The latest news from academia, regulators research labs and
other things of interest Posted: March 1, 2010 Novel graphene
hybrid exciting for materials scientists (Nanowerk News) Rice
University researchers have found a way to stitch graphene and
hexagonal boron nitride (h-BN) into a two-dimensional quilt that
offers new paths of exploration for materials scientists. The
technique has implications for application of graphene materials
in microelectronics that scale well below the limitations of
silicon determined by Moore's Law. New research from the lab of
Pulickel Ajayan, Rice's Benjamin M. and Mary Greenwood Anderson
Professor in Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science and of
chemistry, demonstrates a way to achieve fine control in the
creation of such hybrid, 2-D structures. Layers of h-BN a single
atom thick have the same lattice structure as graphene, but
electrically the materials are at opposite ends of the spectrum:
h-BN is an insulator, whereas graphene, the single-atom-layer
form of carbon, is