US President Joe Biden's administration remains committed to reopening a US consulate in Jerusalem, State Department spokesman Ned Price said on Tuesday.
He said the US will discuss the issue with Israelis and Palestinians.
Former US president Donald Trump moved Washington's Israel embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem in 2018, and shut down a separate facility in Jerusalem that served as a consulate for Palestinians.
Mr Biden, who defeated Mr Trump in 2020, pledged to reopen it, but no date has been set.
Israel has suggested such a mission should be outside Jerusalem in the occupied West Bank.
"There are a number of steps that have to go into the reopening of any diplomatic facility. As you know, there are some shall we say unique sensitivities to this particular facility," Mr Price said at a news briefing, rejecting any suggestion the consulate plan had been shelved.
"We are working through the issue with our Palestinian and Israeli partners," he said.
The Times of Israel, citing unidentified US and Palestinian officials, reported on Sunday that in lieu of reopening the facility, Washington was planning to appoint the top State Department diplomat for the region, Hady Amr, as a special envoy to the Palestinians.
But Mr Price, when asked about the report on Tuesday, said he did not have any personnel announcements to make.
What is graphene?
Graphene is a single layer of carbon atoms arranged like honeycomb.
It was discovered in 2004, when Russian-born Manchester scientists Andrei Geim and Kostya Novoselov were "playing about" with sticky tape and graphite - the material used as "lead" in pencils.
Placing the tape on the graphite and peeling it, they managed to rip off thin flakes of carbon. In the beginning they got flakes consisting of many layers of graphene. But as they repeated the process many times, the flakes got thinner.
By separating the graphite fragments repeatedly, they managed to create flakes that were just one atom thick. Their experiment had led to graphene being isolated for the very first time.
At the time, many believed it was impossible for such thin crystalline materials to be stable. But examined under a microscope, the material remained stable, and when tested was found to have incredible properties.
It is many times times stronger than steel, yet incredibly lightweight and flexible. It is electrically and thermally conductive but also transparent. The world's first 2D material, it is one million times thinner than the diameter of a single human hair.
But the 'sticky tape' method would not work on an industrial scale. Since then, scientists have been working on manufacturing graphene, to make use of its incredible properties.
In 2010, Geim and Novoselov were awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics. Their discovery meant physicists could study a new class of two-dimensional materials with unique properties.
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