Latest articles on graphene science, industry, and applications
Graphene is one of the most heavily patented materials in history. Filings began accelerating shortly after the 2004 isolation work and have continued at a pace that far outstrips commercial revenue in the sector. For a company building a product with graphene …
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 …