Researchers take an ordinary white button mushroom and supercharge it with clusters of tightly-packed cyanobacteria and swirls of graphene nanoribbons to make electricity In their latest fea... Read more
Rice University scientists turn unzipped nanotubes into possible alternative for platinum Graphene nanoribbons formed into a three-dimensional aerogel and enhanced with boron and nitrogen ar... Read more
Rice University mix of graphene nanoribbons, polymer has potential for cars, soda, beer A discovery at Rice University aims to make vehicles that run on compressed natural gas more practical... Read more
Tiny nanoribbons of carbon could be used to make a magnetic field sensor for novel electronic devices Researchers in Singapore have designed an electronic switch that responds to changes in... Read more
Graphene has been highly touted as a revolutionary material for nanoscale electronics. Bucking planarity, contorted sheets of graphene alter physical, optical and electronic properties of ne... Read more
Frustration led to revelation when Rice University scientists determined how graphene might be made useful for high-capacity batteries. Calculations by the Rice lab of theoretical physicist... Read more
As far back as the 1990s, long before anyone had actually isolated graphene — a honeycomb lattice of carbon just one atom thick — theorists were predicting extraordinary p... Read more