Latest articles on graphene science, industry, and applications
Most discussion of graphene safety concerns toxicology — what the material does in a lung or a cell. Regulation is a different question, with a different answer. A material can be well characterized toxicologically and still be unlawful to place on a market, …
Read articleA graphene technical data sheet is a marketing document that happens to contain some measurements. Learning to read one — including what has been omitted — is the single most …
For most of graphene’s commercial history, the word itself has been the problem. A supplier could describe a twenty-layer nanoplatelet powder and a monolayer CVD film using …
Graphene is a two-dimensional material, which is both its defining feature and a practical inconvenience. Individual sheets are difficult to handle, and in bulk they tend to …
There is a pattern in graphene composite development that repeats across industries and across decades. A team reads the literature, sees property improvements of tens of percent …
Graphene’s most celebrated property is its perfect, unbroken sp² carbon lattice. That lattice is why it conducts electricity so well, why it conducts heat so well, and why it …
Every conventional graphene production route starts with graphite. Graphite is mined, refined, and shipped, and its price sets a floor under the cost of the graphene made from it. …
Ask someone to describe how graphene is made and you will usually hear about chemical vapor deposition — hot furnaces, copper foils, atomically perfect films. That is how the …
The environmental cost of materials is most often discussed in terms of production: the energy consumed, the emissions generated, the waste produced in making a tonne of steel, a …
Water scarcity is one of the defining resource challenges of the 21st century. Over two billion people live in water-stressed areas, and demand for clean water is growing as …
In 1958, William Hummers and Richard Offeman published a two-page paper in the Journal of the American Chemical Society describing a new method for oxidizing graphite using …
Aerospace is simultaneously one of the most technically demanding and most slowly moving markets for new materials. The performance requirements are extreme — aircraft components …
Graphene-enhanced concrete has been the headline story for graphene in construction — and for good reason, since concrete production generates approximately 8% of global CO₂ …