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Graphene Produced Using Kitchen Blender and Washing-Up Liquid

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Scientists have developed an innovative and potentially groundbreaking method to produce high-quality graphene of a consistent size and in large amounts.

The research, recently published in Nature Materials, was led by Professor Jonathan Coleman at the Advanced Materials and BioEngineering Research (Amber) centre at Trinity College Dublin.

“It is a significant step forward towards cheap and scalable mass production,” said Andrea Ferrari, an expert on graphene at the University of Cambridge.

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Graphene Discovery Blender Mass-ProductionGraphene has been hailed as a miracle material that could revolutionise modern industry but has so far proved difficult to mass produce.University of Manchester

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Graphene-coated spiders create carbon nanotube silk strong enough to catch a plane

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Spiders sprayed with a thin layer of graphene and carbon nanotubes have produced super-strong webs with record-beating properties.

Combining one of the strongest natural materials with one of the strongest artificial materials, researchers at the University of Trento in Italy created what they describe as “super silk”.

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graphene spider carbon nanotubesSpraying spiders with a mixture of graphene and water produces super strong silk that could lead to a new class of materialsReuters

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