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Team finds that an electric field applied to a tiny hole in a graphene membrane could compress water molecules

by | Jul 3, 2018 | Development, Graphene applications, Graphene DNA Sequencing, Investment, Medicine, Membranes, Products, Research, Technical / Research

Researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign have developed new theories regarding the compression of water under a high-gradient electric field. They found that a high electric field applied to a tiny hole in a graphene membrane would compress the...

Versarien provides updates on several energy storage R&D fronts

by | Jul 3, 2018 | Cambridge University, Development, Energy storage, GNPs, Graphene applications, Graphene batteries, Graphene for Automotive, Investment, Products, Research, Roll to roll, Supercapacitors, Technical / Research, Versarien

Versarien, the advanced materials engineering group, has provided an update on its activities in relation to graphene-enhanced power storage devices like batteries and supercapacitors. The primary goal of incorporating graphene into these devices, Versarien says, is...

NIST team bring nanofluidics computing closer to reality

by | Jul 1, 2018 | Development, Energy storage, Graphene applications, Graphene Sensors, Graphene water treatment, Investment, Products, Research, Technical / Research, Transistors

Computers based on fluids instead of silicon is not a new concept, and now researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have shown how computational logic operations could be performed in a liquid medium by simulating the trapping of ions...

Chalmers team demonstrated graphene films with higher thermal conductivity than that of graphite films

by | Jul 1, 2018 | Development, Graphene applications, Graphene Oxide, Graphene thermal conductivity, Graphite, Investment, Products, Research, Technical / Research

Researchers at Chalmers University of Technology in Sweden, have developed a graphene assembled film that has over 60% higher thermal conductivity than graphite film – despite the fact that graphite consists of many layers of graphene. The graphene film shows great...

Researchers find the exact balance in which graphene coatings can promote hydrogen evolution reaction

by | Jun 29, 2018 | Development, Fuel Cells, Graphene applications, Graphene coating, Investment, Products, Research, Technical / Research

A collaboration led by the University of Tsukuba has recently optimized an approach to increase the stability of catalysts used in the hydrogen evolution reaction without significantly sacrificing activity. The team found that coating catalyst nanoparticles with an...