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Graphene research Breakthrough - Graphene produced with unique edge pattern - Crucial step toward using Graphene for 'Nanoelectronic components'

Graphene research Breakthrough – Graphene produced with unique edge pattern – Crucial step toward using Graphene for ‘Nanoelectronic components’

Different patterns are formed at the edges of nanographene. Zigzags are particularly interesting — and particularly unstable. FAU researchers have now succeeded in creating stable layers of carbon with this pattern on their edges. Credit: FAU/Konstantin Amsharov

Bay, fjord, cove, armchair and zigzag—chemists use terms such as these to describe the shapes taken by the edges of nanographene.

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Environmentally friendly photoluminescent nanoparticles for more vivid display colors

IMAGE: THESE ARE STRUCTURES OF SILVER INDIUM SULFIDE/GALLIUM SULFIDE CORE/SHELL QUANTUM DOTS AND PICTURES OF THE CORE/SHELL QUANTUM DOTS UNDER ROOM LIGHT. view more 

CREDIT: OSAKA UNIVERSITY

Osaka, Japan – Most current displays do not always accurately represent the world’s colors as we perceive them by eye, instead only representing roughly 70% of them. To make better displays with true colors…

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Breakthrough in thin electrically conducting sheets paves way for smaller electronic devices

Through nanotechnology, physicists Dr Raymond McQuaid, Dr Amit Kumar and Professor Marty Gregg from Queen’s University’s School of Mathematics and Physics, have created unique 2-D sheets, called domain walls, which exist within crystalline materials.

The sheets are almost as thin as the wonder-material graphene, at just a few atomic layers. However, they can do something that graphene can’t –…

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Researchers make major breakthrough in smart printed electronics

Researchers make major breakthrough in smart printed electronics

Prof Jonathan Coleman has fabricated printed transistors consisting entirely of 2-dimensional nanomaterials for the first time. Credit: AMBER, Trinity College Dublin

Researchers in AMBER, the Science Foundation Ireland-funded materials science research centre hosted in Trinity College Dublin,have fabricated printed transistors consisting entirely of 2-dimensional nanomaterials for the first…

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Spray-on memory could enable bendable digital storage

Spray-on memory could enable bendable digital storage

Duke University researchers have developed a new ‘spray-on’ digital memory (upper left) that could be used to build programmable electronic devices on flexible materials like paper, plastic or fabric. To demonstrate a simple application of …more

USB flash drives are already common accessories in offices and college campuses. But thanks to the rise in printable electronics, digital storage devices…

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ORNL: Nano-Ribbons may hold Key to 'on-off' states for Graphene ~ Applications in Electronics

ORNL: Nano-Ribbons may hold Key to ‘on-off’ states for Graphene ~ Applications in Electronics

“Using electrons like photons could provide the basis for a new electronic device that could carry current with virtually no resistance, even at room temperature.”

  A new way to grow narrow ribbons of graphene, a lightweight and strong structure of single-atom-thick carbon atoms linked into hexagons, may address a shortcoming that has prevented the material from achieving its full potential in…

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Duke University: Silver nanowire inks enable paper-based printable electronics

By suspending tiny metal nanoparticles in liquids, Duke University scientists are brewing up conductive ink-jet printer “inks” to print inexpensive, customizable circuit patterns on just about any surface.

Printed electronics, which are already being used on a wide scale in devices such as the anti-theft radio frequency identification (RFID) tags you might find on the back of new DVDs, currently…

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MIT: New Institute Creates Accelerated Innovations in Nano Enabled Fibers and Fabrics

MIT: New Institute Creates Accelerated Innovations in Nano Enabled Fibers and Fabrics

Professor Yoel Fink, director of MIT’s Research Laboratory of Electronics

Photo: M. Scott Brauer

National public-private consortium led by MIT will involve manufacturers, universities, agencies, companies.

A wide range of industries are expected to benefit from these revolutionary fibers and textiles, including apparel, consumer products, automotive, medical devices, and consumer electronics.…

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