Video: Why should Europe invest in graphene?

Nice video with people from science around the Europe explaining why graphene is an important discovery and why it should be invested into.

Graphene traps light

Scientists can now control light at nanoscale with graphene. Which means we will have better nano-sensors.

Scientists control light at a nanoscale with graphene

Finally - Transistor (Barristor) made of graphene

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Samsung has developed what others were trying to do until now. Graphene could not switch on/off well and they seem to have nailed it.

For a more scientific information, read through the Science Magazine abstract on Graphene Barristor, a Triode Device with a Gate-Controlled Schottky Barrier.

For a less scientific mind, read the Samsung develops graphene device for transistor use.

Graphene paper discovery

Big news, big news! Scientists have developed a graphene paper.

Why is it big? Because the material binds water as well as repels it (What?). Now, it also has some shape memory and other features added to it.

This information is spreading quickly. Quite a few mentions on twitter, will give you a lot of results.

Will you be wearing Graphexeter soon?

There's a new material made from two layers of graphene sandwiching chlorine that supposedly makes graphene even more conductive without sacrificing transparency.

Scientists Invent Graphene for Wearable Electronics, Mirrors Tom's Hardware Guide The new material is call GraphExeter and is based on two graphene layers with ferric chloride molecules between them. According to the research report, ferric chloride greatly improves the electrical conductivity of graphene, but do not affect its ...

No estimate yet on when this new material will be available - but imagine the uses in women's bikinis!

Graphene muscles for robots

There is a nice article about how muscles can be made of graphene for new generation of robots. Appears that the muscle technology is one of the few essentials that has been keeping the robotics at bay until now.

Check out the reference article at geek.com.

Graphene - What you may have missed by now

1. Research in graphene has actually been rewarded with a nobel prize in physics / 2010 (Andre Geim, Konstantin Novoselov)
2. Is called the 'perfect atomic lattice', because of its molecular structure, being one atom thick