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To: Swordmaker

Graphite. Knew it. Yawn.


4 posted on 08/08/2009 10:46:45 PM PDT by dr_who
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To: dr_who

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.


11 posted on 08/08/2009 10:59:51 PM PDT by Gideon7
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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.

30 posted on 08/09/2009 4:05:21 AM PDT by Ben Ficklin
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