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Graphene Week 2017 hosted a Women in Graphene session, part of the overarching Women in Graphene initiative set up by the Graphene Flagship to help support women and create a more gender diverse scientific community.

In the image above from the Graphene Week 2017 Opening Ceremony. Left to right: Aris Nasikas, Costas Galiotis, Thomas Skordas, Vincenzo Palermo, Wide Hogenhout.

PolyGraph developed a panel for seats in vehicles, comprising an epoxy resin containing graphene which provided improvement to the thermal, mechanical and electrical properties.

Gladiator is a partnering project of the Graphene Flagship, one of the Flagship Future and Emerging Technology Research Initiatives (FET Flagships).

In the image above one of the demonstrators on display at MEDICA, from Graphene Flagship partner Catalan Institute of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology (ICN2), will be a retinal implant which can serve as optical prostheses for people who have lost their sight.

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.