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The Graphene Flagship spotlight series tells the stories behind the research. Emre Ozan Polat is a postdoctoral researcher at ICFO (The Institute of Photonic Sciences, Spain) and is part of the team that created a graphene-quantum dots health-tracking medical patch.

The Graphene Flagship's international workshops aim to promote stong global links in graphene research. The third US-EU workshop will take place 23-25 October.

Using CMOS-compatible techniques, Flagship researchers from AMO have created photodetectors with a record-breaking bandwidth of >76 GHz, ideal for fast data communications.

Image above represententing the Hofstadter Butterfly Phenomenon.

Natural spider silk has excellent mechanical properties. Researchers from the Graphene Flagship have found a way to boost the strength of spider’s silk using graphene-based materials, paving the way for a novel class of high-performance bionic composites.

Printable graphene inks enable ultrafast lasers in the terahertz range.

The first EU-China workshop, held in Beijing 29 June - 2 July 2017, provided an opportunity for researchers from Europe and China to communicate recent developments and setup future collaborations on graphene and related materials.

The second EU-Japan meeting, held in Barcelona during 6-8 May 2017, was an opportunity for graphene researchers from Europe and Japan to meet and discuss shared research questions and explore collaboration opportunities.

A layer-by-layer schematic (above) and an optical microscopic picture (below) of a graphene and boron nitride heterostructure device which shows unprecedented spin transport efficiency at room temperature. Credit: M. Gurram, S. Omar and B.J. van Wees, University of Groningen.

Founding members of the Aachen Graphene & 2D-Materials Center at the Kick-Off Meeting.