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January 17, 2013

New Research Gives Insight into Graphene Grain Boundaries
Chicago IL (SPX) Jan 17, 2013
Using graphene - either as an alternative to, or most likely as a complementary material with - silicon, offers the promise of much faster future electronics, along with several other advantages over the commonly used semiconductor. However, creating the one-atom thick sheets of carbon known as graphene in a way that could be easily integrated into mass production methods has proven difficult. When graphene is grown, lattices of the carbon grains are formed randomly, linked together at different a ... read more

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