Very interesting article.
Seems like the smart people keep getting smarter. They need to invent something to make me as smart as they are. Come on, geniuses, carbon-up my brain with some new magic formula. LOL
But carbon is EVIL!
CO2 is killing the planet!
COAL is made of CARBON!..............
It is hard to say if that is true or not. Certainly, they have more electronic computational and analytical tools available to them that make it possible to test their theories and the properties of the physical substances they produce more efficiently. But this does not indicate that they are necessarily any smarter than previous generations just that they have better and more tools available to them.
The article does not do the best job of explaining the properties of this new substance. What does it even mean when they say something is as hard as diamond yet as flexible as rubber. On it's surface at least that is a contradictory statement. A machine tool of alloy steel with an edge meant for cutting must be hard, if it is flexible it will not hold its edge when trying to cut another hard material.