Talk:Graphene/Archive 2

Archive 1

Archive 2

Mention T-graphene here ?

This article is already very large - so maybe T-graphene (A single-layer planar carbon sheet with four- and eight-membered rings) Single-layer T-graphene could be an intrinsic elemental 2D superconductor should be started in a separate article ? - Rod57 (talk) 16:33, 6 September 2019 (UTC)

2017 Vice article on readability

An article in Vice back in 2017 commented on the lead readability of this article. I didn't notice this mentioned earlier on the talkpage so I thought I'd link it here for the record:

For another, somewhat different example, look at the article for graphene. Graphene is, of course, an endlessly hyped superstrong supermaterial. It's in the news constantly. The article isn't just a bunch of math equations, but it's also not much more penetrable for a reader without at least some chemistry/materials science background. Here's the first line: "Graphene is an allotrope of carbon in the form of a two-dimensional, atomic-scale, hexagonal lattice in which one atom forms each vertex." That's not too bad but a reader has to figure it's not going to get much better as the article progresses (it doesn't). Encyclopedia Britannica, meanwhile, offers something more digestible: "Graphene, a two-dimensional form of crystalline carbon, either a single layer of carbon atoms forming a honeycomb (hexagonal) lattice or several coupled layers of this honeycomb structure." I can actually read that.

— Michael Byrne (link)

Obviously readability has been a consistent problem across Wikipedia, but something to consider for this page as an example. T.Shafee(Evo&Evo)^talk 00:27, 13 September 2019 (UTC)

A Section is needed on graphene used for batteries

Can somebody who knows this stuff write a section on graphene batteries? (PeacePeace (talk) 01:23, 10 February 2020 (UTC))

Width and chirality

Article currently reads in part Tightbinding calculations show that armchair orientation can be semiconducting or metallic depending on width (chirality). [1]

I think this needs explanation, or at least sourcing. Width and chirality are very different concepts. Andrewa (talk) 16:15, 2 April 2020 (UTC)

COVID-19 detector

"'Wonder material' can be used to detect COVID-19 quickly, accurately" Includes link to journal article. Mapsax (talk) 02:00, 18 June 2021 (UTC)

Chirality?

Why is the half-integer Hall effect called "chiral"? Graphene, whether the theoretical infinite plane or its finite flakes, is not chiral, because the plane of the molecule is a plane of symmetry. If Geim &c used the term once, it must have been an improper use. Are people in the field still using it?--Jorge Stolfi (talk) 01:26, 2 August 2020 (UTC)

That's Chemist's (real-space) chirality. Here, it's about electron's pseudospin being locked to its momentum. You'll see it a lot in topological insulators (next hot thing after graphene) where the actual spin is locked to momentum (in reciprocal space). Here as well chiral magnetic effect. Stackexchange: https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/333203/whats-chiral-about-the-dirac-points-in-graphene. Now, QHE in graphene isn't half-integer, as in fractional (interacting electrons with non-integer eff. charge), but the good old integer QHE with plateaus shifted by 1/2 because of chirality of the band structure. Geim et al christened it Chiral QHE, but people use different names, or just describe it as unconventional (since anomalous is reserved for yet another Hall effect). Fractional QHE has also been observed in graphene. In summary: the name Half-integer QHE alone is misleading, anomalous QHE shouldn't be used either, and there should probably be no special name for the effect in graphene; it can be simply said it's unconventional. Ponor (talk) 10:28, 2 August 2020 (UTC)

@Ponor: Ok, thanks. The previous verson of he article had only a wikilink to the general chirality article, that does not mention the quantum sense.
(By the way, why do you put quotes on ref names? They are not needed if the name has only digits and letters.)
All the best,--Jorge Stolfi (talk) 13:36, 2 August 2020 (UTC)

(Jorge, it's not me, it's Wikipedia's visual editor. I think it'll change the labels every time it needs to reindex the list.) Ponor (talk) 16:13, 2 August 2020 (UTC)

Verb missing

The 2nd “sentence” (phrase between periods) in the section “Chiral half-integer quantum Hall effect” missing a verb (like this “sentence”). It currently reads as ‘The quantization of the Hall effect \sigma_{xy} at integer multiples (the "Landau level") of the basic quantity e^{2}/h (where e is the elementary electric charge and h is Planck's constant).’ Login54321 (talk) 18:07, 4 August 2021 (UTC)

Largest sheets - where to mention

I couldn't see any mention of sheet sizes by the different techniques or the largest sheets by any technique - so was interested to see 4x7cm sheets reported (using CVD) [2] but where to mention in this article (intro & CVD ?) ? - Rod57 (talk) 12:28, 1 October 2021 (UTC)