Tag Archives: carbon nanotubes

Great, the physics Nobel prize for graphene! Now don’t overhype it…

Today it was announced that the 2010 Nobel prize in physics goes to Andre Geim and Konstantin Novoselov “for groundbreaking experiments regarding the two-dimensional material graphene.” Geim’s and Novoselov’s work on graphene has been frequently predicted for the Nobel prize, although interestingly graphene has been studied long before they entered the field. Studies on graphene [...]

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In other news: self-regenerating solar cells

This week my colleagues at Nature Chemistry landed an impressive scoop, the publication of a paper by Michael Strano and colleagues from MIT on self-regenerating solar cells. The performance of any kind of solar cell tends to degrade over time. This is particularly the case for organic solar cells, where sunlight can easily destroy the structure of the [...]

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