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Chemistry World December 8, 2015	Predicted penta-graphene falls flat An international group of scientists has ruled out the possibility that penta-graphene, a two-dimensional carbon layer made exclusively from pentagons, will ever exist.
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Chemistry World June 17, 2012 Harriet Brewerton	Back to carbon black Scientists in Singapore have discovered the potential of a readily available material that could be used to replace expensive graphene analogues in a wide range of electrochemical processes.
Chemistry World May 9, 2010 Hayley Birch	Filming fullerene formation Real-time, atomic level microscopy has revealed that the round, cage-like structures of fullerenes can form directly from sheets containing large numbers of carbon atoms.
Chemistry World January 29, 2015 Jennifer Newton	Graphene looks to doped superbenzene to overcome electronic hurdles Building graphene from carefully-modified superbenzene segments has been proposed as a way to help graphene overcome a major stumbling block limiting its application in electronic devices.
Chemistry World November 2011 Philip Ball	Column: The Crucible Growing graphene by CVD might benefit from an initial injection of hexagonality to start off on the right footing.
Chemistry World November 1, 2013 Laura Howes	UK failing to capitalize on graphene A new policy statement from the Institution of Mechanical Engineers warns that while UK universities lead the world in graphene development, the country's poor commercialization of the material could see it fall behind.
Chemistry World November 15, 2006 Michael Gross	Nanoribbons Put Electrons in a Spin A small ribbon made of the carbon honeycomb pattern found in graphite and nanotubes could display intriguing electronic properties and serve as a material for spin-based electronics (spintronics), researchers have predicted.
Technology Research News August 13, 2003	Carbon wires expand nano toolkit Scientists looking for building blocks to form electronics and machines that are not much bigger than molecules have gained a new tool.
Chemistry World February 28, 2007 Richard Van Noorden	First Graphene Transistors May Herald Future of Electronic Chips Researchers claim to have created the world's first practical transistors cut from ribbons of graphene, a single layer of carbon atoms.
Chemistry World June 10, 2009 Jon Cartwright	'Bilayer' graphene shows tunable bandgap Since its discovery in 2004, the carbon-based material known as graphene has revealed a stream of attractive properties.
IEEE Spectrum November 2010 Sinitskii & Tour	Graphene Electronics, Unzipped By unrolling tiny carbon tubes, you can produce superthin sheets with truly extraordinary electronic properties
Chemistry World August 14, 2012 Andy Extance	Carbon clusters score lucky seven US and Chinese chemists say that they've calculated the structure of a stable carbon dication that would have a higher coordination number than any yet seen experimentally.
Chemistry World October 3, 2013 Jon Cartwright	Graphene targets water treatment and carbon capture Researchers in South Korea have demonstrated that a membrane based on graphene and graphene oxide makes an effective filter to separate carbon dioxide from nitrogen gas.
Chemistry World October 15, 2014 Jennifer Newton	Liming Dai: Integrating nanochemistry into the macroscopic world Liming Dai's expertise lies across the synthesis, chemical modification and device fabrication of conjugated polymers and carbon nanomaterials for energy-related and biomedical applications.
Chemistry World July 23, 2012 David Bradley	The buzz about finding new allotropes Researchers in China have homed in on possible new allotropes of carbon, silicon and germanium using a particle swarm structure search technique.
Chemistry World December 18, 2012 Caryl Richards	Boron vapor trail leads to heterofullerenes A team of scientists has developed a simple way to synthesize heterofullerenes -- fullerenes with atoms other than carbon in their structure -- by exposing fullerene to boron vapor during their growth.
Chemistry World February 10, 2009 Hayley Birch	Controversial new theory for nanotube growth If predictions are borne out experimentally, the theory could have practical implications for researchers trying to control nanotube growth in the lab. But experts say the theory may be unrealistic.
Technology Research News December 1, 2004	Short Nanotubes Carry Big Currents Researchers have developed a simple way to fabricate carbon nanotube devices whose length is as small as ten nanometers, and have shown that electricity can pass through the nanotubes very efficiently.
Chemistry World January 25, 2007 Tom Westgate	Graphene Resonator Drums up Interest Scientists have created a one-atom-thick membrane that resonates like a drumskin. No sign of a nano-drumstick though: the researchers 'beat' the drum with a voltage or a laser matched to the natural resonant frequency of the graphene sheet.
Chemistry World November 7, 2012 Simon Hadlington	World's first all-carbon solar cell Researchers in the US and China have built a photovoltaic cell made entirely from carbon. The electrodes and light-active layers are made from a combination of three carbon allotropes -- nanotubes, fullerenes and graphene.
Chemistry World June 21, 2012 Phillip Broadwith	Building nanographene by organic synthesis Japanese scientists are making tiny fragments of graphene using direct cross-coupling of C-H bonds to determine what effect size and edge geometry have on the properties of carbon materials.
Chemistry World May 30, 2012 Jon Cartwright	Tiny buckyball grown around metal atom An international team of researchers has observed the smallest fullerene to form spontaneously to date using metal atoms for stabilization.
Chemistry World June 25, 2014 Tim Wogan	Unusual 2D silica allotrope predicted A graphene-like allotrope of silica with unusual physical and electrical properties has been predicted by theoretical chemists in Turkey.
Chemistry World April 24, 2015 Harriet Brewerton	Disrupting graphene Scientists across the field of 2D materials have put forward a roadmap to steer graphene research off the drawing board, to a point where it emerges within disruptive technologies that alter people's lives the world over.
Chemistry World June 23, 2011 Carl Saxton	Graphene goes 3D Scientists in China have developed a quick and easy procedure for preparing 3D graphene in water, enhancing graphene's properties so that it can be used in supercapacitors, to store hydrogen and as a catalyst support.
Chemistry World December 15, 2011 Simon Hadlington	Scrunched up graphene to store hydrogen Corrugated graphene could be used as an inexpensive and efficient way to store hydrogen, according to theoretical calculations by scientists in Italy.
Chemistry World August 29, 2012 James Urquhart	Graphene--boron nitride stitching to sew up electronics The race to create ultrathin, transparent and flexible electronic devices using graphene -- the most conductive material known to exist -- has a promising new contender.
Chemistry World June 19, 2009 Lewis Brindley	Cutting graphene to ribbons American researchers have used nickel nanoparticles as 'atomic-scale scissors' to cutgraphene sheets into useful pieces.
Chemistry World August 13, 2012 Hayley Birch	Graphene reactions driven by substrate not reactant In chemical reactions, the reactants determine the level of reactivity. Not for graphene though -- the one-atom-thick sheets of carbon can react vigorously or barely at all to the same chemicals, depending on the substrate they're sitting on.
Chemistry World February 21, 2012	Treat science as a hobby Jie Liu talks to Heather Montgomery about his scientific inspirations and the next big breakthrough in carbon nanotube research.
Chemistry World December 10, 2008 Hayley Birch	New routes to gram-scale graphene Australian researchers have reported making grams of graphene using nothing more complicated than sodium and ethanol
Chemistry World September 18, 2007 Lewis Brindley	Nanocircuits Made Easy Scientists in Israel have developed a simple way of making complex networks of carbon nanotubes and stamping them onto circuit boards, taking a further step towards building the next generation of smaller, faster microchips.
Chemistry World November 26, 2012 David Bradley	Spotting silicon in graphene, it's dope A combination of scanning transmission electron microscopy and atomic-resolution spectroscopic techniques has allowed US researchers to pick out individual silicon atoms in a doped graphene sheet.
Technology Research News March 9, 2005	Method Makes Double Nanotubes Researchers can now fabricate pure batches of double-walled carbon nanotubes, which theoretically should be more thermally and chemically stable than single walled nanotubes.
Technology Research News July 14, 2004	Laser tweezer traps nanotubes The researchers have showed that it is possible to pattern clusters of nanotubes into configurations that are likely to have near-term applications as chemical, biological and physical sensors.
Chemistry World December 11, 2013 Jon Cartwright	Vibrations couple light to graphene Two independent groups have shown that light can be effectively turned into surface plasmons in graphene if the carbon sheet is made to vibrate.
Chemistry World May 16, 2006 Jon Evans	Buckyballs Worth Their Weight in Gold A team of chemists and physicists has uncovered evidence for the existence of hollow buckyball-like cages made of gold.
Chemistry World September 19, 2010 Simon Hadlington	One dimensional carbon chains get longer Researchers in Canada have synthesised the longest polyyne to date - a linear chain of carbon atoms.
Chemistry World July 7, 2015 Matthew Gunther	Football-sized fullerene gets an electric response A football-sized resonator that can simulate the properties of a carbon fullerene has been created by scientists in Germany.
Chemistry World July 5, 2009 Simon Hadlington	Novel chemical approach to graphene Researchers in the US have devised a new way to create graphene - sheets of carbon one atom thick that have extraordinary electronic properties - based upon a detailed understanding of the chemical structure of an important precursor of the material, graphite oxide.
Technology Research News November 3, 2004 Eric Smalley	Ultrathin carbon speeds circuits Researchers have found that the equivalent of unrolled carbon nanotubes -- sheets of carbon atoms only a few atoms thick -- have comparable electrical properties and are more compatible with today's chipmaking methods. It could be used practically within five years
Technology Research News February 25, 2004	Nanotube mix makes liquid crystal Carbon nanotubes are rolled-up sheets of carbon atoms that can be as narrow as 0.4 nanometers, or the span of four hydrogen atoms. They have useful electrical and mechanical properties and are a leading player in nanotechnology.
Chemistry World February 21, 2010 Lewis Brindley	Fullerenes break the rules Chinese researchers have made an exotic new family of fullerenes that contain three pentagons fused sequentially in their structure.
Technology Research News October 8, 2003	Nanotubes boost storage Scientists from IBM Research in Zurich, Osaka Prefecture University in Japan, and the Japanese Nanotechnology Research Institute have advanced the possibilities of using multiwalled carbon nanotubes to make denser, more efficient data storage devices.
Chemistry World September 6, 2012 Elinor Hughes	A uniform junction for uniform nanotubes In a bid to make structurally uniform carbon nanotubes for applications in optoelectronics, for example, and following on from work done to make uniform carbon nanoring sidewalls, scientists in Japan have now made a uniform junction unit for branched carbon nanotubes.
Technology Research News December 1, 2004 Eric Smalley	For Pure Nanotubes Add Water Washing away impurities with water turns out to be as good for growing carbon nanotubes as it is for keeping a clean house.
Chemistry World September 29, 2015 Jon Cartwright	Graphene band gap heralds new electronics Scientists in the US and France have produced graphene with a record high band gap of half an electronvolt (0.5 eV), which they claim is sufficient to produce useful graphene transistors.
Chemistry World February 1, 2012 Steve Down	The world's strongest fibers The toughest polymer yarn of all time has been made by mixing a polymer with sheets of reduced graphene oxide and carbon nanotubes during spinning.
Reactive Reports July 2004 David Bradley	Pure Nanotubes Researchers have developed a novel technique that allows them to purify carbon nanotubes and to sort those that are semiconducting from the metallic single-walled carbon nanotubes.