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A novel x-ray transmission window based on graphenic carbon has been developed with superior performance compared to beryllium transmission windows that are currently used in the field. Graphenic carbon in combination with an integrated…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-03-12 Sebastian Huebner , Natsuki Miyakawa , Stefan Kapser , Andreas Pahlke , Franz Kreupl

The electronic properties of a graphene sheet with attached hydrogen atoms is studied using a modified Falicov-Kimball model on the honeycomb lattice. It is shown that in the ground state this system separates into two phases: fully…

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The shift from fossil fuels to renewable energy sources is essential for reducing global carbon emissions and addressing climate change. Developing advanced materials for efficient hydrogen storage enables sustainable energy solutions in…

Graphene oxide (GO), the functionalized graphene with oxygenated groups (mainly epoxy and hydroxyl), has attracted resurgent interests in the past decade owing to its large surface area, superior physical and chemical properties, and easy…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-01-14 Xiaoming Huang , Lizhao Liu , Si Zhou , Jijun Zhao

We study the electronic band structure of three-dimensional ABC-stacked (rhombohedral) graphdiyne, which is a new planar carbon allotrope recently fabricated. Using the first-principles calculation, we show that the system is a nodal-line…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-05-23 Takafumi Nomura , Tetsuro Habe , Ryota Sakamoto , Mikito Koshino

Exciton bound states in solids between electrons and holes are predicted to form a superfluid at high temperatures. We show that by employing atomically thin crystals such as a pair of adjacent bilayer graphene sheets, equilibrium…

Superconductivity · Physics 2013-05-09 Andrea Perali , David Neilson , Alex R. Hamilton

The layers of graphene oxide (GO) are found to be good for permeation of water but not for helium (Science 2012 335 (6067): 442-444) suggesting that the GO layers are dynamic in the formation of permeation route depending on the environment…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-10-01 Nallani Raghav , Sudip Chakraborty , Prabal K. Maiti

Graphene is a sturdy and chemically inert material exhibiting an exposed two-dimensional electron gas of high mobility. These combined properties enable the design of graphene composites either based on covalent or non- covalent coupling of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-03-19 Adrien Allain , Zheng Han , Vincent Bouchiat

In the past decade graphene has been one of the most studied material for several unique and excellent properties. Due to its two dimensional nature, physical and chemical properties and ease of manipulation, graphene offers the possibility…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-01-05 Antonio Di Bartolomeo

The prospects of application of graphene and related structures as the membrane mimetic materials, capable of reproducing several biomembrane functions up to the certain limit, are analyzed in the series of our papers. This paper considers…

Subcellular Processes · Quantitative Biology 2018-07-27 Oleg V. Gradov , Margaret A. Gradova

Plasmonics can be used to improve absorption in optoelectronic devices and has been intensively studied for solar cells and photodetectors. Graphene has recently emerged as a powerful plasmonic material. It shows significantly less losses…

Optics · Physics 2015-05-13 Jianfa Zhang , Zhihong Zhu , Wei Liu , Xiaodong Yuan , Shiqiao Qin

The electronic quality of two-dimensional systems is crucial when exploring quantum transport phenomena. In semiconductor heterostructures, decades of optimization have yielded record-quality two-dimensional gases with transport and quantum…

Graphene is a wonder material with many superlatives to its name. It is the thinnest material in the universe and the strongest ever measured. Its charge carriers exhibit giant intrinsic mobility, have the smallest effective mass (it is…

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A novel concept of membrane process in thermal-driven system is proposed for water desalination. By means of molecular dynamics simulations, we show fast water transport through graphene galleries at a temperature gradient. Water molecules…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2018-10-29 Bo Chen , Haifeng Jiang , Huidong Liu , Kang Liu , Xiang Liu , Xuejiao Hu

Graphene has recently been shown to be permeable to thermal protons, the nuclei of hydrogen atoms, which sparked interest in its use as a proton-conducting membrane in relevant technologies. However, the influence of light on proton…

Quantum phenomena are relevant to the transport of light atoms and molecules through nanoporous two-dimensional (2D) membranes. Indeed, confinement provided by (sub-)nanometer pores enhances quantum effects such as tunneling and zero point…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-10-09 Alfonso Gijón , José Campos-Martínez , Marta I. Hernández

We predict the stability of a new extended two-dimensional hydrocarbon on the basis of first-principles total energy calculations. The compound that we call graphane is a fully saturated hydrocarbon derived from a single graphene sheet with…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-05-23 Jorge O. Sofo , Ajay S. Chaudhari , Greg D. Barber

Graphene consists of single or few layers of crystalline ordered carbon atoms. Its visibility on oxidized silicon (Si/SiO\_2) enabled its discovery and spawned numerous studies of its unique electronic properties. The combination of…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-10-26 M. Friedemann , K. Pierz , R. Stosch , F. J. Ahlers

Graphene is a 2D material that displays excellent electronic transport properties with prospective applications in many fields. Inducing and controlling magnetism in the graphene layer, for instance by proximity of magnetic materials, may…

Successful ways of fully exploiting the excellent structural and multifunctional performance of graphene and related materials are of great scientific and technological interest. New opportunities are provided by the fabrication of a novel…