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WASHINGTON (Washington Post) — Just a decade after graphene’s official discovery, we’re about to see the first commercially viable consumer product using this material: the graphene light bulb.

LONDON (Phys.org) — Far from being a defect, a winding thread of odd rings at the border of two sheets of graphene has qualities that may prove valuable to manufacturers, according to Rice University scientists.

SEOUL (BusinessKorea) — A Korean research team has successfully developed a technology to make a sponge-like electrode material using graphene and a polymer, leading to a graphene battery. The newly-developed battery is ten times as small as existing ones, but can show the same product performance.

MELBOURNE (Gizmag.com) — Researchers from the University of Manchester and University of Sheffield have developed a new prototype semi-transparent, graphene-based LED device that could form the basis of flexible screens for use in the next-generation of mobile phones, tablets and televisions. The incredibly thin display was created using sandwiched “heterostructures”, …

LONDON (Phys.org) — A team of physicists at the University of California, Riverside, has found an ingenious way to induce magnetism in graphene, while also preserving graphene’s electronic properties. The finding has the potential to increase graphene’s use in computers.

LONDON (Phys.org) — Could graphene turn light to electricity? Scientists have shown that graphene can convert a single photon to multiple electrons, showing much promise for future photovoltaics devices.

LONDON (Simon Moores/Benchmarkminerals.com) — Deutsche Bank believes we are at the dawn of a new auto era with “unprecedented technological and regulatory change” set to come in the next 5 years. In a new report viewed by Benchmark Mineral Intelligence that analyses the electric vehicle (EV) supply chain, the banking …

DALLAS (MarketsandMarkets.com) — The global graphene electronics market is expected to grow at a CAGR of 46.8% from 2014 to 2020 and the overall graphene electronics market in 2013 was around $58.53 million, which is expected to reach to $1512.10 million in 2020. The major players in graphene electronics market …

LONDON (newelectronics) — Graphene’s exceptional strength has been confirmed by a team of Rice University researchers, who have tested the material’s properties by peppering it with microbullets. Led by materials scientist Edwin Thomas, the team used less than 1lb of graphene to prove that the material is on average 10 …