Crystal growers who sparked a revolution in graphene electronics
I enjoy those sorts of stories, people doing research into something they find interesting opening up a field for others.<p>If this material (hBN) could be made industrially at scale I believe it would completely change the capacitor market. Based on papers that describe the amount of charge (current) graphene can carry, especially when isolated with hBN, I imagine that a capacitor made with an hBN dielectric would completely blow away its closest competitor both in capacitance per cubic mm and in low ESR. Think dots the size of periods replacing components that are now the size of rice grains.