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ALBANY, New York, September 11, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- SalisOnline.org adds new report "Most-Needed Chemicals for New Disruptive Electronics and Electrics" to their premium market research reports database. To know more about this report, visit http://www.salisonline.org/study/most-needed-chemicals-for-new-disruptive-electronics-and-electrics.asp Report Summary The chemistry of the new electronics and electrics is key to its future, whether it is invisible,...

DALLAS, September 10, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Graphene is a hot topic. It promises to offer the best possible material properties in almost all applications. Its extraordinary performance has led many to call it the 'superlative' or 'wonder' material. The reality however is different and it is important to diligently separate hype from reality using detailed understanding of the graphene technology and industry. ReportsnReports.com offers two research reports on the Graphene...

Rice University lab's nanoreactor theory could advance quality of material's growth Like tiny ships finding port in a storm, carbon atoms dock with the greater island of graphene in a predictable manner. But until recent research by scientists at Rice University, nobody had the tools to make that kind of prediction. Electric current shoots straight across a sheet of defect-free graphene with almost no resistance, a feature that makes the material highly attractive to engineers who would...

Connie K. Ho for redOrbit.com – Your Universe Online Researchers from Purdue University recently announced that they have developed a new type of biosensor for diabetes testing that detects glucose in saliva, tears, and urine that can be produced at a low cost and doesn’t need many manufacturing steps to create. "It's an inherently non-invasive way to estimate glucose content in the body," explained Jonathan Claussen, a former Purdue University doctoral student who currently works...

Lee Rannals for redOrbit.com – Your Universe Online MIT scientists say a new two-dimensional material may be able to open up a plethora of future applications. Reporting in the journal Nano Letters published online this month, researchers say they have already succeeded in making a variety of electronic components out of a new material similar to the one-atom graphene, molybdenum disulfide (MoS2), Tomás Palacios, the Emmanuel E. Landsman Associate Professor of EECS and a...

April Flowers for redOrbit.com - Your Universe Online A new form of very hard carbon clusters capable of indenting diamond has been observed by a team of Carnegie Institution for Science researchers. The carbon clusters are unusual in their mix of crystalline and disordered structures and have potential applications for a range of mechanical, electronic, and electrochemical uses. The team, led by Lin Wang, published their findings in the August 17, 2012, issue of Science. Carbon...

FARMINGTON, Conn., Aug. 6, 2012 /PRNewswire-iReach/ -- New research estimates that worldwide production of nanomaterials increased tenfold to over 270,000 tons between 2002 and 2011. Nanomaterials are sophisticated molecules embedded in thousands of products. Despite potential risks and growing awareness about the safety of nanoparticles ranging from respiratory health to potential impacts on the food chain, the field continues growing at an incredible rate. Nanotechnology applications are...

Direct Imaging by Berkeley Lab Researchers Confirms the Importance of Electron-Electron Interactions in Graphene Perhaps no other material is generating as much excitement in the electronics world as graphene, sheets of pure carbon just one atom thick through which electrons can race at nearly the speed of light – 100 times faster than they move through silicon. Superthin, superstrong, superflexible and superfast as an electrical conductor, graphene has been touted as a potential wonder...

Sandwiching individual graphene sheets between insulating layers in order to produce electrical devices with unique new properties, the method could open up a new dimension of physics research. Writing in Nature Materials, the scientists show that a new side-view imaging technique can be used to visualize the individual atomic layers of graphene within the devices they have built. They found that the structures were almost perfect even when more than 10 different layers were used to build...

Columbia Engineering pioneers ultralow-power optical information processing and frequency generation in graphene-silicon photonic circuits New research by Columbia Engineering demonstrates remarkable optical nonlinear behavior of graphene that may lead to broad applications in optical interconnects and low-power photonic integrated circuits. With the placement of a sheet of graphene just one-carbon-atom-thick, the researchers transformed the originally passive device into an active one...