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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 cubic metre of concrete, a kilogram of polymer. This is important, but it tells …
Read articleMost 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 …
When people talk about graphene’s remarkable properties, electrical conductivity and mechanical strength tend to get the most attention. Thermal conductivity — …
Few graphene applications have attracted more hype — or more skepticism — than batteries. Since the early 2010s, graphene has been described in press releases and crowdfunding …
If you’ve searched for graphene to buy, you’ve almost certainly encountered two products listed side by side: graphene oxide (GO) and reduced graphene oxide (rGO). They …
The construction industry’s search for cement-reduction strategies has converged on a core principle: add a small amount of a high-performance nanomaterial to concrete, …
The graphene industry’s sustainability narrative has historically focused on graphene’s own environmental footprint — is production energy-intensive, what waste streams …
In 2010, research-grade graphene oxide cost approximately $200,000 per kilogram from laboratory suppliers. By 2015, commercial graphene nanoplatelets were available at …
Coatings represent one of graphene’s most natural commercial applications. The reasoning is intuitive: graphene is an atomically thin, impermeable barrier that is chemically …
If you are buying graphene, evaluating a supplier, or assessing the quality of graphene-enhanced products, you will encounter Raman spectroscopy data. It is the single most common …