Graphene
PRODUCTION OF GRAPHENE IN SPAIN
What is Graphene?
Graphene is just a one atom thick layer basically an allotrope of carbon in the structure of the sp2 bonded atoms with a molecular bond length of 0.142 nanometers and interplanar spacing of 0.335 nanometers.
This makes it as the thinnest compound known to man. It is transparent and flexible and has unique features such as a best conductor of electricity beating silver and copper studies have shown electron mobility
Graphene
at values of more than 15,000 cm2·V−1·s−1), and best conductor of heat at room
temperature (at (4.84±0.44) × 103 to (5.30±0.48) × 103 W·m−1·K−1) . It is the stiffest material known, chemically inert and biocompatible, can be stretched reversibly much more than other systems, and has electrons inside which behave in a similar manner to relativistic energy elementary particles. Other characteristics are it has unique levels of light absorption at πα ≈ 2.3% of white light, and its potential suitability for use in spin transport. (Fuente, 2013)
Graphene was discovered by Andrei Geim and Konstantin Novoselov of the Manchester
University in 2003 and was published on 2004. They won the Nobel Prize in Physics on 2010 because of their ground-breaking discovery. Scientists consider this material as a new breakthrough in the century,
second after the discovery of plastic but is considered to be the revolutionary material of the coming generation. What are the applications of graphene?
The unique features of graphene have astonished the commercial and research industries because of the possible limitless functions they can contribute to the society.
Hard drives that can store 1,000 times more information.
Semiconductors on which ultra-fast computers of the future will be based (replacing silicone).
Flexible (rollable and foldable) and extremely thin screens, which can be used as basis for producing a range of devices such as cellphones, laptops,
What is Graphene?
Graphene is just a one atom thick layer basically an allotrope of carbon in the structure of the sp2 bonded atoms with a molecular bond length of 0.142 nanometers and interplanar spacing of 0.335 nanometers.
This makes it as the thinnest compound known to man. It is transparent and flexible and has unique features such as a best conductor of electricity beating silver and copper studies have shown electron mobility
Graphene
at values of more than 15,000 cm2·V−1·s−1), and best conductor of heat at room
temperature (at (4.84±0.44) × 103 to (5.30±0.48) × 103 W·m−1·K−1) . It is the stiffest material known, chemically inert and biocompatible, can be stretched reversibly much more than other systems, and has electrons inside which behave in a similar manner to relativistic energy elementary particles. Other characteristics are it has unique levels of light absorption at πα ≈ 2.3% of white light, and its potential suitability for use in spin transport. (Fuente, 2013)
Graphene was discovered by Andrei Geim and Konstantin Novoselov of the Manchester
University in 2003 and was published on 2004. They won the Nobel Prize in Physics on 2010 because of their ground-breaking discovery. Scientists consider this material as a new breakthrough in the century,
second after the discovery of plastic but is considered to be the revolutionary material of the coming generation. What are the applications of graphene?
The unique features of graphene have astonished the commercial and research industries because of the possible limitless functions they can contribute to the society.
Hard drives that can store 1,000 times more information.
Semiconductors on which ultra-fast computers of the future will be based (replacing silicone).
Flexible (rollable and foldable) and extremely thin screens, which can be used as basis for producing a range of devices such as cellphones, laptops,
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