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Researchers from the Graphene and 2D Materials Research and Innovation Centre and the Hydrogen and Carbon Dioxide Research and Innovation Centre at Khalifa University of Science and Technology are collaborating with their counterparts at the University of Manchester in the UK to develop a new device using graphene that aims to transform next-generation computing and hydrogen fuel cell technologies.
The results of the joint research showed the possibility of refining the properties of the graphene sheet based on electric fields so that the sheet can host currents of protons and electrons, paving the way for the development of a device that can serve both computer memory and logic functions.
The researchers published the results in a research paper titled “Control of proton transfer and hydrogenation in dipolar graphene” in the multidisciplinary scientific journal Nature.
Dr. Ahmed Al-Durrah, Senior Vice President for Research and Development at Khalifa University, stressed the importance of the university leading this study and cooperating across many disciplines to achieve this pioneering discovery, published in the journal Nature, which reflects the great developments in the applications of the material.
In turn, Marcelo Lozada-Hidalgo, lecturer and researcher at the Royal Society of the University of Manchester and scientific supervisor of this cooperation, said: “The global understanding of the link between the properties of electronic and ionic transport on polar surfaces in two-dimensional materials embodies a reference that can be used at different scientific levels, which “include the fields of physics, catalysis and surface science”.