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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 is so strong. It is also why it does not stick to anything. A perfect basal …
Read articleIn 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 …
As graphene production scales from laboratory quantities to industrial volumes — tonnes per year and growing — the question of occupational safety becomes urgent rather than …
The graphene industry has matured considerably since the early startup boom of the 2010s. Many companies that raised capital on graphene hype have quietly folded. The survivors — …
No phrase in the graphene industry generates more excitement — and more confusion — than “graphene battery.” A web search for the term returns millions of results, most …
Graphene and carbon nanotubes are the two most prominent members of the carbon nanomaterial family. Both are built entirely from carbon atoms arranged in hexagonal lattices. Both …
If you have read anything about graphene, you have encountered the claim: graphene is 200 times stronger than steel. It appears in virtually every introductory article, investor …
For over a decade, the graphene industry has been waiting for its breakout electronics product — the application that would prove graphene could move from laboratory curiosity to …
When people talk about “the graphene supply chain,” they usually mean it as a singular thing — a pipeline from raw material to finished product that can be analyzed, …
If you start requesting quotes for graphene, you will encounter something that no other engineering material prepares you for: a price range spanning six orders of magnitude. Bulk …
There is an open secret in the graphene industry that everyone involved knows but few discuss publicly: a significant fraction of the materials sold as “graphene” are …