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Researchers have made a breakthrough in graphene manufacturing that could lead to mass production of the wonder material.
Graphene – a crystalline form of graphite tipped as a building block for future processors and networking equipment – has until now proved difficult to produce.
Manufacturing graphene has been hampered because the way that films of the material are grown results in irregular-shaped graphene grains of different sizes that are difficult to work with.
The researchers discovered that changing the recipe to include more hydrogen in the process resulted in a more uniform sheet of graphene that could be used in components. The new method results in hexagonal grains that should mesh together neatly.
"Our findings are crucial for developing a method for growing ultra-large-scale single domain graphene that will constitute a major breakthrough toward graphene implementation in real-world devices," said research leader Ivan Vlassiouk, of the US Department of Energy’s National Laboratory
Read more: http://www.pcpro.co.uk/news/368755/breakthrough-could-push-graphene-into-mass-production
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cool stuff.