'Wonder material'flexible as tin foil becomes harder than a diamond when it's hit by a bullet

Daily Mail ^ | 22 December 2017 | Catherine Chapman

[mairdie]

A wonder material as flexible as tinfoil but hard enough to stop a speeding bullet has been created in the lab.

Diamene is made using two layers of graphene, the world's first two-dimensional material which is just one atom thick, a million times thinner than human hair.

Such a substance could be used for anything from water-resistant protective coatings to ultra-light bulletproof armour.

[Rio]

Seriously, tinfoil? Has anyone alive today actually used tin foil?

[Cold Heart]

do a quick search. Found an article “should you invest in Graphene Stock”

[Durus]

Another article stating that graphene is “two dimensional” when they actually tell you the thickness of the third dimension...I suppose I should be used to it.

[Bellflower]

There is lot, actually too much out there about graphene and investing, pros and cons. It would be wonderful to have freepers, who can be very wise, weigh in on the subject.

[wita]

“Seriously, tinfoil? Has anyone alive today actually used tin foil?”

http://mentalfloss.com/article/56563/why-do-we-sometimes-call-aluminum-foil-tin-foil

For those who really want to know. The answer is of course yes.

[Ozark Tom]

Close enough?

http://www.guns.com/2013/03/18/gyrojet-rocketgun/

[jiggyboy]

Also, a bullet is bigger than the six atoms wide they’ve drawn. You’ve caught them.

[Lazamataz]

For a change let’s be smart rather than snarky.

I, for one, refuse to break with Free Republic tradition!

[trebb]

That’s not a bullet - it’s orange lipstick - it will have to be thicker than shown to stop a real bullet.....

[dinodino]

Shouldn’t be hard to stop that bullet, seeing as how it was never fired...

[TXnMA]

"As smart as these scientists are, they don’t know bullets actually LEAVE cases when fired. I’ve sent a lot of rounds in my day, and I’ve never seen one leave a muzzle with the case still on it."

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If you were a scientist, you would be smart enough to observe that those are carbon atoms -- so the scale is totally wrong for that to be a "bullet". That isn't a bullet. It is a nanoscale "atomic force probe".

Your anti-science crap doesn't work on this scientist.

Merry Christmas!

Hope Santa brought you a brain...

[SunkenCiv]

Roswell! Roswell! :^) Thanks mairdie.

[Cementjungle]

the world's first two-dimensional material which is just one atom thick

I would argue its still a three-dimensional material, even if one dimension has a size of one atom.

[BenLurkin]

[Cementjungle]

[Cementjungle]

Catherine at the Daily Mail stole this article, and also made some silly mistakes. For example, original article lists as a possible use "wear-resistant material" and she put "water-resistant material".

Here's the real article: https://www.graphene-info.com/new-graphene-material-called-diamene-switches-flexible-harder-diamond-upon-impact

[mairdie]

What an absolutely BRILLIANT catch!!!!

[bgill]

[Red Badger]