Two articles about Graphene were among most viewed in Chemistry on Sciencedirect

Recent advances in graphene based polymer composites which was authored by Tapas Kuilla et al (a team of Republic of Korea and USA) and Graphene-based polymer nanocomposites which was published by Jeffrey R. Potts et al (a team based on USA) were among top 25 hot article in between Jan-March 2012 in Chemistry category of Sciencedirect. Both of articles are reviews which covers extensive areas of graphene which can be access and purchased via following links

Recent advances in graphene based polymer composites

Graphene-based polymer nanocomposites

Graphene may revolutionize touch-screen displays, solar panels and LED lighting.

We all know touch screens are smart enough to sense a very soft finger movement and has increased user friendliness of mobile devices and even desktops. Anyway it is subjected to cracks while using and worst it can be broken when it is fallen down. As answer to this question, researchers at Rice University discuss about ability of graphene to lead touch screens of mobile phones and tablets Cheaper, no more cracked screens, and being able to make thinner devices. 

Graphene can be used as flexible and stretchable transparent electrodes in the future

 Once it was mentioned by BBC and miracle material. See what researchers imagine of capabilities of Graphene, due to high ratio of surface area/weight, strength, conductivity and many flexible features. 

Graphene as supportive structure for CuPt - Ionic liquid - an electrocatalyst for methanol oxidation

a DMFC (source: wikipidea)

In order to fulfill the requirement of firm and effective renewable energy sources, direct methanol fuel cell (DMFC) is one of fuel cell category which is being developed by industry and academia continuously. Yingju Liu and team of Institute of Biomaterials, College of Sciences, South China Agricultural University, Guangzhou, China has developed an essential electro catalyst for methanol oxidation with using large surface area per unit mass of graphene as advantage to disperse catalytically active CuPt assisted with an ionic liquid. Here they have synthesized graphene in their own lab by electrochemical oxidation of ultra-pure graphite and this is worthy to read your and add knowledge on using graphene as a catalyst synthesizer. 

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A review on available methods & patents of synthesizing graphene in mass production

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This vital review on commercially scale-up methods of Graphene has been published on NanoWerk which you must read before step into any synthesis method of it in commercial interest. Making graphene becomes easy and efficient day by day with numerous patents and research papers blooming up every part of the academia and industry.

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