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+-   Researchers Create Graphite Memory 10 Atoms Thick-> on Thursday December 18 2008, @02:46PM CWmike

Submitted by CWmike on Thursday December 18 2008, @02:46PM
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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."
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