Graphene solutions?

[digitalwanderer]

It was being discussed in the wrong thread, but it interested me and then I ran across this article about it this morning so I followed the wise advise of moderation and started a new thread for it.

Apparently "it costs too much" seems to be the big answer to why it's not in use.

 

[Kaotik]

That's one, but also we're not yet where silicon would be too "big" to work with. Granted, don't think anyone has yet announced under "1nm class" process, but that shouldn't be the limit for silicon anyway and the "naming nanometers" don't really have anything to do with real measurements of any feature of the process.

 

[arandomguy]

I believe there's more to it than just scaling commercial production of graphene itself but also in a form usable as a semiconductor replacement for silicon.

Engineered Bandgap Pushes Graphene Closer to Displacing Silicon

A new method for engineering a bandgap into graphene maintains its attractive electronic properties

spectrum.ieee.org

Incredible new graphene breakthrough could make computers 'thousands of times faster'

A new research study details how manipulating graphene could pave the way for incredibly tiny microchip designs. Researchers from the University of Sussex believe the …

bgr.com

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S259012302200144X

 

[nutball]

So to quote somebody else

"Graphene, the wonder material that can do anything apart from escape from the lab"

It's the perfect fit for the next generation of nuclear fusion reactors.