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Graphene gets spintronics

News: Nanotechnology    April 19, 2011
The basis of microelectronics is the manipulation of charged electrons. The basis of spintronics is the conversion of electricity to magnetism and vice versa in order to manipulate the spin of electrons. Both approaches can produce transistors and other elements used in electronics (computers et al), but spintronics has advantages: Unlike the charge of electrons, [...]
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Graphene finds mass appeal

Impact: Nanotechnology    October 25, 2010
Thanks to the 2010 Nobel Prize for physics, graphene is a hot topic. That doesn’t mean it’s a household word. Graphene is not like pencil lead, which most people know is graphite. (That may hold for another generation or two, pencils are disappearing into tiny niches.) Yet graphene is graphite. Same stuff, pure carbon, just [...]
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Graphene oxide: Nanotechnology with an eco-friendly end

Impact: Nanotechnology    July 23, 2010
It isn’t often (like almost never) that a new technology with potential impact on the environment comes with its own natural solution. According to two papers published by scientists from Rice University (Texas, USA), this is the case with graphene oxide. Graphene, a form of carbon, can be simply described as a form of graphite [...]
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