How to create selective holes in graphene
New technique developed at MIT produces highly selective filter materials, could lead to more efficient desalination.
New technique developed at MIT produces highly selective filter materials, could lead to more efficient desalination.
New approach to use of 2-D carbon material opens up unexpected properties, could unleash new uses.
MIT team develops simple, inexpensive method that could help realize material’s promise for electronics, solar power, and sensors.
Researchers show that graphene — atom-thick sheets of carbon — could be used in photodetectors, devices that translate optical signals to electrical.
Tomás Palacios investigates use of ‘extreme materials’ in electronics, which could reduce energy consumption and make computers far faster.
Atom-thick photovoltaic sheets could pack hundreds of times more power per weight than conventional solar cells.
New system uses two-dimensional structures to guide plasmonic waves at ultrashort wavelength, offering a new platform for memory and computer chips.
MIT graduate student David Cohen-Tanugi works to improve water filtration, desalination.
New experiments reveal previously unseen effects, could lead to new kinds of electronics and optical devices.
Folded DNA templates allow researchers to precisely cut out graphene shapes, which could be used in electronic circuits.
Researchers observe a basic quantum-mechanical phenomenon theorized decades ago by pioneers of atomic theory.
Magazine ranks nanoporous graphene as one of the top five surprising scientific milestones of 2012.
MIT researchers find that adding a coating of graphene has little effect on how a surface interacts with liquids — except in extreme cases.
New membranes may filter water or separate biological samples.
MIT researchers produce complex electronic circuits from molybdenum disulfide, a material that could have many more applications.