South Korean scientists get one step closer to graphene-based gadgets
By Darren Murph 
posted Jan 16th 2009 10:07PM
posted Jan 16th 2009 10:07PM
Graphene-based gadgets are coming, we just know it. Trouble is, we're still a long, long ways away. That said, a team of South Korean scientists are bringing us ever closer to bendable, durable gizmos by creating a graphene film with a diameter of 10 centimeters by "adopting a conventional chemical vapor deposition (CVD) technique." Furthermore, the crew's development of what's being called the "world's first circuit patterning technology for the graphene film has the potential to replace silicon-based semiconductors." If this is just way too heavy for your mind to digest on a Friday, here's the skinny: the newfangled manufacturing process has, for all intents and purposes, overcome the limitations of graphene, which could not be made large enough for commercial applications in the past. [Image courtesy of ScienceFriday, thanks Agustin]
gadges
Gadges? Gadges??? We don't need no stinkin' gadges!!!!!
Even more sad is when you can't spell gadgets and your site name is enGADGET!!
...but it got your attention.
Very wise...
There is a very interesting disease, that infects most of us. the infected people just can't help laughing at failures wherever, whenever they sees one. They laugh at people falling on YouTube, they laugh at public figure's blunders, they laugh at people's limited knowledge on things they're not familiar with, they laugh at people who made predictions that later proved wrong, they laugh at typos and misspellings, and vote up comments that is so brilliantly nailed one.
It is a mindborne disease, and the only cure is inside their mind too, only, I guess, they just can't stand this boring world to get this funny disease cured.
Wow like_a_glove, you're deep as a puddle.
we don't need no gadges let the mother f***er burn!
Burn mother f***er, burn!
gadge in FF spellcheck:
gadget, cadge, badge, wadge, Madge.
The moral of the story? Graphene will make EVERYTHING awesome.
badgers?
mushroom! MUSHROOM!
badges...
Badges? Badges? We don't need no stinkin' badges!
I apologize for my obscene username, its actually something else, I remember changing my aim displayname as a joke to a friend many years ago and I've no clue why it's showing up.
What i dont get is why you still decided to post that message then
*sigh* alas, one silly spelling mistake obscures a discovery that could change the computing world as we know it
I, too apoligize for my obscure username.....
Too funny!
so, since these have no silicone could you say goodbye to "Sand in your gadge"?
Clever....
If we take the number of comments on this article, and compare it with the number of comments relevant to the topic we can conclude that nobody got this.
And please, no difficult stuff like this on Fridays. I read Engadget for simple, quick, brainless entertainment.
"I read Engadget for simple, quick, brainless entertainment."
Isn't that what Gizmodo is for?
I always thought of graphene being rigidly flat - hence two-d; but the graphic shows that even on a very small scale it has some flexibility. Any physics pros out there to clear this up?
vapor deposition (CVD) technique......Right now, I'm just reading that as "vaporware blah blah blah". Srsly though, graphene will be sweet.
Come on, come on, hurry up.
this is a technique for mass production of the material. being able to do so makes it viable for commercial use, so people like us get to lay our hands on things like : eg the Nokia Morph = a bracelet phone, whole surface is morphable, coz the material can be conducive as well.
Instead of linking in such articles to a search of the tag 'graphene' (in this example) you should simply link to wikipedia, or even google, oh excuse me, AOL search.
Those tag links are quite pointless at such times I found over the time that I visited engadget.
Not only gadgets, this enables doing solar panels without tantalum oxide fron layer. Saves gorillas