Strongest Material Ever Found in Atom-Thick Carbyne Chains

Science World Report ^ | Oct 11, 2013

[Straight Vermonter]

Maybe I will finally get my space elevator.

[Jack Hammer]

Maybe, finally, I can get a jock strap that works.

[Tula Git]

I thought it was unobtainium.

[Starstruck]

You know everything you buy will be packaged in this stuff. Try to get that open.

[jeffc]

With a 90-degree end-to-end rotation, it becomes a magnetic semiconductor.

Replacement for transistors? Only if better, faster and more heat-resistant.

[COBOL2Java]

Carbyne is a chain of carbon atoms held together by either double or alternating single and triple atomic bonds. That makes it a true one-dimensional material...

Maybe that's what they implanted in Obama's brain!

[Cyman]

I don’t care what anyone says there ain’t no such thing as a one dimensional chain of anything.Theoretical physicists and their mental masturbatory dreams be damned.

[The Cajun]

That makes it a true one-dimensional material

That would make it a *point object*, don't think so.

[Straight Vermonter]

Not literally one dimensional but about the closest thing possible in the physical world.

[Jonty30]

It will become the packaging.

[mdittmar]

I’ll be dead before Graphene is used,now there talking Carbyne,I’ll stick with Duct Tape;)

[dadfly]

great stuff!

[Straight Vermonter]

One dimension is a line not a point.

[Paperpusher]

Light weight bullet proof vest?

[Straight Vermonter]

Light weight bullet proof vest?

I'm always amazed at how people with different perspectives look at a new technology. That never occurred to me.

[martin_fierro]

Densest material known to Man.

[philetus]

Sounds like a Sinclair molecule chain.

[ClearCase_guy]

The vest was my first thought. But also the opposite -- some science fiction discusses a weapon created through a mono-molecular sword. It's basically a strong, impossibly thin weapon which simply slices through anything at all.

As a sheet, this stuff could stop any bullet.
As a string, it could cut a steel girder (perhaps).

[Straight Vermonter]

It's basically a strong, impossibly thin weapon which simply slices through anything at all.

In "Fountains of Paradise" Arthur C. Clarke used the idea of a super-thin, super-strong material that could be used to create a space elevator. At one point the man who wanted to build the elevator slices him thumb off with it.