Hemp Waste Could Yield Super-Cheap Graphene

Hemp Fiber Graphene

Researchers turn agricultural waste into an affordable carbon nanomaterial for high-power supercapacitors. Read more →

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Lockheed Patents Graphene Water Desalination Filter

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The marvelous material strikes again. This time, it's going after the water crisis. Read more →

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Crude Graphene Earphones Blow The Socks Of Competition

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Even without optimization, the speaker delivers sound that is comparable or superior to performance of conventional-design commercial counterparts. Read more →

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Graphene Supercapacitors: The End Of Batteries?

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Researchers say a new technique to scale up fabrication of graphene micro-supercapacitors could have them replacing batteries, with vastly faster charging. Read more →

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EV Super-Battery Could Be Graphene’s Latest Trick

Cross section of photo-thermally reduced graphene (image via RPI)

Defect-engineered graphene, the world's thinnest material, could be used to boost the charging and discharging ability of li-ion batteries, scientists report. Read more →

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Graphene Eyed As Desalination Energy, Cost Slasher

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MIT researchers say graphene membranes in reverse osmosis desalination could be a game changer – but much work remains. Read more →

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Microbial Fuel Cell Breakthrough Could Lower Costs

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A team from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee has found a way of producing cheaper microbial fuel cells (MFCs). Read more →

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Old School Car Battery Tomorrow’s Electric Car Enhancer?

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Stanford researchers say they've found a way to enhance the original Edison nickel-iron electric car battery design such that it could be used in the EVs of today efficiently. Read more →

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We Geek Out Over Graphene Discovery

Graphene Structure

A team of researchers discovered a modified form of the material graphene with amazing thermal properties that could prevent laptops and other electronics from overheating. Read more →

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Lithium-Ion Battery Breakthrough

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Researchers at Northwestern University say they've come up with lithium-ion batteries that can hold their charge 10 times as long as current batteries. Read more →

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