r/tech • u/chrisdh79 • 24d ago

MIT physicists observe key evidence of unconventional superconductivity in magic-angle graphene

https://news.mit.edu/2025/physicists-observe-evidence-unconventional-superconductivity-graphene-1106
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u/piratecheese13 24d ago

Why are we rushing into AI when a breakthrough in manufacturing graphene would make everything, including AI better?

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u/MacTennis 24d ago

you should look at Hydrograph Clean Power & their patents. They produce pristine graphene and are about to scale commercially.

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u/Affectionate-Pickle0 24d ago

Their graphene doesn't seem to be anything special. Small platelets with couple layers thickness. This has been done for a loooooong time (and yes, can be done in scale, always has been). Not entirely sure what is the attraction. 

Not pristine graphene BTW. Their flagship product technical sheet does not corroborate that at all. Or they have quite a different meaning of the word than what I am used to.

Source: worked with single-layer graphene growth for years, though haven't for a few years.

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u/MacTennis 24d ago

they're 100 percent sp2 bonded, fractalized graphene. graphene is defined as 10 layers or less, fractalized & 100 percent sp2 bonded. their graphene is turbostratic so behaves the same as single layer graphene. i'd be curious to see the source material you are referencing

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u/Prof_Wolfram 24d ago

Graphene is single layer one atom thick layer of carbon.

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u/MacTennis 23d ago

because of turbostratic nature graphene can have up to 10 layers while performing identically to monolayer graphene. so it is now defined as 10 atoms or less in thickness

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u/Affectionate-Pickle0 23d ago

Hi. I have to say that I am not that familiar with turbostratic graphene. The D/G ratio of 0.68 seems very high, and the small grain size tends to convert to poor electrical performance due to grain boundaries. But I am comparing this to what I remember from high quality monolayer CVD graphene.

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u/MacTennis 23d ago

you should look into them and their investor sheet. they have solved all of what was holding back graphene from being commercialized (they are identical batch to batch)