A surge in research into the novel material graphene reveals an intensifying global contest to lead a potential industrial revolution. Latest figures show a sharp rise in patents filed to claim rights over different aspects of graphene since 2007, with a further spike last year. China leads the field as the country with the most [...]
An IBM team in Zurich has published single-molecule images so detailed that the type of atomic bonds between their atoms can be discerned. The same pioneering team took the first-ever single-molecule image in 2009 and more recently published images of a molecule shaped like the Olympic rings. The new work opens up the prospect of [...]
A new report in Science journal gives details on how carbon-based material graphene can help scientists study liquids more clearly with high-power microscopes. Graphene can form a clear “window” to see liquids at higher resolution than was previously possible using transmission electron microscopes. Liquids had been difficult to view at the same resolution as solids [...]
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