Straintronics: Engineers create piezoelectric graphene

Abstract:
By depositing atoms on one side of a grid of the "miracle material" graphene, researchers at Stanford have engineered piezoelectricity into a nanoscale material for the first time. The implications could yield dramatic degree of control in nanotechnology.

Straintronics: Engineers create piezoelectric graphene Stanford, CA | Posted on March 21st, 2012

By Andrew Myers

In what became known as the Scotch tape technique," researchers first extracted graphene with a piece of adhesive in 2004. Graphene is a single layer of carbon atoms arranged in a honeycomb, hexagonal pattern. It looks like chicken wire.

Graphene is a wonder material. It is a one-hundred-times-better conductor of electricity than silicon. It is stronger


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