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March 17, 2014

Can material rivaling graphene be mined out of rocks
Warsaw, Poland (SPX) Mar 16, 2014
Will one-atom-thick layers of molybdenum disulfide, a compound that occurs naturally in rocks, prove to be better than graphene for electronic applications? There are many signs that might prove to be the case. But physicists from the Faculty of Physics at the University of Warsaw have shown that the nature of the phenomena occurring in layered materials are still ill-understood and require further research. Graphene has already been hailed as the future of electronics. Built of six-atom carbon ri ... read more

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