{"id":215927,"date":"2025-06-14T14:10:45","date_gmt":"2025-06-14T19:10:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/06\/worlds-first-non-silicon-2d-computer-developed"},"modified":"2025-06-14T14:10:45","modified_gmt":"2025-06-14T19:10:45","slug":"worlds-first-non-silicon-2d-computer-developed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/06\/worlds-first-non-silicon-2d-computer-developed","title":{"rendered":"World\u2019s first non-silicon 2D computer developed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/worlds-first-non-silicon-2d-computer-developed2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Silicon is king in the semiconductor technology that underpins smartphones, computers, electric vehicles and more, but its crown may be slipping, according to a team led by researchers at Penn State.<\/p>\n<p>In a world first, they used two-dimensional (2D) materials, which are only an atom thick and retain their properties at that scale, unlike <a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/tags\/silicon\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">silicon<\/a>, to develop a computer capable of simple operations.<\/p>\n<p>The development, published in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41586-025-08963-7\" target=\"_blank\"><i>Nature<\/i><\/a>, represents a major leap toward the realization of thinner, faster and more energy-efficient electronics, the researchers said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Silicon is king in the semiconductor technology that underpins smartphones, computers, electric vehicles and more, but its crown may be slipping, according to a team led by researchers at Penn State. In a world first, they used two-dimensional (2D) materials, which are only an atom thick and retain their properties at that scale, unlike silicon, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":732,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,1512,48,17,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-215927","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-mobile-phones","category-particle-physics","category-sustainability","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215927","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/732"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=215927"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215927\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=215927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=215927"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=215927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}