Posted on 12/23/2017 11:49:18 AM PST by BenLurkin
are you from the past?
2D carbon based systems have been studied for years as the perfect conductor.
Graphene can be both conductive and non-condutive depending on electronic conformation (s,p,d) which makes it a very good candidate for ultrathin (as in a atom thick, one Angstrom) nanosize gates (the building block of computing).
computing is growing at a logarithmic rate.
The article takes an idiotically simple view of metallurgy by ignoring that the processing and arrangement of elemental metals can drastically affect the behavior of alloys. The reporter was likely sent out to solicit disparaging views from experts and got what was instructed.
Even rich people like $22 million.
Yabbut, it sounds so cool to the liberal idiots that read the NYT.
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That we've got.
Speaking of hiding the remote; I have Xfinity Triple Play, which means I had to get the fancy new DVR. Fine. Then in the mail came a vocal remote you just TALK to. Oh no ya’ don’t! I don’t want anything listening to ME. I buried it, in the packaging, in the bottom of the TV stand, behind my DVDs, etc.
http://www.tssbulletproof.com/optically-clear-aluminum-provides-bulletproof-protection/
Some are detrimental in specific applications -- like the decades-known Au5AL2 intermetallic reaction (aka "Purple Plague") that cause failures of bonds between gold wires and aluminum IC metallization...
That doesn't mean that it (or other stoichometric ratio compositions) could not be useful for other purposes...
... and also, the element of surprise!
Adamantium?
Vibranium?
Uru?
E.G., elemental carbon, common or diamond.
Illudium Phosdex, the Shaving Cream Atom.
http://www.supercartoons.net/cartoon/656/duck-dodgers-in-the-24th-century.html
Gorp doesn’t occur naturally in nature either - takes special blending skills....
Two (no more, no less) layers of graphene together can exceed the hardness and strength of diamond when stressed:
As I said, we now understand the elements of the periodic table fairly well. Now, the materials science door is opening into a whole new world of nano and micro-scale elemental structures.
Next? Products of reactions between nanostructures...?
We've come a long way in the last century. There's no telling where a culture with a few millennia of a head start might be in their knowledge and applications of materials...
This must be what Galadriel gave Frodo.
This must be what Galadriel gave Frodo.
I liked this quote at the end: As for whether there’s an explanation at least for the metals themselves, Sachleben said: “There’s not as many mysteries in science as people like to think. It’s not like we know everything we don’t know everything. But most things we know enough about to know what we don’t know.”
I think this Sachleben should be nominated for the double-speak award, for 2018. I think hed win too.
“Reports that say that something hasn’t happened are always interesting to me, because as we know, there are known knowns; there are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say we know there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns the ones we don’t know we don’t know. And if one looks throughout the history of our country and other free countries, it is the latter category that tend to be the difficult ones.”
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