by Don Basile | Feb 23, 2016 | Graphene, Technology
The wonder material graphene has recently led to another exciting scientific breakthrough, this time involving the building blocks of life. Whereas the process of reading DNA has so far been a laborious, expensive, and time consuming chemical process, a new...
by Don Basile | Feb 22, 2016 | Graphene, Technology
Nanoparticles are so small that they remain undetected by the human eye, but we interact with them in the products we use everyday. From cosmetics to sunscreen to plastics, we’ve become heavily reliant on these tiny particles to strengthen and prolong the shelf life...
by Don Basile | Nov 25, 2015 | Digital, Graphene, Technology
Graphene is an amazingly strong, thin, and versatile “wonder material” that has led to over 25,000 patents since its creation in 2003. Praised by scientists for being a single layer of graphite atoms with amazing strength and conductivity, investors are just as...
by Don Basile | Aug 26, 2015 | Graphene, Technology
The wonder material graphene has recently tackled another dimension and found another exciting application for the future of technology. If your phone has ever overheated on a hot day, you’re going to want to read this. Hexagonal boron nitride (h-BN), a similar...
by Don Basile | Jul 9, 2015 | Graphene, Technology
A group of scientists from the U.S. and South Korea recently published that they have demonstrated an on-chip visible light using graphene–a first of its kind. The group, led by postdoctoral research scientist Young Duck Kim, connected small graphene strips to...