Graphene: The Silver Lining for Cloud Computing?
May 31, 2014
Grazed from SysConMedia. Author: Editorial Staff.
The new wonder metal, graphene, is being looked at as a building block for communications and electronic devices on the level of what the transistor was sixty years ago.
Graphene is a one-atom thick, mesh-like (think hexagonal honeycomb or chicken wire), semi metal that will add more battery-life into a smartphone among other breakthrough ideas like bendable displays. It is also ten times stronger than diamonds so its resiliency is perfect for use in a smartphone or any other device that requires super-ruggedness…
Is this a new miracle micro-metal or film that will become a universal coating for many devices? It will definitely become a building block for next-generation communication devices as well as quick-charge batteries. IBM has already tested it in a computer chip and it runs 10,000 faster than previous chips with graphene added to them. In the past, graphene has been hard to mass-produce, but that is being worked on by Samsung…
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