graphene
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Pouring Saltwater Over Graphene Generates Electricity
A team of Chinese scientists did an impossible-sounding thing. They created electricity simply by dragging a droplet of saltwater across a layer of graphene. No big fires, no greenhouse gases, no fuss. They created energy with just a miracle material and one of the most plentiful substances on Earth.
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World’s Thinnest LED Is Only Three Atoms Thick
LEDs have come a long ways. From the early ’70s when a bulky LED watch cost thousands of dollars to LG’s announcement last month that it had created an OLED TV as thin as a magazine, these glowing little bits of magic have become wonderfully cheap and impossibly small. But guess what: they’re about to…
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Graphene’s Newest Trick Is Fighting Deadly Blood Clots
Man, graphene is shaping up to be a real wonder-material (if it can make it out of the lab and into the real world). Chalk up another future use: a coating that eliminates blood clotting in medical devices by kickstarting the body’s natural clot-fighting mechanism that lasts way longer than anti-clotting drugs. Cool!
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Scientists Develop 3D Quantum Matter That Performs Like Graphene
As two-dimensional graphene has become one of the most lusted-after materials in science, many have wondered if there might be a 3D counterpart that we could actually build things with. A team of scientists at the Berkeley Lab just offered an affirmative answer. Well, almost.