Researchers Create Graphite Memory 10 Atoms Thick 135
CWmike writes "Researchers at Rice University have demonstrated a new data storage medium made out of a layer of graphite only 10 atoms thick. The technology could potentially provide many times the capacity of current flash memory and withstand temperatures of 200 degrees Celsius and radiation that would make solid-state disk memory disintegrate. 'Though we grow it from the vapor phase, this material [graphene] is just like graphite in a pencil. You slide these right off the end of your pencil onto paper. If you were to place Scotch tape over it and pull up, you can sometimes pull up as small as one sheet of graphene. It is a little under 1 nanometer thick,' Professor James Tour said."
Pessimists? (Score:5, Funny)
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Re:piss (Score:3, Funny)
Budweiser?
Who needs new graphite memory? (Score:5, Funny)
You slide these right off the end of your pencil onto paper.
You know, pencils make pretty good r/w memory, too, although the number of r/w cycles is limited.
So.... (Score:5, Funny)
no more microwaving your hard drive to aid in data destruction.
Graphene for write-only memory (Score:5, Funny)
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Graphene balloons (Score:2, Funny)
Vaporware (Score:5, Funny)
"...we grow it from the vapor phase..."
Literally, vaporware.
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Re:Finally.. (Score:5, Funny)
Compression.
You fold the paper in half, and then tape the ends. Voila! Same information, half the size!
I guess soon (Score:5, Funny)
the RIAA et al will be wanting royalties off every pencil sold and Canada will have a pencil tax?
Re:So.... (Score:5, Funny)
I'm pretty sure that microwaving your hard drive only aids in microwave destruction.
Re:Finally.. (Score:3, Funny)
Re:So if I cons up an 11 atom list ... (Score:2, Funny)
You're doing it wrong, you should have counted from zero.
Re:10 Atoms thick? (Score:3, Funny)
Which is why everything should be measured in Libraries of Congress.
Re:Finally.. (Score:4, Funny)
(Also, about 37 foldings of it would make the paper so high to reach the moon).
No problem. Just bend the resulting column in half 37 times.
ONCE AND FOR ALL!
Re:Pessimists? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Space Exploration (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Who needs new graphite memory? (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Finally.. (Score:4, Funny)
Every time you use an unspecified unit as the base in an exponential function, baby Newton cries.
Re:Pessimists? (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Who needs new graphite memory? (Score:5, Funny)
You know, pencils make pretty good r/w memory, too, although the number of r/w cycles is limited.
Please explain to me how my pencil can do the read part of r/w memory.
Well look at you, you're all the fun at parties, aren't you?
Finally... (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Pessimists? (Score:5, Funny)
When cornered into a room by ninjas with nothing separating you from them but a door of wood, yes, thicker is better, but you will die regardless.
Re:How would you dispose of such a thing? (Score:3, Funny)
Not really, you'll just need to try and take a very important test with it.. it'll break almost immediately..
Re:Ninjas? (Score:5, Funny)
When cornered into a room by ninjas with nothing separating you from them but a door of wood, yes, thicker is better, but you will die regardless.
I think you are confusing ninjas with zombies, zombies have thick wood door shredding powers while a ninja is already in the room with you.
Re:Pessimists? (Score:4, Funny)
I'm not sure thicker is better. I remember hearing that churches in northern England replaced their super-thick oak doors with thinner planks riveted together in a cross-ply design, as this provided better protection against the axes of marauding Vikings.
Of course, Ninjas are a different proposition, and five minutes googling gives me no citation for the monastic plywood theory, so perhaps direct experiment is the only way to settle this one - just make sure you have plenty of emergency Pirates on hand for back-up and it should be safe enough.
It doesn't matter - Moore's Law ended this week. (Score:2, Funny)
Get over it. There will be no faster computers now that the US Govt has bailed out the DRAM industry. Innovation like this is illegal!