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== Graphite, carbon and other | == carbon based semiconductors (Graphite, carbon and other stuff)== | ||
"The most used semiconductor material, Si, which serves so well | |||
in electronics, happens to have rather poor properties when it comes to biological | |||
environments. In salty solutions and especially with applied potentials Si becomes | |||
easily corroded. This opens the stage for new and seemingly exotic materials: carbon | |||
based semiconductors. Carbon is one of the main elements in organic chemistry, | |||
which concerns materials ranging from plastic foils to biological systems like | |||
enzymes or even cells." (https://www.ph.tum.de/academics/org/labs/fopra/docs/userguide-64.en.pdf) | |||
"Graphite is a crystalline form of carbon, a semimetal, a native element mineral, and one of the allotropes of carbon. Graphite is the most stable form of carbon under standard conditions." (wikipedia) | "Graphite is a crystalline form of carbon, a semimetal, a native element mineral, and one of the allotropes of carbon. Graphite is the most stable form of carbon under standard conditions." (wikipedia) | ||