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Tough material, 1 atom thick, has scientists abuzz
Richmond Times Dispatch ^
| August 8, 2009
| ROBERT S. BOYD
Posted on 08/08/2009 10:39:58 PM PDT by Swordmaker
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To: Gideon7
Physorg had an article about this. Looks promising. Carbon's cheap too. If they keep advancing the manufacturing process this could be huge. It sounds like Mithril in The Lord of the Rings. Mithril is the metal that the dwarves mined from the Mines of Moria. It was lightweight and extremely strong. They made armor out of it. It saved Frodo's life.
What if they made cars out of it? You get into a wreck. Since it is so flexible, it absorbs the shock of the collision. And if it can be given a memory, it will spring back into shade.
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posted on
08/09/2009 12:10:08 AM PDT
by
stripes1776
("That if gold rust, what shall iron do?" --Chaucer)
To: RandallFlagg
Some people are afraid of heights...I’m afraid of widths.
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posted on
08/09/2009 12:18:33 AM PDT
by
ffusco
(The President will return this country to what it once was...An arctic wasteland covered in ice.)
To: PetroniusMaximus
That would make quite a knife. LOL - that's the first thing I thought of, too.
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posted on
08/09/2009 12:42:50 AM PDT
by
Talisker
(When you find a turtle on top of a fence post, you can be damn sure it didn't get there on it's own.)
To: Gideon7
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posted on
08/09/2009 1:06:03 AM PDT
by
dcwusmc
(We need to make government so small that it can be drowned in a bathtub.)
To: Swordmaker
and conducts electricity 100 times faster than the silicon in computer chips. ???? I think the laws of physics might disagree with that statement
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posted on
08/09/2009 1:13:08 AM PDT
by
tophat9000
(Obama plans to fix America like he fixed his dog)
To: Swordmaker
Articles says graphene is one atom thick and then continues, "the only way to make graphene was to mount flakes of graphite on sticky tape and separate a single layer by carefully peeling away the tape."
Really? You can make material one atom thick with sticky tape?
To: tophat9000
Not really...The drift velocity of electrons is very slow about a millimeter per 5 seconds in copper wire if its 10 amps.
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posted on
08/09/2009 1:28:43 AM PDT
by
ciwwaf
To: Swordmaker
YouTube video of
Carbon atoms moving at the edge of a hole in graphene
The movie shows a high-resolution transmission electron microscopy study of the structure and dynamics of graphene at the edge of a hole in a suspended, single atomic layer of graphene. The injection of electrons causes ejection of carbon atoms, leading to rearrangement of the bonds at the edges into a zigzag configuration, which represents the most stable form.
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posted on
08/09/2009 1:37:45 AM PDT
by
TChad
To: ciwwaf
drift velocity of electrons is very slowTrue, but drift velocity is not conduction speed.
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posted on
08/09/2009 3:05:12 AM PDT
by
Right Wing Assault
(Obama - fooling fewer people every day.)
To: dr_who; Gideon7
The "ene" suffix means that it is a Fullerene, a variation of Buckyballs. Named after Buckminister Fuller.
These are pure carbon compounds, like diamonds and graphite, discovered by Richard Smalley in the 80s. Nano Technology.
To: Swordmaker
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posted on
08/09/2009 4:12:28 AM PDT
by
Leisler
To: Leisler; Quix
Despite its strength, it's as flexible as plastic wrap and can be bent, folded or rolled up like a scroll.Sounds like the stuff they found at Roswell.
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posted on
08/09/2009 4:23:14 AM PDT
by
dragonblustar
("... and if you disagree with me, then you sir, are worse than Hitler!" - Greg Gutfeld)
To: Right Wing Assault
They might have claimed it to be 100% more efficient but 100% faster is wrong, like you pointed out earlier. Still fascinating.
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posted on
08/09/2009 4:41:16 AM PDT
by
bluecollarman
(Everybody, looks good...at the starting line......."Paul Thorn")
To: Swordmaker
it's as flexible as plastic wrap and can be bent, folded or rolled up like a scroll.
I wonder if thats the same type of material that was allegedly found in Roswell after the alleged alien aircraft crashed...........makes one go Hmmmmmmmmmm
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posted on
08/09/2009 4:51:00 AM PDT
by
Hot Tabasco
(Who's your Long Legged MacDaddy?)
To: Swordmaker
It would be the type of material that conceivably could be strong enough to make an elevator to space, having an immense bedrock anchor on Earth and the opposite end connected to a geostationary station in space it would eliminate almost any need for Earth to orbit aircraft.
many sci-fi authors have written about this material, most recently the Blue Mars series.
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posted on
08/09/2009 4:57:19 AM PDT
by
Eye of Unk
("If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace." T. Paine)
To: Dumpster Baby
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posted on
08/09/2009 5:00:48 AM PDT
by
wiggen
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WayzmX0WQvg)
To: Eye of Unk
elevator idea was Arthur C Clarkes. Kim Stanley Robinson,while technically a fun read,solving problems of terra forming,still is,in all 3 books,writing about enviromentalism.
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posted on
08/09/2009 5:04:11 AM PDT
by
wiggen
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WayzmX0WQvg)
To: Gideon7
These guys claim to be making the stuff in a single continuous sheet (one giant molecule). The first graphene was made by applying tape to a graphite block and peeling it off. I think a lot of it is still made that way.
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posted on
08/09/2009 5:05:18 AM PDT
by
Moonman62
(The issue of whether cheap labor makes America great should have been settled by the Civil War.)
To: tophat9000
Silicon is one of the least conductive of all elements. I suspect the writer is not much on physics.
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posted on
08/09/2009 5:09:21 AM PDT
by
Straight Vermonter
(Posting from deep behind the Maple Curtain)
To: wiggen
elevator idea was Arthur C Clarkes. I believe he got the idea from a Russian scientist for his novel The Fountains of Paradise, though Clarke gets credit for the geostationary orbit for communications satellites.
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posted on
08/09/2009 5:09:25 AM PDT
by
Moonman62
(The issue of whether cheap labor makes America great should have been settled by the Civil War.)
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