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Twisted graphene has become the big thing in physics

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Re: Twisted graphene has become the big thing in physics

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It's great that now that regular graphene has become ubiquitous and has delivered on all of its promises to revolutionize tech we have something new to look forward to.

Is there a list of devices regular graphene has made possible?

I believe he is being sarcastic

Re: Twisted graphene has become the big thing in physics

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Pardon my interruption but I searched for 'use' or 'usage' and came up empty. Anyone can tell a regular guy why it's a big deal and what are the applications? ta

It seems to have a very real potential to help us learn a great deal about superconductivity.

Re: Twisted graphene has become the big thing in physics

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Pardon my interruption but I searched for 'use' or 'usage' and came up empty. Anyone can tell a regular guy why it's a big deal and what are the applications? ta

Research. It's a relatively simple setup with relatively easy to control properties, that does something really fucking weird. It offers a window into the behavior of other poorly understood superconductors, and that offers the eventual chance of higher temperature or higher magnetic flux superconductors. Either would be revolutionary - room temperature superconductors have obvious applications, but higher flux superconductors would allow better, smaller, cheaper stellarators and tokamaks - opening the door for fusion power.
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