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​After a long summer of hard work in the laboratories, researchers in the Graphene Flagship are ready for two experiments this week, testing graphene technologies for space-related applications in collaboration with the European Space Agency (ESA).

Burcu Saner Okan (Sabanci University, Turkey) presented work on obtaining recycled graphene from alternative sources at the Graphene Week Innovation Forum

Emilie Klecha speaking at the Graphene Week 2017 Women In Graphene session

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.