Novamene
Novamene Summary
Hidden in obscurity was an allotrope of carbon called Lonesdaleite. This carbon allotrope was discovered by chance in 1967 while studying meteorites. Named in honour of Kathleen Lonsdale, Lonsdaleite is also referred to as hexagonal diamond.
The Nobel Prize in Physics 2010 was awarded jointly to Andre Geim and Konstantin Novoselov “for groundbreaking experiments regarding the two-dimensional material graphene”.
In September 2014, an epiphany came to the Alfields team – could it be possible to combine both hexagonal diamond and graphene to create a new allotrope?
From this simple thought, Novamene was born.
Description:
Novamene can simply be described as the combining of hexagonal diamond (Lonesdaleite) and graphene. Since diamond is an electrical insulator and graphene is a conductor, Novamene has the potential to revelutionize the nano-electronics world. In short, Novamene will replace silicon as the primary material for computer chips.
Novamene also holds the potential to function as a quantum bit (qbit) and is predicted to be the basis for the fabrication of a room temperature quantum computer. Such a device would dramatically and dynamicaly change all means of high-end computer problem solving.
After developing single-ring Novamene, it became clear that what is magical about this new material is that it can exist as a completely new class of allotropes having many thousands of combinations of graphene rings surrounded by hexagonal diamond. The last time a completely new class of hexagonal diamond had been discovered was in 1986 with the discovery of fullerenes. In short, Novamene is not one material but many thousands of allotropes that are expected usher in a new era in modern science.
Application Fields:
- Quantum Computing
- Semiconductors
- Energy Storage (Batteries)
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