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New Properties of Graphene, World's Thinnest Material, Discovered
June 14, 2010 Researchers have discovered that graphene oxide sheets behave like surfactants, the chemicals in soap and shampoo that make stains disperse in ... > full story -
Scientists Strive to Replace Silicon With Graphene on Nanocircuitry
June 10, 2010 Scientists have made a breakthrough toward creating nanocircuitry on graphene, widely regarded as the most promising candidate to replace silicon as the building block of transistors. They have ... > full story -
New Approach to Finding and Removing Defects in Graphene
June 6, 2010 Scientists have pinpointed the noncarbon atoms that create defects when graphene is produced through a technique called graphene-oxide reduction. The researchers have also proposed how to make that ... > full story -
New Graphene-Based Electronics Could Take a Page out of the Silicon Electronics Book
June 1, 2010 A dopant common in building conventional electronics looks promising for making components out of carbon sheets only one atom ... > full story -
Faster Computers With Nanotechnology
May 31, 2010 The silicon transistors in your computer may be replaced in ten years by transistors based on carbon nanotubes. This is what scientists in Sweden are hoping: they have developed a method to control ... > full story -
Liquid Method: Pure Graphene Production
May 30, 2010 Researchers have unveiled a new method for producing bulk quantities of pure, one-atom-thick sheets of carbon called graphene. The research could lead to novel, flexible electronics, carbon ... > full story -
Electron ‘spin’ In Silicon Will Lead to Revolutionary Quantum Chips
May 26, 2010 A silicon-based nanoscale system which aims to harness the 'spin' of electrons to boost the processing power of future computer systems is being ... > full story -
Graphane Yields New Potential: Physicists Dig Theoretical Wells to Mine Quantum Dots
May 25, 2010 Researchers have discovered the strategic extraction of hydrogen atoms from a 2-D sheet of graphane naturally opens up spaces of pure graphene that look -- and act -- like quantum ... > full story -
Optical Quantum Transistor Using Single Atoms
May 14, 2010 With the continued miniaturization of computer chip components, technology can no longer rely on the laws of the macroscopic world. Scientists all over the world are researching technologies based on ... > full story -
New Material Can Keep Electronics Cool: Few Atomic Layers of Graphene Reveal Unique Thermal Properties
May 10, 2010 Researchers have taken another step toward new technology that could keep laptops and other electronic devices from ... > full story
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