An article featuring Joseph Cohen’s artwork mentions that was created at Rice using laser-induced graphene, a technique pioneered by James Tour, the T.T. and W.F. Chao Chair in Chemistry and a professor of computer science and of materials science and nanoengineering. Bruce Weisman, professor of chemistry, materials science and nanoengineering; Paul Cherukuri, executive director of the BioScience Research Collaborative; and alumnus Daniel Heller are mentioned.

(Nanowerk News) When you read about electrifying art, “electrifying” isn’t usually a verb. But an artist working with a Rice University lab is in fact making artwork that can deliver a jolt.

The Rice lab of chemist James Tour introduced laser-induced graphene (LIG) to the world in 2014, and now the researchers are making art with the technique, which involves converting carbon in a common polymer or other material into microscopic flakes of graphene.

Nanowerk (This article also appeared in Phys.org.)

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