Graphene is superstrong and superconductive, and it has applications in everything from construction to electronics. But to date there have been almost no commercial uses of the material.
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Quantum communication has the potential to provide truly secure global communications.
Some face masks now come with a coating of graphene, a substance that can kill microbes. Is it safe to breathe it in?
Graphene based COVID tests are quick and robust.
Layering substances like graphene in new ways could help us to build quantum computers or transmit electricity over long distances.
Nanotechnology isn’t science fiction – you can find it in the latest TV screens, solar cells and tennis rackets.
Less-toxic hair dye would be a great invention. But discounting the risks that come with nanoparticles could undermine other efforts to protect human health and environmental from their effects.
New materials just one atom thick could help make graphene even more useful.
Molybdenum disulphide, hexagonal boron nitride and other materials yet to be discovered will be used to build the electronics of the future.
Touch screens are everywhere these days but the materials commonly used to make them are not that abundant. So what are the alternatives?
Something is needed to give the stalwart lithium-ion battery a boost for our increasingly power hungry mobile devices.
Who says scientists aren’t artistic? A team of researchers have done some amazing kirigami work, an ancient Japanese paper art, using graphene.
Three-dimensional images you can see without special glasses have been created with a clever user of lasers and graphene.
There is much excitement about graphene, a material only a single carbon-atom thick, but finding ways to do something with it that’s affordable have always been a challenge.
We all know engineering is useful, functional, even ingenious. But the engineering photography competition we hold each year provides us a chance to wander outside its merely utilitarian aspects into dimensions…
Graphene – an atom-thick sheet of carbon – has been touted as a new wonder material: it is stronger than steel and conducts electricity better than copper. In the journal Nature Nanotechnology today, my…
Samsung has had a mixed relationship with wearable technology to date but an announcement this week may put it ahead of the crowd. The South Korean firm made an early bid on the market with smartwatches…
Every year thousands of people are fitted with artificial heart valves to replace their own malfunctioning valve. Many of these patients, however, have to remain on drugs that stop blood clotting on these…
Australian industries have reached a turning point. With old industries on the way out, the Australian manufacturing sector’s biggest challenge is to move from a low-cost mass production model to one that…
The proposal of an ultra-thin condom made from graphene and latex brings design of the contraceptive into the 21st century. We have yet to see a prototype, but the developers at the University of Manchester…
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Postdoctoral research associate, University of Oxford
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Associate Professor, Materials Engineering, Monash University
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Researcher, NanoCarbons & Soft Materials Laboratory, Monash University
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Research Fellow, The University of Melbourne
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Executive Director of the ARC Centre of Excellence for Electromaterials Science and Director of the Intelligent Polymer Research Institute, University of Wollongong
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Professor of Science Communication and Chemistry, University of Hull
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Associate Deputy Vice-Chancellor for Research Innovation and Entrepreneurship, RMIT University
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PhD candidate in Materials Engineering, Monash University
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Senior Research Fellow, Glasgow Caledonian University
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Professor of Organic Chemistry, ARC Centre of Excellence for Electromaterials Science and Intelligent Polymer Research Institute, University of Wollongong
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Doctoral Researcher, School of Health and Life Sciences, Glasgow Caledonian University
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Professor of Advanced Technology Transitions, Arizona State University
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Professor of Physics, Monash University
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Research Fellow, University of Sydney
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Reader in Engineering, University of Cambridge
