Graphene hasn't become a reality just yet in mainstream chips, but a new breakthrough from an international team of scientists might change all of that. The scientists invented a new form of graphene that's ten times more conductive.

The impressive material is simply nanoribbons of epitaxial graphene and it is manufactured using a relatively simple process. Scientists grew the nanoribbons on silicone carbide wafers on etched circuit patterns, and was heated to 1,000º Celsius, melting the silicone off and leaving these novel graphene nanoribbons with perfectly smooth edges.

The graphene forms spontaneously on the etched edges of the silicon.

This breakthrough should enable a new way of doing electronics and now, all we've got to do is wait. Graphene is getting real! [Kurzweil]