The ordinary graphite in pencil lead is proving to be surprisingly multifaceted at the microscale. In a study published in ...

A plastic bottle tossed into a recycling bin could one day help power an electric vehicle, smartphone or renewable energy ...

That empty plastic water bottle sitting in your recycling bin might have a second life ahead of it, one that involves ...

HydroGraph makes some of the purest, most consistent graphene on the planet, making it a good bet on the material. Learn why ...

Description: Engineers have long dreamed of creating a wonderful material that can revolutionize construction. In 2004, their ...

Researchers in Sweden report a green alternative to reduce reliance on mining graphite, the raw source behind the "wonder material" graphene. In the journal Small, researchers at KTH Royal Institute ...

Researchers report that it is possible to imbue graphite -- the bulk, 3D material found in No. 2 pencils -- with physical properties similar to graphite's 2D counterpart, graphene. Not only was this ...

Workers who handle graphene as a dry powder can be exposed to airborne concentrations far above any proposed safety benchmark ...

Researcher Richard Olsson, seen here in the lab holding two sources of graphene, a spool of carbon fiber and a piece of mined graphite. Researchers in Sweden report a green alternative to reduce ...