Energy & Green Tech
In a new study, North Carolina State University researchers made a cathode in the shape of a thread-like fiber. The researchers were then able to use the fiber to create a zinc-ion battery prototype that could power a wrist ...
Apr 24, 2023
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Engineering
Researchers at Kyushu University, the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST) and Osaka University in Japan have recently introduced a new strategy for synthesizing multi-layer hexagonal boron ...
Energy & Green Tech
Researchers at South China Normal University and Soochow University have reported a new difunctional Li-S battery separator (CC-rGO/AB/PP) derived from a novel synthesis method under extreme pressure (1 Pa, -50 C) to promote ...
Dec 9, 2022
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Electronics & Semiconductors
A soft and flexible electronic "e-skin," so sensitive it can detect the minute temperature difference between an inhaled and an exhaled breath, could form the basis of a new form of on-skin biosensor. The ultrathin material ...
Nov 29, 2022
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Electronics & Semiconductors
In recent years, electronics and chemical engineers have devised different chemical doping techniques to control the sign and concentration of charge carriers in different material samples. Chemical doping methods essentially ...
Robotics
A pioneering project to develop advanced sensors for use in robotic systems, could transform prosthetics and robotic limbs.
Aug 1, 2022
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Engineering
Automated systems combined with new materials will combine as a "dream team" to start a revolution in advanced manufacturing, says a graphene pioneer.
Jul 5, 2022
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Electronics & Semiconductors
Metal-semiconductor junctions, electrical junctions in which a metal is linked to a semiconducting material, are crucial components for numerous electronic and optoelectronic devices. While they are now widely produced and ...
Robotics
Prof. Chen Tao's team at the Ningbo Institute of Materials Technology and Engineering (NIMTE) of Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) has proposed strain-perception-strengthening (SPS) enabled biomimetic soft skin, which realizes ...
May 30, 2022
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Engineering
Rice University chemists working with researchers at the Ford Motor Company are turning plastic parts from "end-of-life" vehicles into graphene via the university's flash Joule heating process.
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Graphene is a one-atom-thick planar sheet of sp2-bonded carbon atoms that are densely packed in a honeycomb crystal lattice. It can be viewed as an atomic-scale chicken wire made of carbon atoms and their bonds. The name comes from GRAPHITE + -ENE; graphite itself consists of many graphene sheets stacked together.
The carbon-carbon bond length in graphene is approximately 0.142 nm. Graphene is the basic structural element of some carbon allotropes including graphite, carbon nanotubes and fullerenes. It can also be considered as an infinitely large aromatic molecule, the limiting case of the family of flat polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons called graphenes.
Measurements have shown that graphene has a breaking strength 200 times greater than steel, making it the strongest material ever tested.
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