An IDTechEx interview with AGM's business development manager
Claudio Marinelli, business development manager of Applied Graphene Materials, gave an interview at IDTechEx Graphene Live! where he talked about his company's process and products, his projections on the future of the graphene industry and more.
Manchester University's video on graphene composites
Graphene-enhanced guitar shown at Graphene Live!
The recent IDTechEx Graphene Live! event featured a unique graphene-enhanced guitar, made of carbon fiber with epoxy encapsulation. The guitar is presented by Perpetuus' Ian walters, who tells of a failed first attempt at making it. The second time around, the guitar was successfully made and proves to be light, strong and with excellent sound. The guitar was auctioned off with proceeds going to charity.
Manchester University's new video on graphene energy
An interesting graphene video by the University of Manchester
The University of Manchester's Graphene Department created a series of new videos that show the uses of Graphene, with an emphasis placed on graphene membranes. This is the first of the series, with more to come.
An interesting graphene overview by the Financial Times
Here's an interesting video by Financial Times, with a review on possible graphene applications, recent developments and investment opportunities.
Graphene is the perfect structure to grow GaN micro-rods for flexible devices
Researchers from Seoul National University managed to grow gallium nitride (GaN) micro-rods on a graphene sheet. This enabled them to create transferable LEDs and may enable the fabrication of bendable and stretchable devices.
The researchers say that graphene is the "perfect substrate" because it provides the desired flexibility with excellent mechanical strength, and it's also chemically and physically stable at temperatures in excess of 1,000 degrees Celsius. GaN combined with graphene substrates also shows excellent tolerance for mechanical deformation.
Graphene used to create tiny "drums" with possible memory and sensor applications
Researchers from TU Delft developed very small graphene membranes (or "drums") that can be used to detect extremely small changes in position and forces. These tiny drums have find applications as sensors, and may also be used as memory chips in a quantum computer.
The researchers refer to these membranes as tiny drums, and they actually demonstrated how you can use microwave-frequency light to play on those drums. The membranes acts as a mirror in an optomechanical cavity. The microwave photos were shot on the drums which acts like a mirror. The researchers were able to sense minute changes in the position of the graphene sheet - even a change of 17 femtometers, nearly 1/10000th of the diameter of an atom.
Graphene may enable light, elastic and conductive springs and actuators
Researchers from China's Beijing Institute of Technology developed graphene-based springs that can function as actuators. Those springs are very light and offer good thermal and electrical conductivity. They are also easy to functionalize and work in harsh conditions.
Most springs today are metal. There has been attempts to create carbon-based springs which are lightweight compared to the metal springs - but those exhibit poor elasticity. But these new graphene springs are very elastic - they can be elongated to 480% of their original size and maintain stable elasticity even after being stretched 100,000 times to 300% of their size.
A new method produces well-defined high-quality nano graphene flakes
Researchers from Spain's University of Santiago de Compostela and IBM developed an extremely simple method to make high-quality well-defined nano graphene flakes from perylene, a common organic compound.
The new method uses arynes as molecular glue to paste graphene fragments together. This results in "clover-shaped" graphene flakes that are deposited on thin insulating films. It is possible to create those nano flakes in different sizes and shapes.