[DannyTN]

Awesome! Graphene for everybody.

Top 10 industrial uses of Graphene (PDF)

[lafroste]

Heck, they could turn their combustion chamber into a gas engine, use the engine to run a generator to power the spark plug.

Now where have I seen that before? Little combustion chambers, carbonaceous fuel and oxygen, all reliant on spark plugs? Dang that sounds familiar some how.

[lurk]

And what college age male doesn’t like explosions.

Maybe get the muslin community involved. They could blow up pizza parlors and manufacture graphene at the same time, part time work.

[lacrew]

“The researchers first stumbled on this production method when they were developing and patenting carbon soot aerosol gels.”

Umm...what the heck are carbon soot aerosol gels used for?

[PAR35]

Four gallon container, check
Oxygen, check
Acetylene, check
Spark plug, check

Contained explosion - that sounds like an issue.

[PLMerite]

Two exotic chemicals renew an old animosity...

[BlueDragon]

Goody.

Yet another thread where somebody gets to post;

"It blowed up real good!"

[babygene]

I have a bad feeling that a lot of DIY-ers are going to get killed trying this...

[HandyDandy]

Graphene is a zero-gap semiconductor, because its conduction and valence bands meet at the Dirac points. The Dirac points are six locations in momentum space, on the edge of the Brillouin zone, divided into two non-equivalent sets of three points. The two sets are labeled K and K'. The sets give graphene a valley degeneracy of gv = 2. By contrast, for traditional semiconductors the primary point of interest is generally Γ, where momentum is zero. Four electronic properties separate it from other condensed matter systems.

[SnuffaBolshevik]

Graphene?

Didn’t she used to dance at Sheri’s Show Bar down on Rte. 97?

Maybe it was Xenette.

[jonno]

Is it just me, or is there some contradictions in the last few paragraphs? Is it cost effective or not?

“The simplicity of production and low cost makes it a real candidate for increasing its scale for production purposes because typical ‘cooking’ processes that use mineral graphite and chemicals result in a far lengthier process.

This cooking method is also far more energy intensive, potentially dangerous and lower yielding than could be deemed practical for a manufacturer to take on.

Sorensen said: “What might be the best property of all is that the energy required to make a gram of graphene through our process is much less than other processes, because all it takes is a single spark.”