It’s called “graphene”, and it’s both the strongest and thinnest material (literally just one atom thick) known to man – and it’s being used in Callaway’s new Chrome Soft balls. Dr Alan Hocknell, Senior Vice President of Research and Development at Callaway Golf, told us: “We looked at various parts of the …
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Graphene 3D Lab Receives $1.2 million in Warrant Proceeds
Calverton, NY / TheNewswire / Graphene 3D Lab Inc. (the “Company” or “Graphene”) today announces that it has received a gross proceed of $1,246,051 from the exercise of 10,383,760 warrants. On November 20, 2017 the Company announced its intention to reprice 11,360,350 warrants to $0.12.
Running shoes get a graphene boost
British outdoor brand Inov-8 claims to be the first company to incorporate graphene into running and fitness shoes. The Descente-owned company has partnered with the National Graphene Institute at The University of Manchester on its G-Series footwear line. According to Inov-8 the new shoes are …
Photon-friendly graphene membranes mimic photosynthesis to produce hydrogen
Researchers at Manchester University have discovered that the rate at which graphene conducts protons increases 10 fold when it is illuminated with sunlight. Dubbed the “photo-proton” effect, the finding could lead to graphene membranes being used to produce hydrogen from artificial photosynthesis, …
Callaway Launches New Chrome Soft and Chrome Soft X Golf Balls
Callaway has unveiled its new Chrome Soft and Chrome Soft X Golf Balls for 2018, which feature Dual SoftFast cores that include revolutionary space-age graphene, notably the strongest and thinnest possible material known to man. Graphene, 200 times stronger than steel but flexible enough to be …
Callaway Officially Introduces Chrome Soft And Chrome Soft X Golf Balls
“We’ve innovated at every layer, starting with our groundbreaking new Graphene Dual SoftFast Core,” said Dr. Alan Hocknell, SVP, R&D, Callaway Golf. “The result is an extremely fast and soft-feeling ball that promotes high-launch and low spin off the tee for long distance, and incredible shot-stopping …
Newly released Callaway balls feature 'strongest material in the world'
The biggest challenge in designing a golf ball is satisfying the contradictory desires of a player. How do you make a ball that launches high and doesn’t spin off the tee but sits soft and DOES spin on shots around the green? According to Callaway, the answer lies in graphene, a strong, flexible …
Proton transport in graphene shows promise for renewable energy
To find out how light affects the behaviour of protons permeating through the carbon sheet, a team led by Dr. Marcelo Lozada-Hidalgo and Professor Sir Andre Geim fabricated pristine graphene membranes and decorated them on one side with platinum nanoparticles. The Manchester scientists were …
Engineers develop flexible, water-repellent graphene circuits for washable electronics
“We’re taking low-cost, inkjet-printed graphene and tuning it with a laser to make functional materials,” said Jonathan Claussen, an Iowa State University assistant professor of mechanical engineering, an associate of the U.S. Department of Energy’s Ames Laboratory and the corresponding author of the …
DIY Graphene Putty Makes Super Sensitive Sensor
It is sort of an electronics rule 34 that if something occurs, someone needs to sense it. [Bblorgggg], for reasons that aren’t immediately obvious, needs to sense ants moving over trees. No kidding. How are you going to do that? His answer was to use graphene. Actually, his super sensitive sensors mix …