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[–] [email protected] 16 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Crazy that it's transparent. I wonder how thick that wafer is.

Also awesome:

we're using properties of electrons that are not accessible to silicon

[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago (1 children)

If it's a single sheet of graphene.... about 1.5 angstrom thick.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago (1 children)

How does he not cut himself while holding it?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

They don't make big pieces or graphene like that. It's made as a layer of graphene on some other material. Pure graphene flakes are tiny AFAIK.