I really like my research. My research involves the process of hydrogenating graphene. I got into it because I really loved learning quantum mechanics and I know quantum is used in the construction of semi-conductors. For my professor I looked into his research with graphene and found out that his research deals with making it a semi-conductor.
My job is to help make graphene into a semi-conductor. Graphene has all sorts of amazing properties like being 100 times stronger than steel, great heat and electricity conductivity properties and can even self repair its carbon lattice. The issue is that graphene doesn’t have a band gap which doesn’t allow it to have an electrical difference to be a semi-conductor. You can give it a band gap with chemical process but most chemical process destroy the carbon lattice of the graphene. HOWEVER, carbon loves hydrogen had hyrodognization allows carbon and hydrogen to make covalent bonds, create a band gap, and keep the graphene in tact with its properties.
I pretty much hydrogenize it in a high vacuum and see how to idealize the process and the best way to use graphene as a semi-conductor. If it works I can definitely see graphene replacing silicon.
What’s your guys?