Graphene, and its nano-scale dimensions, could be leveraged to design the smallest microchips yet
Researchers unlocked the electronic properties of graphene by folding the material like origami paper.
Graphene strips folded in similar fashion to origami paper could be used to build microchips that are up to 100 times smaller than conventional chips, found physicists – and packing phones and laptops with those tiny chips could significantly boost the performance of our devices.
New research from the University of Sussex in the UK shows that changing the structure of nanomaterials like graphene can unlock electronic properties and effectively enable the material to act like a transistor.
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