More factoids on graphene

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Repost from Clean Tecnica | by Nathan | June 2, 2013

Graphene is an exciting new material that consist of single layer of carbon and is endowned by remarkable strength and other features:   absorption of wide spectrum of light,  ability to absorb single photon of light into multiple electrons.  However, perfect graphene can be produced only in small sizes and connection with other sheets make it structurally weak.

New method of CVD  (Crystalline Vapor Deposition) can make large areas of of perfect graphene. What was found out is that chemicals used in CVD can make graphene weak.

Applications for graphene include:

TV screens that can be rolled (or iPad or or cellphones)

space elevators

ultra strong materials surpassing carbon fiber

Read more on graphene >>>

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Top cleantech news of the day from CleanTechnica, the world's #1 cleantech or clean energy website: First Navy Solar EV Charging Station Opens, Last Coal Power Plant Closes Scotland Capital Considering Electric Bicycle Hire Scheme Japan Offers Loans For Rooftop PV Generation US Tops In Renewable Energy Attractiveness As Sector Comes Of Age Chevy Volt's New Ad Is… Okay Graphene Is The Strongest Material In The World Even When It Has Defects, Research Finds Top 50 Solar Energy Stories Of The Year (Part Four: #31-40) Better Buildings Challenge Infographic Nissan Field Testing 100% Electric Van Community Energy Push In Australia Inside A Network Operator — Solar, Grid Storage, & More I May Have Overreacted To the IEA Germany Report Top 50 Solar Energy Stories Of The Year (Part Three: #21-30) Excerpts: First Navy Solar EV Charging Station Opens, Last Coal Power Plant Closes The Navy got its first ever solar powered electric vehicle charging station last week, and though it’s a drop in the bucket compared to the Navy’s overall fuel consumption it is yet another demonstration of a slow but steady transition out of petroleum dependency by the US military. The news also comes as the Navy gives coal the heave-ho, moving forward with a contract to replace a 1950′s era coal fired power plant at its … Read More First Navy Solar EV Charging Station Opens, Last Coal Power Plant Closes was originally published on: CleanTechnica. To read more from CleanTechnica, join over 30,000 others and subscribe to our free RSS feed, follow us on Facebook (also free!), follow us on Twitter, or just visit our homepage (yep, free). Read on » Scotland Capital Considering Electric Bicycle Hire Scheme The capital of Scotland may soon have a city-wide electric bicycle hire scheme. Edinburgh is looking into something similar to the “Boris Bike” network that is in London and the Citi Bike system that just launched in New York City, but using electric bikes with such a scheme. The new scheme would place over 5,000 motorized bicycles across the city in key locations, along with charging points. To get a bicycle, one will just have … Read More Scotland Capital Considering Electric Bicycle Hire Scheme was originally published on: CleanTechnica. To read more from CleanTechnica, join over 30,000 others and subscribe to our free RSS feed, follow us on Facebook (also free!), follow us on Twitter, or just visit our homepage (yep, free). Read on » Japan Offers Loans For Rooftop PV Generation For several years now, Japan has been on the solar map, being one of the leading manufacturers of solar panels and in the top 5 ranking for countries with the most solar PV installed. Since the Fukushima accident, Japan has been looking to solar even more in order to replace nuclear generation, which accounted for 30% of its total energy generation before the March 2011 disaster that prompted the closure of all but two of the nation's nuclear … Read More Japan Offers Loans For Rooftop PV Generation was originally published on: CleanTechnica. 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But I think it sorely misses the ball when it comes to reaching the average consumer. Some more thoughts: The Chevy Volt has a new ad out. I’m sorry to say that I think it misses the mark. It does a great job selling the Volt’s green idealism. But that’s not what should be getting sold! ”Green” isn’t the best at … Read More Chevy Volt’s New Ad Is… Okay was originally published on: CleanTechnica. To read more from CleanTechnica, join over 30,000 others and subscribe to our free RSS feed, follow us on Facebook (also free!), follow us on Twitter, or just visit our homepage (yep, free). Read on » Graphene Is The Strongest Material In The World Even When It Has Defects, Research Finds Graphene is the strongest material in the world, even when it has notable defects, new research has found. Even when stitched together from numerous small crystalline grains, rather than being created directly in its perfect crystalline form, the material possesses its trademark and remarkable strength. This new research contradicts previous theoretical simulations which predicted that such defect-containing graphene would be much weaker than graphene in a perfect lattice. It’s been said that graphene is so … Read More Graphene Is The Strongest Material In The World Even When It Has Defects, Research Finds was originally published on: CleanTechnica. To read more from CleanTechnica, join over 30,000 others and subscribe to our free RSS feed, follow us on Facebook (also free!), follow us on Twitter, or just visit our homepage (yep, free). Read on » Top 50 Solar Energy Stories Of The Year (Part Four: #31-40) We’re trying to get more solar energy stories going over on Planetsave. To catch readers up, I’m doing a short series on the top 50 solar energy stories of 2013 so far. Learning from the Top 33 EV Stories article I recently published, I’m splitting this one into 5 posts. Otherwise, the page would take forever to load. Plus, it’s easier to swallow 10 at a time. 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But, as you might expect, commercial buildings and industrial facilities … Read More Better Buildings Challenge Infographic was originally published on: CleanTechnica. To read more from CleanTechnica, join over 30,000 others and subscribe to our free RSS feed, follow us on Facebook (also free!), follow us on Twitter, or just visit our homepage (yep, free). Read on » Nissan Field Testing 100% Electric Van We’ve written about Nissan’s 100% electric van a few times, including its entry into Europe and Fed-Ex testing. Sister site Gas2 has also had some words about it. I think we’re all eagerly awaiting its arrival in the US market. Right now we can tell you that Nissan is doing some more field testing (not done yet?). More info via EV Obsession and Nissan: Nissan has been an obvious leader in the electric car arena. It’s getting … Read More Nissan Field Testing 100% Electric Van was originally published on: CleanTechnica. To read more from CleanTechnica, join over 30,000 others and subscribe to our free RSS feed, follow us on Facebook (also free!), follow us on Twitter, or just visit our homepage (yep, free). Read on » Community Energy Push In Australia This article was originally published on RenewEconomy. Community energy and pro renewable NGOs are calling for the Federal government to establish a $50 million fund that would seek to leverage up to half a billion dollar of investment  in community-owned renewable energy projects. The call for a Community Energy Grant Fund is an attempt to offer a catalyst for growing community interest in renewable energy projects, and to fill in a gap in the country's … Read More Community Energy Push In Australia was originally published on: CleanTechnica. To read more from CleanTechnica, join over 30,000 others and subscribe to our free RSS feed, follow us on Facebook (also free!), follow us on Twitter, or just visit our homepage (yep, free). Read on » Inside A Network Operator — Solar, Grid Storage, & More This article was originally published on RenewEconomy. We've been hearing a lot about the solar revolution recently: from the largest generators and utilities in the US, the entire German power industry, from the world's biggest solar companies, and from leading energy analysts from the likes of Macquarie Group, UBS, Deutsche Bank, and Citigroup who track the implications for listed electricity and energy technology assets around the world. The basic synopsis is that the arrival of rooftop solar as a cheaper alternative to grid based … Read More Inside A Network Operator — Solar, Grid Storage, & More was originally published on: CleanTechnica. To read more from CleanTechnica, join over 30,000 others and subscribe to our free RSS feed, follow us on Facebook (also free!), follow us on Twitter, or just visit our homepage (yep, free). 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To catch readers up, I’m doing a short series on the top 50 solar energy stories of 2013 so far. Learning from the Top 33 EV Stories article I recently published, I’m splitting this one into 5 posts. Otherwise, the page would take forever to load. Plus, it’s easier to swallow 10 at a time. It’s pretty hard to actually rank these top 50 articles, so … Read More Top 50 Solar Energy Stories Of The Year (Part Three: #21-30) was originally published on: CleanTechnica. To read more from CleanTechnica, join over 30,000 others and subscribe to our free RSS feed, follow us on Facebook (also free!), follow us on Twitter, or just visit our homepage (yep, free). Read on » Thanks for loving us.  View this email in your browser Related Sites: Some rights reserved  unsubscribe from this list    update subscription preferences

Graphene butterfly, a space age material, spreads its wings

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From Clean Technica by Tina Casey | May 14, 2013

Graphene is an exceptionally strong material only an atom thick, just similar to its cousin carbon fiber and is finding a number of exotic materials used in electronics, batteries, and PV.

When subjected to a strong magnetic field, the  atoms form a butterfly effect. This is done by using boron nitride to form a perfect lattice for the butterfly effect.  (We know the use of boron in a recent post on use of boron for stronger L-ion storage(  Please read post on this blog re graphene boron combination in batteries)

Latest use of graphene is on smartphones that are scratch proof.  The product concept of a foldable or rollable smartphone

Boron in Graphene for better Li-ion capacity and better batteries

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From Clean Technica article by a guest contributor | May 24, 2013

Boron in graphene could improve its capacity to retain Lithium ions for greater Li-ion capacity.  Graphene lattices, a new space material which could have very dense storage capacity could not do so as is, but researchers/scientists at Rice University found a way to increase capacity by adding Boron. The lead scientist is Dr. Boris  Yakobson.  Graphene's performance is 2x that of graphite, the traditional material used for Li-ion batteries.

Yakobson and first Rice researcher Yuanye Liu estimated the lithiated graphene boron capacity to be  714 milliamps per hour per gram or 2, 120 watt hours per kg. when paired with commercial boron lithium oxide

The next step is how to commercialize the idea, ie produce the lithiated graphene/boron in large quantity

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Top cleantech news of the day from CleanTechnica, the world's #1 cleantech or clean energy website: Mosaic Find 800 Investors Per Million For Crowdfunded Solar Projects Coal Tax To Fund India's 750 MW Solar Power Capacity Addition Plan In 2013 Top 20 Solar Module Manufacturers Up To 70% Of Market Share Elusive Graphene Butterfly Finally Spreads Its Wings The Next Apple Will Be Found In LED Lighting Solar And Lithium Ion Car Race Winners Announced Elon Musk Quits Zuckerberg's Immigration Advocacy Group Excerpts: Mosaic Find 800 Investors Per Million For Crowdfunded Solar Projects Mosaic have been a big success around here since we first heard about them, unsurprisingly given their innovative method of crowd-funding renewable energy solutions. It turns out that we’re not the only ones excited, though, as Mosaic have just announced that 823 people have invested in their largest solar project ever, a 487 kW installation on New Jersey's famous Wildwoods boardwalk. 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According to the guidelines recently released by the government, the project developers will receive financial assistance of up … Read More Coal Tax To Fund India’s 750 MW Solar Power Capacity Addition Plan In 2013 was originally published on: CleanTechnica. To read more from CleanTechnica, join over 30,000 others and subscribe to our free RSS feed, follow us on Facebook (also free!), follow us on Twitter, or just visit our homepage (yep, free). Read on » Top 20 Solar Module Manufacturers Up To 70% Of Market Share This article was originally published on Solarbuzz. The top 20 solar photovoltaic (PV) module suppliers accounted for almost 70% of global PV shipments in Q1'13, according to the latest NPD Solarbuzz Module Tracker Quarterly report. "The continued consolidation of solar PV manufacturers is creating opportunities for the leading tier 1 module suppliers," explained Ray Lian, Senior Analyst at NPD Solarbuzz. 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It looks like the latest match will end in a draw, as two international research teams have both succeeded in manipulating graphene to produce a phenomenon that until now has only been known in theory, the Hofstadter … Read More Elusive Graphene Butterfly Finally Spreads Its Wings was originally published on: CleanTechnica. To read more from CleanTechnica, join over 30,000 others and subscribe to our free RSS feed, follow us on Facebook (also free!), follow us on Twitter, or just visit our homepage (yep, free). Read on » The Next Apple Will Be Found In LED Lighting This article first appeared on Technica Communications. by Lisa Ann Pinkerton Who doesn't wish they had invested in Apple when it was $16 a share? Quite often, timing the market is more intuition than science.  Those who know analog to digital inflection points are watching LEDs.  Get it right, and enormous wealth can be created. Time it wrong and you're left in the dust, like Polaroid. 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