Electronics.ca published a new market research report in which they forecast that graphene-based product sales will reach $67 million in 2015 and $675 million in 2020. The compound annual growth rate (CAGR) between 2015 and 2020 will be 58.7%.
Here's how they see the market share of different graphene applications:
* Capacitors: growing from $26 million in 2015 to $340 in 2020
* Structured materials: $17.5 million in 2015 and $91 million in 2020.
* The display market:…
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Dear All,
we have uploaded to our homepage
http://www.nanotechnology.hu L. P. Biro's talk given at the EuroNanoForum 2011 Budapest conference, entitled
Graphene: the route from touch screens to digital nanoelectronics
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NIST researchers say that defects in Graphene may appear due to the movement of the carbon atoms at high temperatures when producing graphene by heating silicon carbide under ultrahigh vacuum. Graphene tend to rearrange from six-sided rings to five or seven atoms. Stringing five and seven member rings together in closed loops creates a new type of defect or grain boundary loop in the honeycomb lattice.
These defects might allow it a little flexibility, making Graphene even more…
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Researchers from the University of California, Berkeley built an optical modulator (switches light on and off) using Graphene. This is the basis of network modulators (which use light to transmit data). The graphene based modulator is the world's smallest and fastest - which could help create faster communication devices. In fact Graphene can be used to create modulators that are up to ten times faster than any current technology based modulators.…
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Researhcers from the University of Technology in Sydney, Australia, developed a new material called Graphene paper (GP), made from Graphite which is lighter, stronger, harder and more flexible than steel. It's also eco-friendly and recyclable. The new material is thinner than paper and ten times stronger than steel. The researchers say that the new material can be used in the automotive and aviation industries - to create lighter planes and cars which will be require less fuel, and yet be even…
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Added by TINC on April 24, 2011 at 6:13pm —
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Researchers from IBM developed a graphene transistor with a record cut-off frequency of 155 Ghz and the shortest gate length ever (just 40nm). They used a diamond-like carbon as the top layer of the substrate on which the Graphene is deposited. This material is a great substrate for Graphene. It's a& non-polar dielectric material - so it does not 'trap' or scatter charges, doesn't absorb a lot of wayer and has excellent thermal conductivity. It's also cheap to make and widely used today in…
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Researchers from the University of Illinois discovered that graphene transistors have a nanoscale cooling effect that reduces their temperature. This means that graphene-based electronics could require very little cooling (or none at all):
http://www.graphene-info.com/graphene-transistors-are-self-cooling
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Researchers from the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) say that Graphene can be used to create bendable rechargeable batteries.
This battery actually has promising performance compared to non-flexible batteries - higher energy density, power density and better cycle life. The team now works on extending the performance using solid-state or polymer electrolyte. They also believe that this technology can be used not just in batteries but also in solar cells,…
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Oxford Nanopore has reached an agreement with Harvard University to develop technology that uses graphene for DNA and RNA sequencing. This technology was developed in Harvard laboratories and Oxford Nanopore now has exclusive rights to develop and commercialize it. This is great news and hopefully will bring this technology to market soon:…
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Researchers from the A*STAR Institute of Materials Research and Engineering and the National University of Singapore have developed an improved design for a Graphene based field-effect transistor (FET). The new device includes an additional silicon dioxide (SiO2) dielectric gate below the graphene layer. This allows for simplified bit writing by providing an additional background source of charge carriers and paves the way towards nonvolatile Graphene-based memory…
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Researchers from the US DOE's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) and Princeton University found a way to combine Graphene and indium tin oxide (ITO) nanoparticles to create cheaper and more durable fuel cells:
http://www.graphene-info.com/graphene-and-ito-can-be-combined-make-cheaper-and-more-durable-fuel-cells
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Researchers from Vanderbilt University (Nashville, Tennessee) have developed a way to create a film of Graphene Oxide so it either causes water to bead up and 'run off' or alternatively be spread out in a thin layer. As graphene sheets are transparent, you can put this on your car's windshield and the water will shed so quickly that you won't need wipers. Or you can use it to make ships glide through water very efficiently. Or use it to make water repellent clothes or self cleaning…
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Vorbeck Materials and Targray Technology is introducing Vor-Charge: a Graphene-based Composite Anode Material for Li-ion battery cells. The companies say that Vor-Charge can significantly increase batteries cycle life and enable faster recharge rates:
http://www.graphene-info.com/vorbeck-and-targray-introduces-new-graphene-based-li-ion-materials
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Theory has predicted rich and very distinct physics for graphene nanodevices with boundaries that follow either the armchair or the zigzag crystallographic directions. We have demonstrated that hexagonal
holes obtained by anisotropic etching of graphene are bounded
predominantly by zigzag edges which do not contribute to the D peak in
Raman spectroscopy.
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In October the Nobel Prize for Physics was awarded to two researchers from Manchester University for their work on Graphene. But if, like much of the world, you’re left wondering just what graphene is, and why it deserves a Nobel Prize, then help is at hand.
NanoTP” has produced two short videos explaining graphene and its amazing properties. The videos are written and…
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Added by TINC on December 20, 2010 at 7:53am —
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Researchers from Nanotek Instruments have developed a new graphene-based supercapacitor that can store as much energy as NiMH batteries, but charge and discharge in minutes or
even seconds. The new device has a specific energy density of
85.6 Wh/kg at room temperature and 136 Wh/kg at 80 °C. These are the
highest ever values for "electric double layer" supercapacitors based on
carbon nanomaterials.…
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Researchers from the Nankai University in china have developed a new drug delivery system that uses Graphene Oxide as the drug carrier. Graphene oxide has a very high surface area, enabling it to transport a
large amount of the drug.…

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Added by TINC on November 21, 2010 at 8:18am —
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Noble Prize laureate Konstantin Novoselov says that making Graphene is easy: all you need is a mobile phone, Graphite from a pencil and a
scotch tape. You stick the tape to the Graphite and transfer it to a
solid substrate, the mobile phone's screen in that case. He also says
that Drinking Vodka can help as it can degrease the surface.…
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Added by TINC on November 3, 2010 at 7:29am —
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NetComposites says that adding Graphene to the polymer in Thermoplastics can improve its mechanical, electrical, thermal and barrier properties. They predict that just 1% by volume of graphene nano
platelets could yield a tensile modulus increase of 95% over an
unfilled polymer.
The company is bringing together a European partnership to develop this technology in several application areas, such as electronics, lighting, packaging and structural…
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