Remember how graphene , the single - atom duncical stratum of atomic number 6 was so slick it was go to deepen everything ? Well it looks likesilicene is hereto steal the spot . Researchers have just made the first sheet of single - atom thickset Si .
Silicene has been a work in progress for years , but they consider they ’ve finally got it down now , and it represent a tremendous breakthrough . Graphene is awesome , but it ’s proven a act tricky to work it into element . Because silicene is made of atomic number 14 , which most chips are already made of , the desegregation process could be much simpler .
Patrick Vogt of Berlin ’s Technical University in Germany , along side researchers at Aix - Marseille University in France managed to create silicene by distill silicon vapor onto a silver plate to organise a undivided layer of speck . They then tested the weather sheet and find that it closely match the properties silicene was theorize to show . The next ( challenging ) step will be to raise silicene on insulate substrates so that it can be in full tested and evaluated for potential future uses in electronics . Looking forward to see what they do with this stuff . [ New Scientist ]
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