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To make graphene behave more like a semiconductor, researchers propose vibrating the lattice in a specific rotating pattern.

The so-far disappointingly short lifetime of spin-polarized currents in graphene may be the result of magnetic defects.

Quantum Hall effects can be exploited to tune, reverse, and even eliminate the Casimir force between two graphene sheets.

Electron microscopy reveals the bond configurations of individual silicon impurities adsorbed on graphene.

Graphene researchers show the leakage of heat from electrons to sound vibrations is small enough to allow for sensitive light detectors.

Raman spectroscopy probes the effects on the electronic properties of double-layer graphene when the layers are counterrotated.

The electronic properties of graphene allow a population inversion to be established within the duration of a 35-femtosecond light pulse.

Scanning tunneling microscopy and spectroscopy experiments show how missing carbon atoms affect graphene’s electronic and magnetic properties.

Sheets of single-layer carbon with a variety of bonding patterns may have properties similar to the wonder material graphene, according to new computer simulations.

Nanoscale planar materials such as graphene could be twisted to fabricate tubular objects.

A sheet of tiny structures, such as nanoscale graphene disks, can absorb all incident light of a specific wavelength coming from any direction, theory suggests.

Transport properties at the edges of topological states of matter may be more readily observed in graphene compared to other 2D systems.

Photoemission performed with circular polarized light can detect the chirality of electronic wave functions in single- and double-layer graphene.

Hydrogen storage on carbon materials is strongly affected by the presence of oxygen.

Photoemission measurements detect the effects of local curvature on the band structure of suspended graphene.

Graphene, a single layer of carbon atoms, can be multiply folded in a controlled way into various types of single or periodic structures with intriguing properties.

Thin sheets of length scales ranging from graphene to paper are shown to exhibit a universal behavior of self-similar wrinkling patterns.

A combination of strain and scalar potentials opens a gap in graphene.

Researchers identify a new class of graphene defects.

A gold nanoparticle at the end of an STM tip is used to image the local charge fluctuations on a sheet of graphene.