According to Xinhua News Agency reported on 22, an international team recently in the UK academic journal “nature communications” reported that they found a new way to “wake up” superconducting graphene, if the technology is mature, will greatly expand the scope of application of this material.

Graphene is separate from graphite materials, consisting of only one carbon atom layer two-dimensional material. It has thin, toughness, electrical conductivity and thermal conductivity properties, is the industry hopes for a new generation of materials. Scientists have long believed that this material has superconductivity, but had not found that.

Researchers at the University of Cambridge and other institutions will graphene and called praseodymium cerium copper oxide superconducting materials “collocation experiment started, the success of” wake up “graphene” sleeping “superconductivity. Experiments show that the superconducting graphene is not present from the outside, “praseodymium cerium copper oxide” role is only as an auxiliary material to stimulate superconducting graphene intrinsic.

Refers to the number of superconducting materials entirely resistance under specific conditions of the phenomenon, then the current in the material flow will not loss, no energy loss and fever. The phenomenon of superconductivity has a wide application prospect in electronic industry, but the relevant technology from large-scale practical application there are still many problems to be overcome.

Graphene as a superconductor will open a lot of imagination. According to the researchers, “graphene awakened after” can be used for manufacturing of super computer etc..