graphene holds great potential for a variety of applications, from photovoltaics to lasers and sensors. Two-dimensional materials could soon provide useful photonic solutions for our 3-D world....

Nanomaterials, such as nano-wires and nanotubes, are designed to have quantum confinement in one or two dimensions so that their properties in other dimensions can be engineered, differing from that...

The extraordinary properties of graphene have reportedly been measured with an accuracy never before achieved, confirming many of its strangest features but revealing significant departures from...

Ever since a single-atom-thick film of graphite was first successfully synthesized back in 2004, graphene has been on a decade-long ride through applications ranging from photovoltaics and...

University of Manchester scientists have created a new material which could replace or compete with Teflon in thousands of everyday applications, including new types of LED devices. Professor...

Digital communications speed limits could soon be broken, thanks to a new graphene-based optical device that could theoretically reach as high as 500 GHz for a single modulator. Xiang Zhang, an...

A study of how electrons behave in circuitry made from ultrathin layers of graphite – known as graphene – suggests the material could provide the foundation for a new generation of nanometer-scale...

graphene, the two-dimensional crystalline form of carbon, is a potential superstar for the electronics industry. With freakishly mobile electrons that can blaze through the material at nearly the...

By attaching what amounts to a 3-D bramble patch to each side of a carbon sheet, scientists say they were able to dissolve sheets containing as many as 168 carbon atoms to make large stable graphene...

graphene-based photodetectors can efficiently convert infrared light into electrical signals, three independent studies report this week. The work "makes it very likely that graphene will soon...

Researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute developed a new method for using water to tune the band gap of the nanomaterial graphene, opening the door to new graphene-based transistors,...

The single-atom thick material graphene maintains its high thermal conductivity when supported by a substrate, a critical step to advancing the material from a laboratory phenomenon to a useful...

Only a few atomic layers thick, 2D materials such as graphene, the compound semiconductor germanium selenium, the transition metal dichalcogenide molybdenum ditelluride, and others could provide new...

Researchers at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) have discovered a method for mass production of nanomaterial graphene and have already produced the largest graphene sample reported...

Last July, the U.S. unveiled a national institute for integrated photonics backed by $600 million in federal, state and private funding. The Rochester, N.Y.-based American Institute for Manufacturing...

Scientists have made a breakthrough toward creating nanocircuitry on graphene, which is widely regarded as the most promising candidate to replace silicon as the building block of transistors. ...

Incandescent bulbs may be a thing of the past, but the principle of light-emitting filaments may have a new use in displays and optical communications. Researchers from the U.S. and South Korea...

Rice University researchers have found a way to stitch graphene and hexagonal boron nitride (h-BN) into a two-dimensional quilt that offers new paths of exploration for materials scientists. ...

graphene's ability to conduct electricity has been found to be higher than any other known material at room temperature. The research shows that graphene, a single-atom-thick sheet of graphite that...

A collaborative research project has brought the world a step closer to producing a new material on which future nanotechnology could be based. Researchers across Europe, including the National...