{"id":581143,"date":"2019-02-19T10:19:17","date_gmt":"2019-02-19T14:19:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?guid=510fe0a160c18e90e7f24767187400d3"},"modified":"2019-02-19T10:19:17","modified_gmt":"2019-02-19T14:19:17","slug":"breakthrough-in-the-search-for-graphene-based-electronics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=581143","title":{"rendered":"Breakthrough in the search for graphene-based electronics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For 15 years, scientists have tried to exploit the &#8220;miracle material&#8221; graphene to produce nanoscale electronics. On paper, graphene should be great for just that: it is ultra-thin\u2014only one atom thick and therefore two-dimensional, it is excellent for conducting electrical current, and holds great promise for future forms of electronics that are faster and more energy efficient. In addition, graphene consists of carbon atoms \u2013 of which we have an unlimited supply.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For 15 years, scientists have tried to exploit the &#8220;miracle material&#8221; graphene to produce nanoscale electronics. On paper, graphene should be great for just that: it is ultra-thin&mdash;only one atom thick and therefore two-dimensional, it is excellent for conducting electrical current, and holds great promise for future forms of electronics that are faster and more energy efficient. In addition, graphene consists of carbon atoms &ndash; of which we have an unlimited supply.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-581143","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/581143","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=581143"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/581143\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":581144,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/581143\/revisions\/581144"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=581143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=581143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=581143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}