Jul 9 2009Graphene: The Material Of Tomorrow, Today

FERST!!!

i could use some new material

Good, finally managed. Ok never again. Promise. Maybe.
Now let me read the article.

i could use some new material

ooops...megafail

Next question(s): What's the cost to make it? Can I have graphene skin grafts?

OK - am I the only one that sees some freaky optical illusion? Stare at that picture of the graphene. Does it look like it's moving? Is it just me?

No it's not just you, it looks freaky when you scroll up and down.

My boners are non of your business GW. Not anymore.

I just think that finally when the mechanical overlords plate their armor with this they MIGHT have a chance against me in the COMING ROBOPOCALYPSE!!!

I know I risk sounding stupid, but if it's only one atom thick, is it even visible to the naked eye?

@10 BWHAAAA HAHA Yeah you sounded stupid. But i would like have a Kickass suit of armour made up of that stuff.

@7

it works like a magic eye too... just look through it for wacky 3d effects

...its a schooner

I thought spider silk is stronger. And radioactive spider webs are even stronger. Almost as strong as adamantium, which is what Atom Ant uses in his webs.

Oh, and that photograph is obviously a fake. The shadow's are all wrong. Its exactly like in the film Never Bend Down where Max goes around wearing a skin-tight outfit that's only one atom thick and shooting sticky webs at bad guys.

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

Doesn't all electricity travel at the same speed? Whoever said that is an imposter! Somebody do a background check on that guy, what if one of these fake scientists got their hands on the LHC!

sweet, DO WANT & DOES LOVE

@7
I noticed it as well.

Carbon does it again. YAY for Carbon!

But can I write on it with a pencil?

@10, duh, of course it's visible, even to the nude eye. Just look at the picture. You can see it, right? Jeeeezze. And people say I'm a moran.

Yet another modern miracle that you'll never see...

@18 you are i moran? i mean moron i said it the other day WHEN I WAS BONING YOUR MOTHER.....just kidden not cool i know. She is a very nice lady.

And what happens when something better comes along and the world throws this out?

What kind of crazy pollution will that be?

And @ 10, I don't think thats a stupid question, I was wondering the EXACT same thing.

I have a Graphine bonerrrrrrrrr
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@ 10

i would imagine that if you turned it sideways (ie you would be looking at a long line one atom thick) that you could not see it with the naked eye.

There was a little known scene that was cut from Terminator 2. At Skynet, they were experimenting with....Graphene.

Damn you scientists!! You've killed....us.

@20, that's not my mother, that's my dog. You may think she's nice now, but when you get to know her better you'll find she's a real bitch.

No hard feeling tho. I wish you 2 happeniss.

And you thought that paper cuts were bad. Just imagine how bad a graphene cut will be.

Didn't the new Batman from batman beyond have a sword that had an edge only one atom thick? I never watched the show but I thought I heard that from a friend in high school. Incidentally, I never got laid in high school.

@14 Seriously? Have you never heard of "resistance" or "conductivity" ?

Electricity comprehension FAIL.

They're going to start wrapping CD's and DVD's in this.

Two words... graphene condoms.

"A one-atom thick graphene sheet sufficient in size to cover a football field, would weigh less than a gram. It is also the strongest material in nature—roughly 200 times the strength of steel." BONER!

"Graphene displays outstanding electron transport, permitting electricity to flow rapidly and more or less unimpeded through the material. In fact, electrons have been shown to behave as massless particles similar to photons, zipping across a graphene layer without scattering." THRUMMING BONER!

"...graphene could eventually supplant silicon as the substance of choice for computer chips, offering the prospect of ultrafast computers operating at terahertz speeds, rocketing past current gigahertz chip technology." BONERBONERBONER!

"The sensitivity of graphene’s single atomic layer geometry and low capacitance promise a significant boost for biosensor applications. Such applications are a central topic of interest for Tao, who directs the Biodesign Institute’s Center for Bioelectronics and Biosensors. As Tao explains, any biological substance that interacts with graphene’s single atom surface layer can be detected, causing a huge change in the properties of the electrons.

One possible biosensor application under consideration would involve functionalizing graphene’s surface with antibodies, in order to precisely study their interaction with specific antigens. Such graphene-based biosensors could detect individual binding events, given a suitable sample. For other applications, adding impurities to graphene could raise overall interfacial capacitance. Ultracapacitors made of graphene composites would be capable of storing much larger amounts of renewable energy from solar, wind or wave energy than current technologies permit." BONER'SPLOSION!!

(Aaaannnd, THAT'S the new name of my band... boner'splosion!!)

Come on Daisy let's have it???? You running a little slow today or what?

@12

No it's not, it's a boat.

Scrolling up and down with the image in the center is making me dizzy

The news caption is pretty trippy-looking when you scroll up and down

@28, resistance and speed are two different things. It turns out there are different rates of velocity of electricity but Mr. Scientist in the post is still wrong because..
"In a vacuum the wave travels at the speed of light and almost that fast in air. Propagation speed is affected by insulation, such that in an unshielded copper conductor it is about 96% of the speed of light, while in a typical coaxial cable it is about 66% of the speed of light"

So there's no way it's going 100 times faster than in silicon and you can kiss my beefy ring!

@36 Dude, he said, and you quoted him: "...conducts electricity 100 times faster than the silicon..." CONDUCTION. Electrical _conduction_ is the movement of electrically charged particles through a transmission medium (electrical conductor). The movement of charge constitutes an electric current.

The electrical resistance of an object is a measure of its opposition to the passage of a steady electric current. An object of uniform cross section will have a resistance proportional to its length and inversely proportional to its cross-sectional area, and proportional to the resistivity of the material. It's called Ohm's Law.

Of course the speed of light is constant. Dolt.

You again = Electricity/reading comprehension FAIL.

Even if he's thinking of referring to processing speeds (which going from giga- to terahertz is 1 million to 1 billion) is ...and I'm no mathologist... 1000 times faster. Not 100.

I heard about this last year - really - in a Scientific American mag on a flight. Long live graphene! Move over SuperMan, my heart belongs to a new stronghold of the universe!

this is cool!

"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."

Silicon doesn't conduct electricity.What a moron of a scientist.

Obviously, this is what UFOs are made of.

@40

sem⋅i⋅con⋅duc⋅tor  /ˌsɛmikənˈdʌktər, ˌsɛmaɪ-/ Show Spelled Pronunciation [sem-ee-kuhn-duhk-ter, sem-ahy-] Show IPA
Use semiconductor in a Sentence
–noun 1. a substance, as silicon or germanium, with electrical conductivity intermediate between that of an insulator and a conductor: a basic component of various kinds of electronic circuit element (semiconductor device) used in communications, control, and detection technology and in computers.

A semiconductor has both properties of conductance and resistance.
Of course it isn´t a pure conductor, but, it still acts as one, nonetheless.

Do i hear Graphene condoms?

wait...no, this is actually bad....since it may provide folks with thin overall body armor if this stuff is that epic.

@43 - that would do well breaking down at least 2/3 populations, haha

Off the article that it links to.
"Until last year, 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. They called it the "Scotch Tape technique.""
Talk about awesome. That's beyond awesome. They should have used duct tape though.

it looks really trippy if you scroll up and down slowly
SWEETNESS

FAKE!!!!

This is a complete photoshop job. You can tell its a fake because the shadow's are all wrong.

This is exactly like that scene in the movie Never Back Down where Max was kidnapped by a computer, and his atoms were broken down and sucked into the computer. He was forced to take part in increasingly dangerous games and he escaped and had to negotiate his relaease with the various programs running in the computer.

GOOD JOB GW WRITER!

"conducts electricity 100 times faster than the silicon in computer chips"

Last I checked, silicon is robot blood... you just doomed us 100 times faster now that they can read this on the interwebs.

Glad to see they finally reverse engineered that stuff they found at the Roswell crash site.

And: Christ! Does this mean I'm going to have to buy another new tennis racket.

And: Has anyone tried scrolling up and down while looking at.... oh, everyone has? Never mind.

Since an atom is smaller than the smallest wavelength of light and his hence too small to diffract light, this stuff is probably not visible to the barenaked eye. Now, I want a graphene boner.

And by "his" I mean "is"

This is the single greatest thing on the entire internet.

> Imagine a carbon sheet that's only one atom thick but is stronger than diamond
OUCH. PAPERCUT.

This is probably another lab creation that's way too expensive to make and will never be cost effective for any sort of production. Ok, maybe computer chips. Maybe.

cool....!!

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2. paint them Red

3. become champion of the world

4. eat steaks

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