In microprocessors, Silicon may eventually be replaced with graphene, a material that is extremely difficult to work with until now!
Ivan Oleynik, one of the professors at the University of South Florida behind the discovery has claimed the first perfect atomic wires in graphine. Atomic wires are conductors of electricity and they are short chains of atoms that are difficult to achieve in materials like graphene.
Their solution is creating pentagonal and octagonal rings, which act as metal wires in an electric current, creating powerful electric currents that could reach speeds of 100GHz if applied in processor transistors.
Graphene is expected to be stable and implicated into many practical silicon and carbon based electronics.
Prepare for even smaller and faster electronics!
