An Indian-origin scientist has developed a new one atom-thick flat material that could upstage the wonder material graphene for having properties allowing it to be used in advanced digital technology.
Discovered by Madhu Menon, physicist at the University of Kentucky in the US, the new material is made up of silicon, boron and nitrogen - all light, inexpensive and abundant elements. The material is stable, a property many other graphene alternatives lack.
“We used simulations to see if the bonds would break or disintegrate — it didn't happen. We heated the material up to 1,000 degree celsius and it still didn't break,” said Menon, physicist in the centre for computational sciences. The discovery is reported in a paper in Physical Review B.
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