Researchers Control Graphene Nanostructure Processing

Kansas State University researchers say they developed a process to better control the mass production of graphene nanostructures, which could make them less expensive and makes graphene’s electrical properties easier to apply across multiple applications including electronics, solar cells, and optoelectronics. Typical manufacturing processes can’t produce large quantities of graphene nanostructures in different, controlled sizes and shapes. The researchers solve this by using a diamond knife to controllably carve graphite into nanoblocks that, when exfoliated, result in sheets of carbon atoms. They published their work in Nature Communications. (EurekAlert)(Nature Communications)