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Hopefully someone more up to speed can correct me/chinme in. As I understand it. It's the cost/difficulty of production of quality graphene structures. Lake an
by gloverkcn 13y ago
Hopefully someone more up to speed can correct me/chinme in.
As I understand it. It's the cost/difficulty of production of quality graphene structures.
Lake anything else (carbon fibers, semi-conductors) the cost of production starts very high and is only cost effective in specific targeted use cases. For example, Graphene is currently used in equipment in DNA Labs.
As companies develop better manufacturing techniques you get high cost corporate and high income early adopter products like the Samsung flex display.
Over the next 20 to 40 years manufacturing it will get cheaper, and as manufacturing equipment for graphene starts being readily available you'll see grapheme start showing up everywhere. It'll get to the point where it's in everything but nobody talks about it. Everything will continue to get smaller and/or more efficient.
- vonnik 13y agoYou're right. The reason by the NYT is excited about it now is that Samsung recently announced a "breakthrough" in manufacturing which lowers the costs: http://venturebeat.com/2014/04/04/samsung-claims-a-graphene-breakthough-which-may-be-huge-for-future-wearables/ http://venturebeat.com/2014/04/04/samsung-claims-a-graphene-... The article's not new, but the NYT isn't in the business of tech scoops.