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NanoFonc – Découvrez la vidéo de présentation

NanoFonc – Découvrez la vidéo de présentation

NanoFonc est un consortium soutenu par la région Pays de la Loire dans son appel à projets 2009, volet « émergence collective », qui regroupe 9 laboratoires régionaux et 3 laboratoires bretons. Découvrez la vidéo de présentation! (rubrique « Documents accessibles à tous« )       NanoFonc vise à faire reconnaître nos activités et nos compétences dans l’élaboration [...]

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Post-Doctoral fellowship

Post-Doctoral fellowship

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Ray Baughman creates artificial muscles

Ray Baughman creates artificial muscles

Ray Baughman creates artificial muscles, by Jorge Salazar (EarthSky // Interviews // Human World, March 2012) Baughman’s lab creates tiny artificial muscles. They spin carbon nanotubes into yarn stronger than steel yet so light it almost floats in air. Nature has been developing her technologies for many hundreds of millions of years, said Ray Baughman. [...]

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Mass production of high quality graphene: An analysis of worldwide patents

Mass production of high quality graphene: An analysis of worldwide patents

Mass production of high quality graphene: An analysis of worldwide patents [Read Full article] (Nanowerk Spotlight) Graphene is undoubtedly emerging as the most promising nanomaterial because of its unique combination of superb properties, which opens a way for its exploitation in a wide spectrum of applications. However, it has to overcome a number of obstacles [...]

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Making graphene ‘bread’ (…)

Making graphene ‘bread’ (…)

Making graphene ‘bread’ – leavening technique results in freestanding graphene oxide films (Nanowerk Spotlight)  Integration of graphene sheets and its functional derivatives  into three-dimensional (3D) macroscopic structures is drawing  much attention since it is an essential step to explore  the advanced properties of individual graphene sheets for  practical applications, such as chemical filters and electrodes  [...]

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Sony Makes 100m-long Graphene With Roll-to-roll Method

Sony Makes 100m-long Graphene With Roll-to-roll Method

Aug 28, 2012 19:14 Tetsuo Nozawa, Nikkei Electronics. Sony Corp developed a machine that produces graphene, which is two-dimensionally connected carbon atoms, by using a roll-to-roll method and made a graphene sheet with a width of 23cm and a length of 100m. It is the largest area of graphene sheet in the world. Sony will [...]

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A Nose in Your Clothes  (Peratech )

A Nose in Your Clothes (Peratech )

Peratech thinks printable electronic sensors of volatile compounds could find their way into textiles. Thin nose: Peratech’s VOC-sensing film (the small round gray area on right side of this testing equipment) could be integrated into clothing or onto paper. Peratech A U.K. company says its highly pressure-sensitive material could be used to integrate an « electronic [...]

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One researcher’s impressions of Graphene 2012

One researcher’s impressions of Graphene 2012

Many conferences on graphene have been held this calendar year and I myself have attended quite a few of them. For me, Graphene 2012—held in Brussels on April 10–13—was in some ways similar to many of these other conferences, and in other ways it was a distinctive conference. [Read more] Mildred S. Dresselhaus (2012). One [...]

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Skin-like, transparent sensors can stretch to twice their original size

Skin-like, transparent sensors can stretch to twice their original size

Nature Nanotechnology | Published: 02 November 2011 Transparent, elastic films containing carbon nanotubes can use changes in capacitance to act as pressure and strain sensors, according to research carried out by Zhenan Bao and her colleagues at Stanford University. The films have a skin-like elasticity that allows them to be stretched to twice their normal [...]

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Tiny bubbles snap carbon nanotubes like twigs…

Tiny bubbles snap carbon nanotubes like twigs…

“If the nanotube is short, one end will get drawn down by the collapsing bubble so that the nanotube is aligned toward the center of the bubble. In this case, the tube doesn’t bend, but rather stretches. This behavior had been previously predicted, but we also found that long nanotubes did something unexpected. The model [...]

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