Amin Zouine - March 22, 2024 From grass to graphene: could methane answer the call for rising nanomaterial demand? Methane, the principal component in natural gas, accounts for approximately a third of the ...
David Brooks - February 27, 2024 Graphene Medtech: The Next Frontier It has been 20 years since Andre Geim and Konstantin Novoselov first isolated graphene: the two ...
Sarah Harvey - January 31, 2024 Hydrogels in sustainable agriculture As we move into 2024, the agricultural sector is being driven by the urgent need to address global ...
David Brooks - December 5, 2023 Layering up: how graphene is disrupting the sportswear industry Earlier this year, Novak Djokovic broke the men’s tennis record for the most Grand Slam tournament ...
Sarah Morrow - November 29, 2023 What is Graphene? For an undergraduate scientist, the answer to the question “What is graphene?” is perhaps all ...
Niles Beadman - November 28, 2023 Invention Capture: 5 Steps to Success - Transforming Technology to Patent Protection Invention capturing, also referred to as invention harvesting or invention mining, is the start of ...
Matthew Smith - September 8, 2023 Trends in Graphene IP – a refresh Last year, we delved into the data to see how the number of patent publications coming out had ...
David Brooks - September 6, 2023 Graphene: permeating the hydrogen economy The growth of the so-called “hydrogen economy” is crucial to achieving net-zero carbon emissions ...
Matthew Smith - June 12, 2023 Meet Ava Garside, teenage graphene innovator Ava Garside first created her pollution sensor badge aged 12. Now she's pushing the boundaries of ...
David Brooks - November 24, 2022 Graphene: the commercial disrupter Graphene has generated a tremendous amount of excitement since it was first isolated at the ...
Jacqueline Murphy - October 25, 2022 Graphene: patenting a wonder material Our Special Report Graphene: patenting a wonder material examines graphene-related patent ...
Matthew Smith - September 13, 2022 Supercrystals A new process allows for the creation of conductive nanocrystals, offering an extraordinarily wide ...
Matthew Smith - December 8, 2021 Podcast with James Baker: Graphene at the GEIC — the material creating a better, more sustainable future James Baker, CEO of the Graphene Engineering Innovation Centre, joins Forward Editor Caitlin ...
Alison Fugard - November 23, 2021 The green graphene revolution – the pursuit of sustainability If there is one word to describe graphene, it is “potential”. Since its discovery the possibilities ...
Jacqueline Murphy - July 27, 2021 Proud partners of the Graphene Engineering Innovation Centre (GEIC) for a 3rd year We are proud and excited to be entering our third year as an affiliate partner of the Graphene ...
Matthew Smith - July 14, 2021 Green graphene - graphene from waste As the demand for graphene continues to increase, so does the desire to provide it in large ...
Nathan Zhang - May 4, 2021 A sense of hope with graphene-based COVID-19 detection With mass COVID-19 vaccinations being rolled out by countries across the world, there may be an end ...
Nathan Zhang - January 15, 2021 Lithium-metal batteries: a separator solution to dendrites Global demand for clean, renewable energy is now higher than ever before. With climate change ...
Joseph Newcombe - December 11, 2020 Safer and better: Nanotech Energy batteries signal positive news Our lives require storage of electrical energy more than ever these days. Batteries are ...
Matthew Naylor - November 29, 2020 Graphene getting the automotive industry into gear In the years since graphene was first created at the University of Manchester in 2004 by Professors ...
Niles Beadman - September 4, 2020 Battery electrolytes: the latest graphene composites Storage of electrical energy is now an essential part of our lives. Charging and discharging ...
Paul Dunne - August 24, 2020 Meet the material: Robotic soft matter Inspired by muscles and activated by light, this lifelike and autonomous material could have ...
Matthew Smith - July 23, 2020 Graphene: Patently clear How is graphene contributing to the sustainability agenda? Matthew Smith highlights some recent ...
Matthew Smith - June 8, 2020 Edge of discovery New research into graphitic carbon nitride has brought a solution to water scarcity a step closer ...
Genevieve Pugh - April 28, 2020 Graphene masks: facing up to coronavirus (COVID-19) Since the development and isolation of graphene by researchers at Manchester University in 2004, ...
Jacqueline Murphy - January 23, 2020 Proud Partners of the Graphene Engineering Innovation Centre (GEIC) We are proud and excited to be starting our second year as an affiliate partner of the Graphene ...
Matthew Smith - December 18, 2019 Graphene Composites: 5 things we can learn from the IP data The European Patent Office (EPO) recently released some initial data about patenting activity in ...
Alison Fugard - December 18, 2019 Sustainability: Graphene offers new opportunities In our blog Green graphene - the pursuit of sustainability we looked at methods for the production ...
Matthew Smith - November 18, 2019 Graphene Hackathon 16-17 November 2019 saw a momentous occasion: innovators, creators and thinkers came together for ...
Niles Beadman - October 30, 2019 Printing the unprintable – new technique expands graphene printing to previously unsuitable substrates Printing with graphene is a large and growing field, representing a highly promising range of ...
Matthew Smith - September 24, 2019 Strict and inflexible: material claims at the EPO Innovators in advanced materials can face an uphill struggle to get suitable patent protection at ...
Matthew Naylor - August 30, 2019 Printing with graphene: exploring the inks set to unleash graphene's potential Graphene has been widely heralded as a game-changer in the research and development of new ...
Matthew Smith - July 31, 2019 Green graphene - the pursuit of sustainability Theoretically, at least, graphene can be produced from any carbon source. While the pursuit of ...
Matthew Smith - March 28, 2019 Advanced materials: game-changing graphene In the 15 years since Professors Andre Geim and Konstantin Novoselov isolated and discovered ...
Matthew Smith - October 25, 2018 Graphene: a whole new '2D world' Graphene has been heralded as a game changer in the research and development of new materials since ...