Ten years in two dimensions - p725

doi:10.1038/nnano.2014.244

Are graphene technologies ready for commercialization?

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The global growth of graphene pp726 - 730

Wencai Ren & Hui-Ming Cheng

doi:10.1038/nnano.2014.229

The large-scale production of graphene aimed at industrial applications has grown significantly in the past few years, especially since many companies in China have entered the market.

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Challenges and opportunities in graphene commercialization pp730 - 734

Amaia Zurutuza & Claudio Marinelli

doi:10.1038/nnano.2014.225

As technical knowledge, manufacturing methods and the development of applications mature, key factors will affect the pace of commercialization of graphene.

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Things you could do with graphene p737

doi:10.1038/nnano.2014.245

We asked seven experts in their fields to share their views on the potential and challenges in the realization of graphene-based products in a range of technologies.

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Graphene for displays that bend pp737 - 738

Jong-Hyun Ahn & Byung Hee Hong

doi:10.1038/nnano.2014.226

Jong-Hyun Ahn and Byung Hee Hong discuss how graphene can be used in the development of flexible electronics.

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Electrifying inks with 2D materials pp738 - 739

Felice Torrisi & Jonathan N. Coleman

doi:10.1038/nnano.2014.218

Felice Torrisi and Jonathan N. Coleman describe how graphene can be used in conductive inks to print electronic circuits.

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Charging graphene for energy pp739 - 741

Jun Liu

doi:10.1038/nnano.2014.233

Energy storage is a grand challenge for future energy infrastructure, transportation and consumer electronics. Jun Liu discusses how graphene may — or may not — be used to improve various electrochemical energy storage devices.

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Graphene against corrosion pp741 - 742

Siva Böhm

doi:10.1038/nnano.2014.220

Siva Böhm discusses how graphene can be used to prevent corrosion of metals such as steel.

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Sequencing with graphene pores p743

Marija Drndić

doi:10.1038/nnano.2014.232

Solid-state nanopores are often used for biomolecular analysis, but have so far been unable to sequence DNA. Marija Drndić asks whether nanopores made in graphene could fulfil all of the requirements needed for sequencing.

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Graphene devices for life pp744 - 745

Kostas Kostarelos & Kostya S. Novoselov

doi:10.1038/nnano.2014.224

Kostas Kostarelos and Kostya S. Novoselov examine the potential of graphene in biomedical applications.

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Graphene in the sky and beyond pp745 - 747

Emilie J. Siochi

doi:10.1038/nnano.2014.231

Emilie J. Siochi explains how most of the properties of graphene could be of use in aerospace applications.

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Polycrystalline graphene and other two-dimensional materials pp755 - 767

Oleg V. Yazyev & Yong P. Chen

doi:10.1038/nnano.2014.166

This Review discusses the recent experimental and theoretical findings on polycrystalline graphene and related materials.

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Electronics based on two-dimensional materials pp768 - 779

Gianluca Fiori, Francesco Bonaccorso, Giuseppe Iannaccone, Tomás Palacios, Daniel Neumaier, Alan Seabaugh, Sanjay K. Banerjee & Luigi Colombo

doi:10.1038/nnano.2014.207

The potential and challenges for electronic applications of graphene and other 2D materials are explored in this Review.

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Photodetectors based on graphene, other two-dimensional materials and hybrid systems pp780 - 793

F. H. L. Koppens, T. Mueller, Ph. Avouris, A. C. Ferrari, M. S. Vitiello & M. Polini

doi:10.1038/nnano.2014.215

This article reviews recent advances in the application of 2D materials for the detection of light in various frequency ranges.

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Graphene spintronics pp794 - 807

Wei Han, Roland K. Kawakami, Martin Gmitra & Jaroslav Fabian

doi:10.1038/nnano.2014.214

Spin-dependent phenomena and applications in graphene and other 2D materials are discussed in this Review.

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Raman spectroscopy as a versatile tool for studying the properties of graphene pp235 - 246

Andrea C. Ferrari & Denis M. Basko

doi:10.1038/nnano.2013.46

Advances in the understanding of Raman processes in graphene have made it an essential tool for studying the properties of this one-atom-thick carbon material.

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Electronics and optoelectronics of two-dimensional transition metal dichalcogenides pp699 - 712

Qing Hua Wang, Kourosh Kalantar-Zadeh, Andras Kis, Jonathan N. Coleman & Michael S. Strano

doi:10.1038/nnano.2012.193

Single-layer metal dichalcogenides are two-dimensional semiconductors that present strong potential for electronic and sensing applications complementary to that of graphene.

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Low-frequency 1/f noise in graphene devices pp549 - 555

Alexander A. Balandin

doi:10.1038/nnano.2013.144

This Progress Article examines the characteristic features of low-frequency electronic noise in graphene, and discusses the implications and potential applications of such noise in graphene-based electronic devices.

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Solar-energy conversion and light emission in an atomic monolayer p–n diode pp257 - 261

Andreas Pospischil, Marco M. Furchi & Thomas Mueller

doi:10.1038/nnano.2014.14

A p–n junction is fabricated in a monolayer of WSe₂, which can be used as a solar cell, a photodiode and a light-emitting diode.

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Optoelectronic devices based on electrically tunable p–n diodes in a monolayer dichalcogenide pp262 - 267

Britton W. H. Baugher, Hugh O. H. Churchill, Yafang Yang & Pablo Jarillo-Herrero

doi:10.1038/nnano.2014.25

An electrostatically defined p–n junction in monolayer WSe₂ is employed for photodetection, photovoltaic operation and as a light-emitting diode.

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Electrically tunable excitonic light-emitting diodes based on monolayer WSe₂ p–n junctions pp268 - 272

Jason S. Ross, Philip Klement, Aaron M. Jones, Nirmal J. Ghimire, Jiaqiang Yan, D. G. Mandrus, Takashi Taniguchi, Kenji Watanabe, Kenji Kitamura, Wang Yao, David H. Cobden & Xiaodong Xu

doi:10.1038/nnano.2014.26

Bright and electrostatically tunable electroluminescence from monolayer WSe₂ p–n junctions is reported.

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Graphene photodetectors with ultra-broadband and high responsivity at room temperature pp273 - 278

Chang-Hua Liu, You-Chia Chang, Theodore B. Norris & Zhaohui Zhong

doi:10.1038/nnano.2014.31

A pair of stacked graphene layers separated by a tunnel barrier show sensitive photodetection capabilities.

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Graphene mechanical oscillators with tunable frequency pp923 - 927

Changyao Chen, Sunwoo Lee, Vikram V. Deshpande, Gwan-Hyoung Lee, Michael Lekas, Kenneth Shepard & James Hone

doi:10.1038/nnano.2013.232

Self-sustained graphene mechanical oscillators with tunable frequencies are fabricated and used to demonstrate frequency-modulated audio transmission.

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Electronic and plasmonic phenomena at graphene grain boundaries pp821 - 825

Z. Fei, A. S. Rodin, W. Gannett, S. Dai, W. Regan, M. Wagner, M. K. Liu, A. S. McLeod, G. Dominguez, M. Thiemens, Antonio H. Castro Neto, F. Keilmann, A. Zettl, R. Hillenbrand, M. M. Fogler & D. N. Basov

doi:10.1038/nnano.2013.197

Individual grain boundaries are imaged using a scanning plasmon interferometry technique, revealing mechanistic insights on electronic transport and plasmon propagation in graphene.

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Graphene-MoS₂ hybrid structures for multifunctional photoresponsive memory devices pp826 - 830

Kallol Roy, Medini Padmanabhan, Srijit Goswami, T. Phanindra Sai, Gopalakrishnan Ramalingam, Srinivasan Raghavan & Arindam Ghosh

doi:10.1038/nnano.2013.206

Graphene–MoS₂ hybrid structures show potential for optical memory devices because of their high photodetection sensitivity, and their persistent photoconductivity that can be tuned by a gate voltage.

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Sensitive capture of circulating tumour cells by functionalized graphene oxide nanosheets pp735 - 741

Hyeun Joong Yoon, Tae Hyun Kim, Zhuo Zhang, Ebrahim Azizi, Trinh M. Pham, Costanza Paoletti, Jules Lin, Nithya Ramnath, Max S. Wicha, Daniel F. Hayes, Diane M. Simeone & Sunitha Nagrath

doi:10.1038/nnano.2013.194

Circulating tumour cells from patients with early-stage cancers have now been captured and characterized by using functionalized graphene oxide nanosheets.

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Ultrasensitive photodetectors based on monolayer MoS₂ pp497 - 501

Oriol Lopez-Sanchez, Dominik Lembke, Metin Kayci, Aleksandra Radenovic & Andras Kis

doi:10.1038/nnano.2013.100

A very sensitive photodector based on molybdenum disulphide with potential for integrated optoelectronic circuits, light sensing, biomedical imaging, video recording or spectroscopy is now demonstrated.

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Vertical field-effect transistor based on graphene-WS₂ heterostructures for flexible and transparent electronics pp100 - 103

Thanasis Georgiou, Rashid Jalil, Branson D. Belle, Liam Britnell, Roman V. Gorbachev, Sergey V. Morozov, Yong-Jin Kim, Ali Gholinia, Sarah J. Haigh, Oleg Makarovsky, Laurence Eaves, Leonid A. Ponomarenko, Andre K. Geim, Kostya S. Novoselov & Artem Mishchenko

doi:10.1038/nnano.2012.224

A tunnelling transistor based on stacks of chemically grown graphene and other two-dimensional layers shows record performance.

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Selective molecular sieving through porous graphene pp728 - 732

Steven P. Koenig, Luda Wang, John Pellegrino & J. Scott Bunch

doi:10.1038/nnano.2012.162

Selective molecular sieves can be created from porous, micrometre-sized graphene membranes using oxidative etching.

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Graphene coating makes carbon nanotube aerogels superelastic and resistant to fatigue pp562 - 566

Kyu Hun Kim, Youngseok Oh & M. F. Islam

doi:10.1038/nnano.2012.118

A mechanically fragile aerogel made of single-walled carbon nanotubes can be transformed into a superelastic material by coating it with graphene.

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Black phosphorus field-effect transistors pp372 - 377

Likai Li, Yijun Yu, Guo Jun Ye, Qingqin Ge, Xuedong Ou, Hua Wu, Donglai Feng, Xian Hui Chen & Yuanbo Zhang

doi:10.1038/nnano.2014.35

Field-effect transistors with good electrical performance at room temperature are fabricated from few-layer black phosphorus.

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Generating electricity by moving a droplet of ionic liquid along graphene pp378 - 383

Jun Yin, Xuemei Li, Jin Yu, Zhuhua Zhang, Jianxin Zhou & Wanlin Guo

doi:10.1038/nnano.2014.56

A voltage of a few millivolts can be generated by moving a droplet of ionic solution along a strip of monolayer graphene.

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Detecting the translocation of DNA through a nanopore using graphene nanoribbons pp939 - 945

F. Traversi, C. Raillon, S. M. Benameur, K. Liu, S. Khlybov, M. Tosun, D. Krasnozhon, A. Kis & A. Radenovic

doi:10.1038/nnano.2013.240

A solid-state nanopore can be integrated with a graphene nanoribbon transistor to create a sensor that can detect DNA molecules using both the ionic current and the electrical current in the graphene nanoribbon.

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Highly efficient gate-tunable photocurrent generation in vertical heterostructures of layered materials pp952 - 958

Woo Jong Yu, Yuan Liu, Hailong Zhou, Anxiang Yin, Zheng Li, Yu Huang & Xiangfeng Duan

doi:10.1038/nnano.2013.219

Efficient photocurrent generation, which can be tuned by the electric field of a gate to reach both high external and internal quantum efficiencies, is shown to occur in vertical heterostructures comprising graphene, MoS₂ and metals.

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Destructive extraction of phospholipids from Escherichia coli membranes by graphene nanosheets pp594 - 601

Yusong Tu, Min Lv, Peng Xiu, Tien Huynh, Meng Zhang, Matteo Castelli, Zengrong Liu, Qing Huang, Chunhai Fan, Haiping Fang & Ruhong Zhou

doi:10.1038/nnano.2013.125

Computer simulations reveal that graphene nanosheets damage bacteria by penetrating into or extracting phospholipids from the cell membranes, offering new insights into the molecular basis of graphene cytotoxicity.

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