Graphene - watch this space
Blog You may have noticed the odd article about a new form of carbon called graphene. Graphene is certainly an odd substance - it's a layer of carbon atoms in a hexagonal lattice, just one atom thick. Graphene can be a metal or a semiconductor, it has...
[March 7, 2007, 20:18]
Flashy balls make for mega-memory
Blog We've reported on the extremely weird behaviour of graphene before: it seems that when you put just a few sheets of planar carbon together, electrons behave almost as if they're a different kind of particle operating under different physical laws.
[April 22, 2008, 15:42]
Pencil + sticky tape = desktop supercollider + post-silicon processors
Blog Graphene is made from stacks of very flat sheets of hexagonally linked carbon atoms. Then, by the insanely simple expedient of using adhesive tape to peel off layers from ordinary graphite, then rubbing those layers gently against an oxidised...
[November 6, 2007, 9:15]
British scientists create atom-thick transistor
News The researchers, from the University of Manchester, published a paper in the journal Science last week, in which they said they had managed to carve tiny electronic circuits out of a substance called graphene, with each transistor being barely...
[April 21, 2008, 14:17]
Carbon copy the future of physics
Blog A paper from two researchers, Yakov Kopelevich in San Paulo and Pablo Esquinaz in Leipzig, reports that good old fashioned graphite has a whole bunch of exciting electronic properties and that this, rather than the currently fashionable single...
[January 3, 2008, 19:34]
Nano Tech In The Extreme.
Blog A breaktrough is reported by engineers and scientists in the development of a new carbon based material called graphene. Hi everyone. Before getting to the point of this particular nano blog, lets have a quick look at where we are today in the...
[September 29, 2008, 9:25]
A new spin on battery technology
Blog That's hot news for spintronics, which we've covered previously and which, together with graphene, has the most exciting potential for fundamentally new computational devices. Researchers at the Universties of Miami, Tokyo and Tohoku have...
[March 12, 2009, 12:21]
IBM's 35 atoms and the rise of nanotech
News There are other directions of nanotechnology research: Eigler gave graphene and topological insulators as possibilities. It may be [used with] regular conventional electronics, [or] with carbon nanotubes or graphene," he said.
[September 29, 2009, 15:53]
