Constructing integrated graphene-based artificial nacre

Over billions of years, intricately structured, high-performance natural materials, such as nacre (also known as mother of pearl), have evolved. Nacre has several properties that have been a source of inspiration for biomimetic materials: (a) a “brick and mortar” layered architecture alternatively packed with 95 vol % of two-dimensional (2D) aragonite...

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Cage-opening fullerene provide fluorescent graphene quantum dots

New work by an international research team has demonstrated the simultaneous oxidation and cage-opening of fullerene C60 to provide graphene quantum dots. Reporting their findings in ("Synthesis of Strongly Fluorescent Graphene Quantum Dots by Cage-Opening Buckminsterfullerene"), the team synthesized graphene quantum dots (QDs) by treating fullerene...

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API and NINT to keynote 2015 Nanotechnology for Renewable Nanomaterials conference

TAPPI announced that Dr. Theodora Retsina, CEO of American Process, Inc. (API) and Dr. Maria D’lorio, Executive Director of the National Institute for Nanotechnology (NINT) and Professor of Physics and Assistant Vice President of Research at the University of Alberta, will be keynote speakers at the...

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