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《自然》社论:勿过高期待石墨烯  
目前应用优势还未凸显;长足发展仍需时间


5月26日出版的《自然》杂志刊登社论——《长期游戏》(The long game),认为应该理性、全面地看待石墨烯这种新型材料的现状和前景。以下为文章主要内容:

一个科学领域能否瞬间发展起来?有可能,比如石墨烯研究,其成为“神奇材料”所用时间比一篇论文发表所需时间还要短。尽管石墨烯显著性能的应用开发工作还在继续,但如何实现石墨烯的物尽其用,仍需要完善。

在本月初举行的一个石墨烯相关会议上,许多科学家表示不应该对石墨烯持有过高期望。纵然石墨烯具有一些让人印象深刻的性能,其诱人前景无可否认,但也只能说石墨烯有着很大“潜能”,与许多现存材料的实际应用相比,目前的石墨烯还未展现其优势,石墨烯设备的制造和设计也仍存在许多困难。

不过,这并不代表石墨烯研究一定是令人沮丧的,这个领域依然充满着活力,优异的性能让石墨烯在材料中脱颖而出,如若应用得当,石墨烯产生的影响将会是巨大的。想在石墨烯研究领域获得“一夜成功”,需要的是时间的积累。(科学网 张笑/编译)
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Nature | Editorial
Next article The long game
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(26 May 2011)
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doi:10.1038/473419a
Published online 25 May 2011
Graphene is not a miracle material, just a very promising one. It will take restraint and sustained interest to deliver its potential.

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Share/bookmarkConnotea Cite U Like Facebook Twitter Delicious Digg Is it possible for a field of science to move too fast? Perhaps. Those who work on the form of carbon known as graphene have seen it rocket from the next big thing to a miracle material in less time than it can take for a research paper to be accepted and published. Yet although the hunt is on for applications that can exploit graphene's remarkable properties, the work necessary to find out how it could best be harnessed remains incomplete.

This is one reason why many scientists who attended a meeting on the subject earlier this month were cautious about raising expectations too high. 'Graphene: The Road to Applications' was held in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on 11–13 May, and was hosted by Nature Publishing Group.

As with most 'overnight' success stories, the field of graphene research actually had a very slow start. Physicists have long been fascinated by this one-atom-thick planar crystal of carbon atoms, but until a few years ago most considered it a hypothetical system, useful for studying fundamental properties of matter but not able to exist in free form. It took a steady build-up of theoretical work and pioneering experiments over several decades before the research storm broke when it became possible to isolate graphene sheets in a laboratory.

The material certainly has an impressive set of properties. And there is no denying its tantalizing promise. As a thin membrane — flexible, strong and impermeable — graphene is an attractive platform on which to build devices. Add to that its high electron mobility and excellent optical and thermal properties, and the potential for applications seems endless. But the key word here is potential. The reality is that for many of graphene's widely promoted applications, it currently performs no better than existing materials and conventional approaches. For example, graphene performs relatively poorly as a transparent conductor in conventional displays, touch screens and photovoltaic cells. Neither is it a serious contender to replace silicon in standard electronics, because it does not work well as a digital switch, the essential function of a silicon transistor.

This should not necessarily be discouraging; the field is still very young. Those who talk up the potential of graphene's applications should remember that it typically takes any technology some 20 years to emerge from the lab and be commercialized — and even then it can succeed only with sustained effort and interest from researchers, industry and funding agencies (see Nature 469, 14–16; 2011).

“It typically takes any technology some 20 years to emerge from the lab and be commercialized.”
It is crucial to identify and acknowledge practical hurdles — and when it comes to fabricating and designing graphene devices, there are many. As was stressed many times at the Cambridge meeting, the single biggest obstacle is the lack of a way to reliably produce high-quality graphene sheets in large quantities. The quality and structure of the sheets can differ from batch to batch, which can make devices behave inconsistently.

Furthermore, although the pristine form of graphene has high electron mobility, meaning that devices based on it have the potential to run at high speeds, this changes dramatically when it interacts with its environment, as it does when attached to a substrate. The material will be valuable only if it can perform reliably when put to work.

Graphene stands out from other materials for its combination of superlative properties. In the right application, it could have an enormous impact. For example, although graphene does not perform well in digital electronics, there is much interest in using it to make high-frequency transistors for analogue applications — where it could be truly useful in wireless communication. Another important, if low-profile, role for graphene could be as a passive layer for heat management in electronic devices. Such targeting of graphene's potential will be vital to its success.

A few carefully chosen driver applications, although possibly not as obvious or exciting as some of the uses currently flagged, would give research on the material a better chance of holding on to wide interest in the long term — especially from funding agencies. Overnight success takes time to build.

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xjajx: 哈哈,为了生活嘛 2011-06-02 17:43:59
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Originally posted by yexuqing at 2011-05-30 17:33:02:
《自然》社论:勿过高期待石墨烯  
目前应用优势还未凸显;长足发展仍需时间


5月26日出版的《自然》杂志刊登社论——《长期游戏》(The long game),认为应该理性、全面地看待石墨烯这种新型材料的现状和 ...

大家只是在炒作而已。
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xjajx: 是啊,当初CNT更热 2011-06-02 17:44:16
很大“潜能”的材料听得太多了,总感觉像狼来了。。。
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对于石墨稀我早就表示过很悲观, 将会是跟碳纳米管一样
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xjajx(金币+1): 鼓励有价值回复 2011-06-02 17:44:28
正因为其优异的热学性能,机械性能,光学性能,电学性能吸引了无数科学家的眼球,所以大家都在努力探索其潜在的研究领域,至于实际应用那是下一步的工作了。
含泪播种的人一定能含笑收获!
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xjajx: 挺对的 2011-06-02 17:45:04
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Originally posted by yexuqing at 2011-05-30 17:33:02:
《自然》社论:勿过高期待石墨烯  
目前应用优势还未凸显;长足发展仍需时间


5月26日出版的《自然》杂志刊登社论——《长期游戏》(The long game),认为应该理性、全面地看待石墨烯这种新型材料的现状和 ...

还行吧 ,比三峡大坝要好多了。
毕竟是基础科研,全世界这么多的科研投入,有多少最终转化为实际工业应用?
你说它不好,那么多人都在搞这玩意,乐此不彼,块变片,片变管,管变片.....来回折腾,燃电,锂电,器件性能都因为用了graphene而提升,那都是solid data。记得有次听报告,一个美籍华人(非Xia,Yang, Wang那种大牛),说做报告时总会有人问这东西有嘛用?他说,做基础科研不要问有啥用,显得你很没水平(大意是这样),大概牛人笑谈科研可以如此,换了一般人这样说再就被鄙视了
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Originally posted by nanobox at 2011-05-30 19:46:50:
对于石墨稀我早就表示过很悲观, 将会是跟碳纳米管一样

用不着悲观吧,科研这东西,这么多的文章有多少能真正应用啊,就当是都是为了追求应用这个最终目标而不断的努力尝试吧
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