There has been more work reporter on 2-D materials, also called atomic level materials.\u00a0 Typically, this term refers to a sheet of material that is only atom thick with the other two dimensions that extend as far as can be produced, which normally is not to great.\u00a0 The first material that was referred to this way was graphene.\u00a0 There are interesting properties. Graphene provides strength as well as electrical properties.\u00a0 There have been claims that 2-D materials will lead to improved performance in solar cells, new electronics based on 2-D transistors, various filtering mechanisms, and even a novel type of semiconductor.<\/p>\n
This development has been ongoing for over 10 years.\u00a0 Like carbon nanotubes, the applications seem almost infinite, but the actual release of products based on the materials is very slowly moving forward.\u00a0 You could ask why.\u00a0 For the researcher, the development of novel ideas is what get papers published or patents issued.\u00a0 Moving a product into production is a totally different story.\u00a0 The concerns include customer acceptance, the ability to have a sufficient quantity of quality material required for the products, a distribution channel, and a guaranty of a quality product.<\/p>\n
As the iPhone is approaching its 110 anniversary, it is hard to remember what it was like before the iPhone.\u00a0 One of the more advanced phones was produced by Blackberry.\u00a0 It had an actual keyboard, albeit small, that could be used for entering data.\u00a0 The competition had the 12 keypad that required multiple taps to go from a number, to an underlying capital letter and finally to a small letter.\u00a0 Since each key had at least three letters along with a number, it was a task.\u00a0 The keyboards took approximately \u00bd of the phone face.<\/p>\n
Apple took a huge bet to create a phone with a larger screen and incorporated the keyboard onto the screen through the touch display.\u00a0 That with the addition of additional functions for the phone enabled the sales to skyrocket.\u00a0 Other companies had to change their models to compete and stay viable.\u00a0 Apple had gambled and it paid off.\u00a0 What if it failed?\u00a0 Apple would not be the household word it is today and it might not have survived.<\/p>\n
Manufacturing of a product also has risks.\u00a0 Someone comes along and has a process or material that will take 10% off the cost of the final product, yet companies are reluctant to try it.\u00a0 Why?\u00a0 A 10% or 15% cost reduction sounds like something that should be done immediately.\u00a0 The issue is that no new material or new process is introduced and immediately starts providing dividends.\u00a0 Typically, when a new process is introduced, there is a slow done in production due to working our process bugs or material issues.\u00a0 Yields normally decline until the bugs are worked out.\u00a0 All of this is lost sales\/revenue.\u00a0 If the modification can not be implemented to the level desired, there is more lost product with the corresponding losses.\u00a0 Sometimes even a 50% improvement might not be sufficient to try introducing a novel change.<\/p>\n
So how does this impact 2-D materials?\u00a0 One of the greatest problems with 2-D materials is getting sufficient quantities of the quality product needed.\u00a0 I know of a significant stride in measuring pressure that employed a 2-D material.\u00a0 This effort crashed when there was an attempt to make more than a few laboratory samples.\u00a0 The quality, quantity, and size required were not capable of being obtained.<\/p>\n
2-D materials need to progress further in development so the quality of the materials can\u00a0 be relied on.\u00a0 After that is achieved, the size and volume of material needs to be developed.\u00a0 All of this happens after the applications are first proven in the lab.\u00a0 This takes time, although all would like it to happen faster. \u00a0It is coming but it is coming slowly. \u00a0\u00a0Without any question, more effort is needed to address the manufacturing challenges.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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