{"id":506884,"date":"2010-04-02T18:34:38","date_gmt":"2010-04-02T22:34:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cleantechnica.com\/?p=7827"},"modified":"2010-04-02T18:34:38","modified_gmt":"2010-04-02T22:34:38","slug":"big-news-from-the-nano-world-of-graphene-means-new-life-for-moore%e2%80%99s-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/506884","title":{"rendered":"Big News from the Nano-World of Graphene Means New Life for Moore\u2019s Law"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-7848\" href=\"http:\/\/cleantechnica.com\/2010\/04\/02\/big-news-from-the-nano-world-of-graphene-means-new-life-for-moores-law\/new-graphene-breakthrough\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7848\" title=\"new graphene breakthrough\" src=\"http:\/\/go635254.s3.amazonaws.com\/cleantechnica\/files\/2010\/04\/new-graphene-breakthrough.jpg\" alt=\"Researchers at the University of South Florida manipulate graphene sheets to produce one dimensional nanowires\" width=\"500\" height=\"313\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Almost 50 years ago, Intel co-founder Gordon E. Moore came up with a little idea called <a title=\"Moore's Law on wikipedia.org\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Moore%27s_law\" >Moore&#8217;s Law<\/a>, which basically says that computer processors roughly double in efficiency every two years due to advances in technology along with affordability.\u00a0 So how much smaller, faster and cheaper can computers go?\u00a0 Lots, if <a title=\"cleantechnica.com article\" href=\"http:\/\/cleantechnica.com\/2009\/06\/26\/graphene-emerging-as-the-miracle-material-of-the-new-millenium\/\" >graphene<\/a>, the <a title=\"nano.gov website\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nano.gov\/\" >nanomaterial<\/a> of the new millennium, has anything to say about that.<\/p>\n<p>Discovered just a few years ago, graphene is only the thickness of one atom but it scores on strength and it can function as a conductor.\u00a0 One difficulty to overcome, though, is manipulating &#8220;raw&#8221; graphene on an atomic level to create a useful material. \u00a0 With support from the National Science Foundation, researchers at <a title=\"usf website\" href=\"http:\/\/shell.cas.usf.edu\/~mbatzill\/\" >the University of South Florida<\/a> have accomplished a breakthrough of sorts by developing a way to form precise <a title=\"nsf.gov press release\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nsf.gov\/news\/news_summ.jsp?cntn_id=116705&amp;WT.mc_id=USNSF_51&amp;WT.mc_ev=click\" >graphene &#8220;nanowires&#8221;<\/a> that are just a few atoms across.<\/p>\n<h3> <a href=\"http:\/\/cleantechnica.com\/2010\/04\/02\/big-news-from-the-nano-world-of-graphene-means-new-life-for-moores-law\/#more-7827\" class=\"more-link\">(more&#8230;)<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Almost 50 years ago, Intel co-founder Gordon E. Moore came up with a little idea called Moore&#8217;s Law, which basically says that computer processors roughly double in efficiency every two years due to advances in technology along with affordability.\u00a0 So how much smaller, faster and cheaper can computers go?\u00a0 Lots, if graphene, the nanomaterial of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6399,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-506884","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/506884","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6399"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=506884"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/506884\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=506884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=506884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=506884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}