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What happened to graphene? A couple of years ago, that's all anyone talked about? I thought graphene was going to get us back on the exponential incline that is

What happened to graphene? A couple of years ago, that's all anyone talked about? I thought graphene was going to get us back on the exponential incline that is moore's law? I'm guessing the answer is no ( betteridge's law ) and we are going to stay in the multi-core environment for a while. 128, 256, 512, 1024, ... cores. Though I suspect that is going to run into problems very quickly.

wyoh 8y ago
Might be why: http://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/2018/10/11/graphene-you-dont-get-what-you-pay-for http://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/2018/10/11/gra...
amacbride 8y ago
“The only thing graphene can’t do is make it out of the lab.”
- amacbride 8y ago
  (I took the Stanford nanoscale materials science class this summer, and we all had a good laugh. Graphene is very interesting, but it’s subject to the hype cycle.)
cultofmetatron 8y ago
Progress is being made. The price of graphene has come down a lot in recent years. There's a new process by which you can coat a cd with graphite oxide and selectively burn paths of graphene with a LightScribe laser. At this point its pretty trivial to create flakes of graphene at home with some basic chemistry equipment. (enough to make your own 1 farad supercapacitor!) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t-LMZHIdwC8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t-LMZHIdwC8