More than a century before graphene was isolated in a modern lab, Thomas Edison may have been unknowingly making the wonder material inside his early light bulbs. New experiments suggest that the ...

Graphene has long been hailed as a "wonder material." It is incredibly strong, highly conductive and almost impossibly thin—just one atom thick. These properties make it a promising candidate for next ...

Gas sensors are essential for personal safety and environmental monitoring, but traditional sensors have limitations in sensitivity and energy efficiency. Now, researchers have developed an improved ...

Transparent electrodes transmit light while conducting electricity and are increasingly important in bioelectronic and ...

One of the discoveries that fundamentally distinguished the emerging field of quantum physics from classical physics was the ...

McGill University engineers have developed ultra-thin materials that can move, fold, and reshape themselves, ...

The BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award in Basic Sciences has gone in this eighteenth edition to physicists Allan MacDonald (The University of Texas at Austin) and Pablo ...

Vertical graphene microstructures break the thickness-performance tradeoff in thermoacoustic speakers, enabling flexible ...

Researchers in the US have uncovered evidence suggesting that Thomas Edison may have accidentally ...

The number of graphene layers determines specific properties. Both single-layer and bi-layer graphenes are zero band gap semiconductors because of the association between conduction and the valance ...