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nanotimes News in Brief
12-01 :: January 2012
“A single nanostructure works great, but doesn’t mean much when applied in a real device in the real world. When you try to scale it up to macroscale proportions, the interfaces defeats what you’re trying to accom- plish, as the nanostructure’s properties are dominated by interfaces. Now we’re able to scale up graphene in a way that the interfaces are not present. This allows us to take advantage of the intrinsic properties of the nanostructure, yet work with a macroscopic structure that gives us repeatability, reliability, and robustness, but shows similar sensitivity to gas adsorbtion as a single nanostructure.”
Fazel Yavari, Zongping Chen, Abhay V. Thomas, Wencai Ren, Hui-Ming Cheng, Nikhil Koratkar: High Sensitivity Gas Detec- tion Using a Macroscopic Three-Dimensional Graphene Foam Network, In: Scientific Reports, Vol. 1, Article number: 166, November 23, 2011, DOI:10.1038/srep00166: http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/srep00166
Watch a short video of Koratkar talking about this research at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=RHVW2kCr3Iw