Graphene Sheets Get Easier To Manufacture

grunaura writes "South Korean researchers have devised a way to create graphene sheets one centimeter square using a hydrocarbon vapor on heated nickel. It's touted as being more efficient than the current process where graphene sheets are pressed, and there is evidence that 'the quality of graphene grown by chemical vapour deposition is as high as mechanically cleaved graphene.' Graphene is relatively new, but not to Slashdot. This round of news highlighting the technology focuses on the bendable nature of graphene sheets, as opposed to the memory applications or capacitive properties discussed here previously. These films are the closest we have come to superconductors at room temperature."

Comments

Atomic-scale chickens

[morgan_greywolf]

Now we just need to make some atomic-scale chickens...

Re:Atomic-scale chickens

[DirtySouthAfrican]

You'd have to watch for atomic scale foxes, which will tunnel right through to your chickens.

Re:Sell copper stocks?

[Inner_Child]

Okay, so it's not cost effective. Target audiophiles! You'll still make a profit, and they'll claim it's awesome so they don't look like an ass for dropping insane amounts of money for cables.

Re:Sell copper stocks?

[jmerlin]

hey.. i heard that

Re:There are MANY more applications!

[MegaThawt]

The only way graphine sheets would allow me to "easily drive from Seattle to Los Angeles without stopping" is if they could also be used as a, um, ya know ... incontinence product.

Re:There are MANY more applications!

[Ihmhi]

Space elevator, anyone?

So you're saying we could build these capacitors, overload them, and use the resultant explosion to propel objects into space along an elevator? BRILLIANT!