Is carbon black an analog for graphene? Researchers think so

ERJ staff report (DS)

London - Researchers at the Singapore-based Nanyang Technological University are looking at the possibility that carbon black - and other amorphous carbon materials -- can be used as an analog material for graphene.

Graphene is a new supermaterial made of a sheet of carbon atoms just one atom deep. It is very strong and offers remarkable properties to materials engineers.

In a paper titled, “Thermally Reduced Graphenes Exhibiting Close Relationship to Amorphous Carbon”, published in the June 2012 issue of Nanoscale, the researchers led by Martin Pumera sggest that there are significant similarities.

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Abstract from Nanomaterials journal