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Briefing
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- Low Cost and Simple Graphene Production – Scientists from Georgia Institute of Technology, Technische Universität München in Germany, and University of St. Andrews in Scotland developed low cost and simple way to produce graphene from ethene, a hydrocarbon, by heating it in stages at little more than 700 degrees Celsius
- How It Works – Gradually heating ethene removes hydrogen out of structure and leaves behind carbon material graphene
- Previous Methods – Previous ways to make graphene involved process called chemical vapor deposition, evaporating silicon from silicon carbide, or exfoliating graphene sheets from graphite, with efforts to make graphene from hydrocarbons failing to produce structured graphene
- Graphene Applications – Has attractive physical and electronic properties, such as strength, flexibility, and conductivity, and has applications in sensors, displays, energy storage, solar panels, and more
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