To: LibWhacker
2 posted on
07/24/2005 10:55:12 PM PDT by
denydenydeny
("Liberty is not a suicide pact."--Fouad Ajami)
To: LibWhacker
'micromechanical cleavage' Photos please!
3 posted on
07/24/2005 10:57:24 PM PDT by
TheOtherOne
(I often sacrifice my spelling on the alter of speed™)
To: Allegra; TheMom; Xenalyte; sfimom
Finally! A material for blouses that can maybe, possibly be tucked into our tight jeans! ping
To: LibWhacker
Not only are they ultra-thinSheesh, who writes this stuff?
7 posted on
07/24/2005 11:05:43 PM PDT by
lafroste
(gravity is not a force. See my profile to read my novel absolutely free (I know, beyond shameless))
To: LibWhacker
"Molly wire" comes to mind.
Evil thoughts there...
8 posted on
07/24/2005 11:07:56 PM PDT by
Spktyr
(Overwhelmingly superior firepower and the willingness to use it is the only proven peace solution.)
To: LibWhacker
Also, blades with edges that are a single atom thick.
"Armor? What armor?"
9 posted on
07/24/2005 11:09:08 PM PDT by
Spktyr
(Overwhelmingly superior firepower and the willingness to use it is the only proven peace solution.)
To: KevinDavis
11 posted on
07/24/2005 11:38:25 PM PDT by
skinkinthegrass
(Just because you're paranoid, doesn't mean they aren't out to get you :^)
To: LibWhacker
"We have now demonstrated the existence of 2D atomic crystals and believe that, once investigated and understood, it will be possible for them to be grown in large sizes required for industrial applications." Quick! Let'ss offshore the R&D to India and the manufacturing to China before it's too late.
12 posted on
07/24/2005 11:40:01 PM PDT by
Euro-American Scum
(A poverty-stricken middle class must be a disarmed middle class)
To: LibWhacker
Cool. Before they market products I hope they figure out a way to give the products blunt edges though. Otherwise, there will be some very serious paper cut type injuries. ;)
Sounds like "material science software developer" is the career op of the future.
To: LibWhacker
Electrons moving in such low dimensional materials will exhibit fractional quantum statistics - they stop acting like fermions and start behaving more like bosons (i.e. they can superconduct).
High Tc superconductors exhibit the same low-dimensionality, though they achieve this by being Jahn-Teller distort lattices, not by being 2 nm thick.
To: LibWhacker
Some companies are already working on this. Some cling wrap is nearly one atom thin.
;)
20 posted on
07/25/2005 4:49:16 AM PDT by
bwteim
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