Wednesday, November 17, 2010

Graphene Can Be Made With Table Sugar

Posted by timothy on Wednesday November 17, @02:52AM
from the let's-grid-it-on dept.
Zothecula writes with this snippet from Gizmag:"There's no doubt that the discovery of graphene is one sweet breakthrough. The remarkable material offers everything from faster, cooler electronics and cheaper lithium-ion batteries to faster DNA sequencing and single-atom transistors. Researchers at Rice University have made graphene even sweeter by developing a way to make pristine sheets of the one-atom-thick form of carbon from plain table sugar and other carbon-based substances. In another plus, the one-step process takes place at temperatures low enough to make the wonder material easy to manufacture."

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