(Nanowerk Spotlight) Soft robotics and biomedical devices are pioneering fields that aim to create machinery and tools that mimic the soft, flexible nature of human tissues. This is crucial because it ...

Graphene-based nanoparticle composites attract considerable attention due to their unique properties and the large variety of possible applications, such as sensing, energy storage, and catalysis. The ...

Researchers have found a new way to synthesize graphene oxide which has significantly fewer defects compared to materials produced by most common method. Similarly good graphene oxide could be ...

New findings reveal that organosulfate groups, not carboxyls, control graphene oxide's surface charge in water, challenging long-standing models and reshaping its chemical profile. (Nanowerk Spotlight ...

Giant flakes make graphene oxide gel Soft Matter Funder U.S. National Science Foundation, the Air Force Research Lab, Welch Foundation, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, the Colorado Renewable and ...