Like Nanotech, another good(?) idea desperately seeking an aplication, so I might be able to have a superthin foldable smartphone etc...............so what, its just a gimmick and you can bet it will be mega expensive. Carbon is a good conductor, (there are better) it has ben used in electric motors as carbon brushes since the early part of the last century. The problem with the latest microchips is that the gaps between the copper conductors has got smaller and smaller and the tracks themselves thinner, to serve an obsession with minuturisation, which, taken beyond a certain level of "smallness" is pointless. Now the chips get too hot because of the current being carried in these excessively small conductor rails, carbon may help, it may not. more research needed. cheaper touchscreens, well ok, thats got potential for bigcorp to make bigger profits, but touch screen tech is just another gimmick anyway. Batteries for electric cars, now there is a possiblity, but at the end of the day, it is just superthin carbon, and the properties of carbon have been known for years. The electric car is also of questionable value. unless it is recharged by wind or wave power you are just moving the pollution somewhere else. I am desperately looking for something clever here. As to the comments on what the silicon chip has done for society, it has brought us many small usefull devices that are in huge demand, cheap to make, expensive to buy, and impossible to repair, The perfect product for profit. I was reading a comment on another forum about the fact that 40 years ago scrapyards were full of cars that had rusted out and blown their engines, someone commented that a modern scrapyard looks like a supermarket car park, it is full of clean smart vehicles on which the computerised electronics has faults which put them beyond economical repair. That is not progress.
