graphene
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Move Over Graphene: The Wonder Conductor Of The Future May Be Stanene
When it comes to super materials, graphene seems to get all the attention. But a team of researchers has developed stanene: a single layer of tin atoms that could just be the world’s first material to conduct electricity with 100 per cent efficiency at the temperatures that computers work at.
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These New Graphene Supercapacitors Could Finally Power An Electric Car
A team of South Korean scientists has developed a new graphene supercapacitor that can store almost as much energy as a lithium-ion battery, but charge in only 16 seconds. This makes it an ideal material to store braking energy and could be exactly what the electric car industry needs.
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Dentists May Start Covering Teeth In Growth-Stimulating Diamond Dust
Looks like there’s a new candidate for most awesome supermaterial in town. Dentists may soon start fighting bone loss by covering our teeth in itty bitty nanodiamonds, making repairing teeth quicker, cheaper and much less painful.
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We Can Now Print Ultrafast Graphene Chips For Flexible Electronics
Futurists are always talking about how flexible electronics will change our lives in amazing ways, but we’ve yet to see anything mind-blowing come to market. A team of scientists from the University of Texas in Austin, however, think they’ve found the key to changing that: ultrafast graphene transistors printed on flexible plastic.