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Graphene Photodetectors Set Speed Record
Fast Photodetector Device.

Graphene Flagship Engages with Industry at Composites Europe
The Graphene Flagship’s exhibition stand at Composites Europe showcased several different prototypes of graphene technologies. Alongside Graphene Connect, this exhibition was a great opportunity for the Graphene Flagship to promote engagement from industry all along the value chain.

Spotlight Luca Banszerus

Graphene Additives improves Industrial Scale Resins

Graphene enables fully flexible NFC Antennas
As well as being the thinnest, strongest and lightest known material, graphene is flexible, impermeable and extremely electrically and thermally conductive. All properties well suited for next generation NFC antennas.

Flying start for world's first graphene enhanced aircraft

Graphene shows promise for composite applications
Under the umbrella of the Graphene Flagship, a number of partners are exhibiting products and prototypes at the Composites Europe 2016 trade fair in Düsseldorf.

SCOPE Project Consortium Announced
The European Science Foundation (ESF), l’Ecole polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland, and the Spanish Foundation for Science and Technology (FECYT) have been selected as consortium partners for the EU-funded SCOPE project.

Graphene Motorcycle Helmet
Graphene gives significant benefits to a new commercial product – a motorcycle helmet – launched on October 8, 2016 following a collaboration between the Graphene Flagship partner IIT and Italian design company Momodesign. Photo: Momodesign and IIT

Graphene balloons show their colors
Image: Artist's impression of graphene balloons showing colors. Under large deformations, Newton rings appear.

Mobility Grant to US
Luca Banszerus, PhD Student at RWTH Aachen University is the first receiver of a Graphene Flagship Mobility Grant to the US. He will stay for six months at the lab of Professor Philip Kim at Harvard University.

European Commission Lessons Learned

Transatlantic Collaborations Catalysed at EU–US Workshop
The EU-US workshop involved more that 120 people from across Europe and the US, working in all aspects of materials synthesis, devices and more.

Free online course on graphene
The free online course Graphene Science and Technology, developed by Graphene Flagship partner and coordinator Chalmers University of Technology, is starting 31 October.