Yeah, it COULD cover a football field ... if you could do it, you know?
Posted on 08/08/2009 10:39:58 PM PDT by Swordmaker
WASHINGTON -- Imagine a carbon sheet that's only one atom thick but is stronger than diamond and conducts electricity 100 times faster than the silicon in computer chips.
That's graphene, the latest wonder material coming out of science laboratories around the world. It is creating tremendous buzz among physicists, chemists and electronic engineers.
"It is the thinnest known material in the universe and the strongest ever measured," Andre Geim, a physicist at the University of Manchester, England, wrote in the June 19 issue of the journal Science.
"A few grams could cover a football field," Rod Ruoff, a graphene researcher at the University of Texas at Austin, said by e-mail. A gram is about one-thirtieth of an ounce.
Like diamond, graphene is pure carbon. It forms a six-sided mesh of atoms that, through an electron microscope, looks like a honeycomb or piece of chicken wire. Despite its strength, it's as flexible as plastic wrap and can be bent, folded or rolled up like a scroll.
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That would make quite a knife.
Carbon is illegal under the new Cabal. Go to prison racist scientists.
Graphite. Knew it. Yawn.
I want a shiny black bug suit to make me invulnerable. There’s things I want to do.
Good. Braid it into strips and let’s get the space elevator going. We’re going to need a few other planets at this rate for the twits to save...
Yeah, it COULD cover a football field ... if you could do it, you know?
Tunable bandgaps for graphene layers are here now. Takes a structure of two parallel graphene monolayers. As per EE Times.
Graphite is a bunch of carbon flecks that slide over each other. These guys claim to be making the stuff in a single continuous sheet (one giant molecule). Carbon bonds are dang strong. Imagine a material as strong as a diamond, but made in 2 dimensions instead of 3.
If they can somehow mass-produce it and build up layers it would bloody useful in a lot of applications. Imagine armor that is light, flexible, and dang near indestructible.
Oh oh! Stop right there! It's bad, evil carbon, one of the the most abundant elements in the universe, on earth, fundamental to all green AND human life, the foundation of our breathable atmosphere, of energy.
But is bad, and causes Gore-Bull warming so they say, so it must be taxed, because as we all know, taxes are the only thing that can can offset the global warming effects of all the carbon we produce by burning "fossil" fuels.
As our population grows and carbon emissions along with it, more and more "carbon taxes" are needed to nullify this phenomenon.
As we all know, because "scientists" said so, Carbon particles are highly intelligent little particles, or gases, (which ever form they prefer to be in) and they automatically trap less heat when they are taxed when released.
Thank goodness "scientists" discovered that these intelligent Carbons transform when they know greedy left wing governments, UN global governance Marxist elitists have lined their pockets with carbon taxes, and spread taxpayers money to line the pockets of all their friends and environut groups.
We'd all be doomed if it weren't for these "scientists", and our future is looking bright and rosy as every aspect of our lifes, every freedom, our happiness and prosperity is slowly stripped away by these carbon tax funded elitists who know better than all of us how we should live, what we should eat, think, say and do. They receive this great knowledge as compensation by the wise carbon particle, a gift in exchange for assuming the horrible burden and great risk lining their pockets with vast amounts of carbon tax brings upon them. they are sacrificing themselve for our benefit really.
( And they would probably believe all this stupid garbage I just wrote)
Wouldn't you have to reline it?
Science fiction has talked about the mono-molecular blade forever. Sounds like this might be the reality. Infinte sharpness and apparently equivalent strength.
There’s been talk on some other threads about how no innovation means we’ll be trapped in a depression forever. I see nano-materials as having the potential to be the greatest innovation and economic boon in history. Do more with less actual material. It’s even therefore “green,” in a way, although I expect lots of hollering fron environazis about the dangers of these materials. (Which may indeed exist.)
This government will ban it.
This government will ban it.
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