{"id":12349,"date":"2013-04-25T10:15:30","date_gmt":"2013-04-25T08:15:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/?p=12349"},"modified":"2019-05-02T14:59:44","modified_gmt":"2019-05-02T12:59:44","slug":"french-researcher-from-cambridge-says-the-potential-of-graphene-huge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/2013\/04\/french-researcher-from-cambridge-says-the-potential-of-graphene-huge\/","title":{"rendered":"French Researcher from Cambridge says, \u201cThe Potential of Graphene is Huge”"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Photo credit: James Hedberg<\/a><\/p>\n

Bruno Dlubak, French associate researcher at Cambridge University, waits for me in Paris\u201914th\u00a0<\/sup>district near Montparnasse. His research is the forefront of Europe\u2019s most talked about idea since the Chanel Jacket, the fabrication of Graphene for commercial use.<\/p>\n

Enthusiasm from the Press<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Gizmodo<\/a><\/td>\nCan Cure foot odor<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Irish Times<\/a><\/td>\nGraphene Flagship = 1960s Man on the Moon Project<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Business Week<\/a><\/td>\nCan unlock new era of super-energy-efficient gadgets<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Technology Review<\/a><\/td>\nCan enhance our senses with superhuman abilities<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
TechCrunch<\/td>\nGraphene\u2014the solution to all the world\u2019s problems<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

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Implications for the European Tech Industry<\/b><\/p>\n

The University of Cambridge is using tax-payer money (up to\u00a0\u00a325 million<\/a>\u00a0from a previous investment of\u00a0\u00a360 million<\/a>) to fund research at the Cambridge Graphene Centre. In a similar fashion, the European Commission announced its plan to fuel its own Graphene research using\u00a01 Billion Euros<\/a>, the largest research grant ever recorded in history.<\/p>\n

Who sees the profit? European government bodies in collaboration with industrial and commercial partners aggressively promote the material\u2019s brand identity to dethrone Silicon Valley with \u201cGraphene Valley.\u201d Patented and produced in Manchester, UK, following the 2010 Nobel Prize in Physics, Graphene has initiated a worldwide race to fabricate and attain profits- evident from the\u00a07,000\u00a0<\/a>patents around the world. China is in the lead with\u00a02,204<\/a>, and over\u00a0100<\/a>\u00a0from IBM. CRANN, based in Ireland will be the Irish Scientific Research hub for the EU\u2019s commission on graphene research which will involve\u00a0126 researchers<\/a>\u00a0from 17 countries.<\/p>\n

The Top Goals of Graphene Research: Nanoelectronics<\/b><\/p>\n

Today\u2019s computer models rely on the displacement of a charge carrier, which demands more energy and releases more heat than simply spinning a massless electron.<\/p>\n

This field of research is called spintronics.\u00a0It has been recorded that the energy released from electron spin transport generates less heat than a silicon-based semiconductors and at room-temperature. This means that\u00a0electron spin states on a monolayer of graphene can store and process more data for computers, mobile phones and other electronic processing systems.<\/p>\n

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The Major Obstacles Delaying Commercial Use of Graphene<\/b><\/p>\n

The structure of graphene electrons have additional properties- they can behave like relativistic particles that you don\u2019t find in most materials. Silicon electrons are not relativistic. The Klein Paradox reveals that Graphene introduced new properties for electronics, which can offer new and limitless possibilities.\u00a0Even if it is extremely thin (1-atom thick), it still is\u00a0impermeable to gases and thus noncorrosive.<\/p>\n

Bruno\u2019s work has evolved from using laboratory techniques like exfoliation to CVD, \u201cChemical Vador Deposition.\u201d\u00a0 Using a metal substrate, graphene binds and \u201cgrows\u201d upon a surface. This may as well be the Henry Ford Automobile Assembly Line but for graphene materials. The research is in part a collaboration with Philips and Aixtron, two companies with high ambitions to flood the market with graphene light devices to flexible mobile phones.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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