Samsung Group, Inc. announced that they have developed a technique in creating graphene, an ultra-thin, light-weight and flexible material which can be used as a screen for wearable devices.
The South Korean company, which began to rise in 1990 as one of the world's biggest electronic companies, claimed to have successfully synthesized a new method which enables the mass production of graphene in smaller portions at the lowest possible cost. The said method also addresses the limitations of creating smaller portions of graphene, the thinnest material which can conduct both heat and electricity.
The company believes that tapping the potential of this material in their products will mark the beginning of the era of bendable and more compact gadgets, which will not only yield higher profit, but break new grounds for in the field of digital technology.
Before the new technique, graphene can only be produced in large sizes by combining smaller graphene crystal that would hamper the flow of electricity.
Samsung believes that graphene will play a major role in the company's transition to wearable and other next-generation electronic devices. With its potential to become a great technological breakthrough, pioneering the creation of graphene will mark the era of bendable and more compact gadgets which have been an elusive and long-overdue goal for East Asian scientists.
However, the company kept mum on its commercial plans prior to their discovery.
"The main issue has been how to grow single-crystal graphene on a larger scale, and this is the first demonstration of that," said Sung-yool Choi, director of the Graphene Research Center at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, to Wall Street Journal.
Choi also added that the Samsung is expecting high electrical performance compared to other work by incorporating graphene into their future products.
Further details of the study can be read in the April 4 issue of Science.
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