Coal-derived carbon dots help grow ultrathin insulating layers on graphene and MoS2 chips
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...
Scientists build a nuclear clock that could make atomic clocks obsolete
Scientists in Vienna have achieved a major breakthrough in timekeeping by creating the world’s first self-stabilizing nuclear clock, a technology that could eventually surpass even the most precise atomic clocks. Instead of relying on electrons in atoms, the clock...
A famous quantum effect can finally be predicted in real materials
Scientists have developed a powerful new way to calculate the Kondo effect, a strange quantum phenomenon that appears when magnetic atoms are embedded in metals. Instead of relying on simplified models, the method uses the real atomic and electronic structures of...
Dana Gas and Levidian start graphene production from methane in Sharjah
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 one ton. The start comes months after the two...
A quantum prediction from 1931 just came to life
Nearly a century after physicist Hans Bethe predicted them, scientists have created and directly observed unusual quantum states known as “Bethe strings” in an ultracold gas. By cooling cesium atoms to near absolute zero and trapping them in thousands of tiny...
GMG’s fast-charging graphene battery holds up through 1,000 cycles in new tests
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 by the Battery Innovation Center of...
Graphene sensors read stroke damage from the shape of brain electrical waves
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 brain...
INBRAIN and partners pair graphene brain probes with a magnetically guided implantation robot
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 Neuroelectronics, imec, Fraunhofer, Leiden...
Physicists just found the ‘ghost’ of superconductivity
Physicists have found striking evidence for an unusual form of superconducting behavior in uranium ditelluride, where electron pairs organize into rippling patterns called pair density waves. Even more surprisingly, these patterns appear to survive after ordinary...
First Graphene’s PureGRAPH enters sports shoes with first Flux Footwear order
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 leisure range. The additive...