/sci/ - Science & Math

>>10456794
>I know this board is mostly full of high school students.
This kills the board. Anyway, what do you need to know? My experience with graphene is from a cleanroom/microfabrication environment, where I've helped others with their graphene-related device research due to its overlap with my own research.

>>10456991
You don't without highly specialized equipment. Vendor-bought graphene, the type you would need for such work, comes on Cu substrates because it is most efficiently, and with the highest quality, grown on Cu. It is limited in size, however. There are methods to transfer it to other substrates, but transferring often results in a significant defects, which drastically deteriorates the electrical quality of the graphene, like >>10457071 said. This is one of the single largest roadblocks that graphene will have to overcome to be commercially viable.

>>10456797
Given enough resources and time, most forward-looking device research can be demonstrated at the lab scale. That doesn't mean that it will operate under conditions it would need to operate under in order to be a feasible replacement for a state-of-the-art, high-volume device, or that it can be manufactured in a commercially viable manner.

>>8100410
This is a separate, but also equally important issue in the US. As institutional costs go up (i.e., they have to pay their administrative and superstar faculty over-inflated salaries to keep them, and thus their prestige), so does tuition.

Stack 'em deep and teach 'em cheap.

What's even worse is that in order to offset these 'costs,' many state and private universities are accepting a plethora of rich Asian students (mostly Chinese) into their undergraduate programs - REGARDLESS of credentials - to pull in insane out-of-state/international tuition dollars. Rather than spend that money on additional lecturers, improved facilities, etc., a lot of it will go to overpaid administration and greedy faculty who would jump ship at the next best offer.

The ivory tower is pretty fucked when you peel away at the veneer...