柔性电子可用来打印超速石墨烯芯片

新华网8月26日电 据美国科技博客Gizmodo报道，未来主义者总是认为柔性电子能够以惊人的方式改变我们未来的生活，但这些头脑风暴式的想法至今还没能问市。日前，一支由美国德克萨斯州大学的科学家组成的研究小组发现了改变未来的关键——软质塑料上的超高速石墨烯电晶体(graphene transistors)。

石墨烯从多重意义上来说都是好东西。对芯片制造来说，它是非常好的原材料。传统的石墨烯芯片打破了多项电子传输速度的记录。在过去，若要将石墨烯电晶体放在软质材料上会影响电子传输速度，而新材料很好地解决了这一问题。

石墨烯电晶体不禁速度快，而且非常强壮，若将设备放入水中依旧能共正常工作。此外，其足够的柔韧性也使设备能轻易折叠起来。

就在本周早些时候，有消息称另外一组来自加州大学的研究人员也在研究有关石墨烯芯片的最新技术，现在唯一需要的就是一家科技公司将这些新技术推向市场。

译者：张免

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We Can Now Print Ultrafast Graphene Chips for Flexible Electronics

Futurists are always talking about how flexible electronics will change our lives in amazing ways, but we've yet to see anything mind-blowing come to market. A team of scientists from the University of Texas in Austin, however, think they've found the key to changing that: ultrafast graphene transistors printed on flexible plastic.

Graphene is amazing stuff for a lot different reasons. One reason is that it's the perfect material for chip-making, and conventional graphene chips have broken several electronic speed records. In the past, however, attempts to put graphene transistors on flexible materials have caused that speed to take a dive. Not with this new method.

The graphene transistors are not only speedy but robust. The devices still work after being soaked in water, and they re flexible enough to be folded up.

And things are only getting better. Earlier this week we learned about a cutting edge technique for making graphene chips developed by a team of researchers from the University of California. All we need now is a company to take the plunge and start bringing some of this next level technology to market. And you thought Liquidmetal was cool.

(原标题：柔性电子可用来打印超速石墨烯芯片)