adapted to continuously manufacture other two-dimensional materials,
which his group is also studying. his is high-quality research that represents significant progress on the path to scalable production methods for large-area graphene,
It has the potential to lead to significantly lower production costs for graphene, if it can be scaled to larger copper-foil widths. d
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