Technology update
Mar 7, 2008
Graphene continues to amaze
Is there anything that graphene—sheets of carbon just one atom thick — can’t do? Since this wonder material was disovered in 2004, it has been shown to be an extremely good electrical conductor; a semiconductor that can be used to create transistors; and a very strong material that could be used to make ultra thin membranes. Now, researchers in the US have confirmed that graphene is also a very good conductor of heat.
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