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Graphene Can Be Made With Table Sugar
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."
Does that mean in a few years we will start seeing very cheap pcs, for 100$ for the whole thing, god i think we paid enough over the years, we could enjoy some cheaply made pcs! When I think back at a time when I had paid nearly 5k$ american for top of the line laptop for work,school to program, and see the same model today at 200$, i got to say, I am crying on the inside.
Never again will i spend even 300$ for a pc or laptop, i will stick to around 200$ range, even if it has to be a bit used, the turn over period is getting too small these days to even consider spending more the that.