How Nanomaterials Are Extending Food Shelf Life

How Nanomaterials Are Extending Food Shelf Life

Most of us can identify with the feeling of purchasing food at the grocery store and forgetting to eat it until it was too late. Unfortunately, forgetting food leads to an enormous amount of food waste, creating higher costs for companies, consumers and the...
Graphene For Smartphone Applications

Graphene For Smartphone Applications

For anyone not familiar with the highly advanced material known as graphene, it is the first two-dimensional substance that mankind has ever had the pleasure of working with. As anyone with a physics background can point out, most earthly materials have a 3D...
Graphene-Coated Solar Panels Convert Rain Into Energy

Graphene-Coated Solar Panels Convert Rain Into Energy

From 2010-15, the cost of installing solar panels, for both large-scale utilities as well as residential properties, dropped by over 50%. Further, solar generation prices fell in tandem with this trend, to as little as 3 cents per kilowatt-hour, leading experts to...
Graphene Watch is World’s Lightest Mechanical Timepiece

Graphene Watch is World’s Lightest Mechanical Timepiece

Want to have a fly timepiece on your wrist without feeling weighed down? This could be a distinct possibility soon thanks to a recent graphene-related innovation. Though seemingly inconsequential, the implications for style, comfort, and function are extraordinary....
Monthly Recap: Graphene in the News

Monthly Recap: Graphene in the News

In his fascinating profile of the scientific minds behind graphene, John Colapino, writing for The New Yorker, concludes that despite its many advantages, the hype surrounding graphene is disproportionate to its actual uses. Two years later, breakneck innovation at...