May 26, 2015 by News Staff

A group of scientists from Finland has conducted computer simulations that predict the existence of an atomically thin, free-standing 2D liquid phase. Atomically...

Mar 27, 2015 by News Staff

When water is confined at high pressure between sheets of graphene its molecules adopt a square configuration, says a team of physicists from the University...

Mar 18, 2015 by News Staff

A group of scientists headed by Dr Franz Geiger of Northwestern University has found that slightly imperfect graphene shuttles protons, and only protons,...

Feb 5, 2015 by News Staff

An international team of scientists, led by Prof Puru Jena of Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, has discovered a new structural variant of...

Sep 10, 2014 by News Staff

A team of scientists from Spain, Germany and France has managed to synthesize graphene’s cousin – an atom-thin, ordered, two-dimensional material...

Oct 10, 2013 by News Staff

According to scientists at Rice University, a material called carbyne will be the strongest material if and when anyone can make it in bulk. Nanorods or...

Mar 15, 2013 by Natali Anderson

Scientists from Singapore and Belgium have successfully altered the properties of water, making it corrosive enough to etch diamonds. Diamond particles...

Aug 12, 2011 by News Staff

A team of astronomers, using the Spitzer Space Telescope, has reported the first extragalactic detection of the C70 fullerene molecule, and the possible...