Theories and ideas log
Separate from [[logs/companies]] and [[logs/conspiracies]]. Dates are first clear documented appearance of the idea, not “the idea became a product.”
| When | Idea | Status | Pages |
|---|---|---|---|
| Late 18th c. | Graphite is elemental carbon, not lead | Well-supported consensus | [[timeline/pre-chemistry]] |
| 1859 | Graphite oxidized into a lamellar oxide | Well-supported | [[timeline/before-1900]] |
| 1947 | Single graphite layer as a calculable electron system | Well-supported theory | [[timeline/1947]] |
| 1960s–80s | Strict 2D crystals vs Mermin–Wagner-type talk | Often over-simplified in pop history | [[timeline/1963-2003]] |
| 1962 / 1986 | Oxide-route monolayers; name graphene | Well-supported | [[timeline/1962]] |
| 2004–2005 | Isolated monolayer on insulator + Dirac-fermion transport | Well-supported experiment | [[timeline/2004]] · [[timeline/2005]] |
| 2007+ | Ideal-monolayer property comparisons as product copy | Pedagogy vs marketing | [[timeline/2007]] |
| 2009+ | Copper CVD as a wafer-scale path | Well-supported process paper; yield still a problem | [[timeline/2009]] |
| 2010s | Graphene replaces silicon | Largely unmet engineering ideal | [[timeline/2011]] · [[timeline/2012]] |
| 2012+ | The device is a van der Waals stack, not a lone FET | Well-supported research program | [[timeline/2012]] |
| 2013+ | Flagship-scale coordinated applications | Well-supported as a program | [[timeline/2013]] |
| 2015 | Holey graphene as molecular stencil on gold | Well-supported method | [[posts/holey-graphene-molecular-stencil]] · [[timeline/2015]] |
| 2017 | Shared vocabulary can exist across grades (ISO/TS 80004-13) | Terminology standard, not a certificate | [[timeline/2017]] |
| 2018 | Twist angle as a knob (magic-angle bilayer) | Well-supported physics | [[timeline/2018]] |