Supersonic Spray (IMAGE)

University of Illinois Chicago

Supersonic Spray

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Using a supersonic spray, graphene flakes with deformed pentagonal and heptagonal structures stretch on impact and spring into a perfect hexagonal graphene lattice. This opens the way to scale up from the microscopic to large scale applications.

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Photo credit: Suman Sinha-Ray

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