[PetroniusMaximus]

That would make quite a knife.

[Shady]

Carbon is illegal under the new Cabal. Go to prison racist scientists.

[dr_who]

Graphite. Knew it. Yawn.

[allmost]

Physorg had an article about this. Looks promising. Carbon's cheap too. If they keep advancing the manufacturing process this could be huge.

[Dumpster Baby]

I want a shiny black bug suit to make me invulnerable. There’s things I want to do.

[Smokin' Joe]

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...

[dr_lew]

"A few grams could cover a football field," ...

Yeah, it COULD cover a football field ... if you could do it, you know?

[CatOwner]

Oh great, I guess I will have to buy the White Album again (paraphrasing from the movie Men in Black).

[scramaseaxe2002]

Tunable bandgaps for graphene layers are here now. Takes a structure of two parallel graphene monolayers. As per EE Times.

[paul51]

A few grams could cover a football field

Wouldn't you have to reline it?

[Zakeet]

Sounds like something the government would love to cap and tax.

[Captain Beyond]

bump for later read

[tophat9000]

and conducts electricity 100 times faster than the silicon in computer chips.

???? I think the laws of physics might disagree with that statement

[Brugmansian]

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?

[TChad]

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.

[Leisler]

[Hot Tabasco]

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

[Eye of Unk]

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.

[Rodamala]

A few grams could cover a football field...

Astroturf would be a better choice. :P

[Petronski]

I wonder if a sufficiently-large sheet of graphene could be folded in half more than nine times.