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 articleThe story of graphene commercialization is inseparable from the story of graphene cost. In 2010, laboratory-grade graphene (single-layer CVD material) cost tens of thousands of …
The automotive industry is undergoing one of its most significant material transitions in decades. Electrification changes the weight distribution, thermal management requirements, …
Healthcare is one of the most anticipated application areas for graphene, and for understandable reasons. Graphene’s combination of high surface area, tunable surface …
Graphene and carbon nanotubes (CNTs) are the two most commercially significant carbon nanomaterials. Both are derived from the same hexagonal carbon lattice — a CNT is essentially …
Chemical vapor deposition — CVD — is how the highest-quality graphene is made. It is a fundamentally different process from the liquid-phase or electrochemical methods that produce …
Lubrication doesn’t attract headlines the way batteries or displays do. But it represents one of graphene’s most commercially mature and genuinely impactful application …
Market research reports on graphene have been predicting billion-dollar markets since approximately 2012. Many of those early forecasts projected graphene markets of $150 million …
Any new industrial material with widespread application potential eventually faces the same critical questions: Is it safe? Safe for workers handling it? Safe for end users? Safe …
Most electronic devices are rigid. The components that make them work — the semiconducting silicon, the conductive metal traces, the glass substrates — don’t bend, and …
Graphene has become a fixture in premium sports equipment marketing. Head’s graphene tennis rackets, Vittoria’s graphene bicycle tires, Catlike’s graphene cycling …
One of the persistent problems in the graphene market is the gap between what suppliers claim and what they’re actually selling. “Graphene” has been applied to …
Corrosion costs the global economy an estimated $2.5 trillion annually — roughly 3% of global GDP. The dominant protection strategy for steel infrastructure, pipelines, ships, and …