But together, these two materials make a workable digital switch, which is the basis for controlling electrons in computers, phones, medical equipment and other electronics.
Yoke Khin Yap, a professor of physics at Michigan Technological University, has worked with a research team that created these digital switches by combining graphene and boron nitride nanotubes. The journal Scientific Reports recently published their work.
“The question is: How do you fuse these two materials together?” Yap says. The key is in maximizing their existing chemical structures and exploiting their mismatched features.
Read more about how Yap and his team combined these materials here: http://www.mtu.edu/news/stories/2015/july/better-together-graphene-nanotube-hybrid-switches.html
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Scientific Reports, July 2015; DE-SC0012762