Wires 3 atoms wide and 1 atom thick have been constructed from monolayers perfected in the lab at Vanderbilt U by PhD candidate Junhao Lin. This means in a few tech generations, apps with paper thin and bendable screens for computers, television, movies, you name it. And because monolayers offer the world’s most conductive medium, only our imaginations limit other applications. http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/04/30/grad_student_creates_worlds_thinnest_wires_just_three_atoms_wide/
So what’s a monolayer, most of us might wonder. Answer: A monolayer is a slab of material just one atom thick. Obvious next question: How does anyone make a monolayer? Not so obvious answer: Mix either of two metals, molybdenum or tungsten, with either of two other substances, sulfur or selenium, and through a beam of electrons focus transition-metal dichalcogenides to create one atom layer substance. Read more from the original paper published in Nature.
Analysts at HamiltonFinanceServices.com predict new disruptive technologies from monolayers using Junhao Lin’s technique can and will shift all digital devices known today and those yet unknown onto a quantum level higher than anything seen today. What do you think?
