Graphene is the next wonder material which can let you have a Samsung phone so thin, strong and flexible, you could roll it up like a newspaper or stash it in your wallet which can be slipped into your back pocket and then sat on. Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology (SAIT) and Sungkyunkwan University have been working on a way to make the production of this material for electronics commercially viable by speeding up the process.
In other words, the two organizations are trying to bring their invention of the Graphene Barristor to various electronics such as flexible displays and wearables. Graphene which depends on carbon atoms to be connected in the form of a hexagon net, is supposed to be the thinnest nano material in the world.
The two developing teams have found a method that lets them create a large area, single crystal wafer scale graphene. So far, other researchers have failed in this field owing to the fact that building such a large wafer meant it deteriorated the electric and mechanical properties of the end product.
SAIT and Sungkyunkwan University managed to pull off the task by synthesizing large-area graphene into one crystal on a semiconductor, while having the material retain its electric and mechanical properties. Researchers have been working with silicon in order to craft transistors for semiconductor devices all along.
Graphene is not only reported to be more durable than steel, it is also very flexible, boasts of high heat conductibility and has 100 times greater electron mobility than silicon. Well, it looks like Samsung may be able to deliver us the next truly flexible phone and finally stop following Apple around.