Graphenea, in collaboration with industrial and academic partners (Infineon Technologies, WITec, RWTH Aachen University and Simune Atomistics), announced the successful completion of project NanoGraM that focused on nano/microelectromechanical (NEMS/MEMS) devices based on graphene. The project focused on three specific device concepts for potential future products: graphene microphones, graphene-membrane pressure sensors and graphene-membrane Hall sensors.

The target markets for these devices include portable electronics (smartphones, laptops), automotive, industrial, and smart homes, among others.

Versarien reports it has signed an agreement with U.S-based firm AECOM, a Fortune 500 company, to explore the potential of its graphene-based Nanene in construction. AECOM is involved in various construction projects from planning new cities and building skyscrapers to "repairing damaged environments."

AECOM "will initially be working on a project involving the incorporation of Versarien's proprietary Nanene few layer graphene nano-platelets into large-scale polymer structures used in civil infrastructure projects, with a view to increasing their structural strength".

In January 2017 the world's lightest mechanical chronograph watch was unveiled in Geneva, Switzerland, made with an innovative graphene-enhanced composite material. Now, the research behind the project has been published. The unique watch was a result of a collaboration between the University of Manchester, Richard Mille Watches and McLaren Applied Technologies.

The RM 50-03 watch was made using a unique composite incorporating graphene to create a strong but lightweight case that contains the watch mechanism, which weighed around 40 grams in total, including the strap. The collaboration explored the methods of correctly aligning graphene within a composite to make the most of the material's superlative properties of mechanical stiffness and strength whilst negating the need for the addition of other, weightier materials.

NIST physicists have spatially and magnetically confined electrons within graphene atoms into cake-like nanostructures, proving theoretical speculations, and promising applications for quantum computing. It was said that the experiment confirms how electrons interact in a tightly confined space according to long-untested rules of quantum mechanics. The findings could also have practical applications in quantum computing".

Scientists have to confine quantum dots in space to work with them, but the NIST researchers thought of applying a magnetic field to see how electrons orbiting quantum dots would behave. Using a scanning tunneling microscope, the team found that electrons packed together more and arranged themselves into concentric rings that alternate between conducting and insulating energy levels, shaped like a tiered cake.

3D Metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) are an important class of materials that could be used in applications as diverse as sensing, gas storage, catalysis and optoelectronics. Their 2D versions might even be used as flexible material platforms to realize exotic quantum phases, such as topological and anomalous quantum Hall insulators.

Such 2D sheets are usually synthesized on metal substrates, and a major problem is that the strong interactions between the two materials mask the intrinsic electronic properties of the MOF itself. Now, researchers at Aalto University in Finland say they have overcome this problem by fabricating MOFs on graphene, which only weakly interacts with them. The resulting 2D honeycombed frameworks could be used to make MOF-based designer materials with complex, tuneable electronic structures.

Graphite India's wholly owned subsidiary in the Netherlands, Graphite International BV, has signed an agreement for investment of up to US $18.595 million in multiple tranches in cash in General Graphene Corporation which would constitute approximately 46% stake in the Company.

General Graphene is involved in the development of Graphene sheets for commercial applications. The investment will be made in multiple tranches based on achievement of agreed milestones in the process of development and establishing manufacturing capabilities for the commercial production of Graphene sheets.