Boron Nitride Archives – The Green Optimistic green tech news, since 2008 Mon, 07 Mar 2011 20:00:51 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 2667534 New Substrate for Graphene Could Finally Make It Useful and Electronics Greener https://www.greenoptimistic.com/graphene-boron-nitride-substrate-20110307/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/graphene-boron-nitride-substrate-20110307/#respond Mon, 07 Mar 2011 20:00:51 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=17431 Graphene has lately been the electronic industry's spoiled kid - everybody wants to have a piece of the research, but few have the tools and inspiration to find something new. A team of researchers from the University of Arizona have found a material that can play the role of an insulator for the one atom-thick graphene layer. The team published their study in Nature Materials.

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]]> https://www.greenoptimistic.com/graphene-boron-nitride-substrate-20110307/feed/ 0 17431 Ultrasound Technology Used to Fabricate Future's Best Thermoelectric Materials https://www.greenoptimistic.com/ultrasound-thermoelectric-crann-20110204/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/ultrasound-thermoelectric-crann-20110204/#respond Fri, 04 Feb 2011 15:54:22 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=17003 By using a technology that is normally suited to cleaning jewelery, with common solvents, ultrasounds, and 1 milligram of layered material (such as graphite), Dr. Valeria Nicolosi, the collaborator from the University of Oxford says they can make "billions and billions of one-atom-thick nanosheets can be made at the same time from a wide variety of exotic layered materials."

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