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Eager to dye your hair with 'nontoxic' graphene nanoparticles? Not so fast!

  • Written by Andrew Maynard, Director, Risk Innovation Lab, Arizona State University
Subbing new risks for the current dyes’ dangers?Evgeny Savchenko/Shutterstock.com

Graphene is something of a celebrity in the world of nanoscale materials. Isolated in 2004 by Nobel Prize winners Andre Geim and Konstantin Novoselov, these ultrathin sheets of carbon atoms are already finding novel uses in areas like electronics, high-efficiency...

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