Graphene
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This shit right here. Everyone is always talking about how great it can be, but it's hard getting big amounts of it. When will we be seeing a graphene revolution? In the next 20 years?
The thing about grapheme is that it's thin. Once they get it all worked out you should be able to use Walmart garbage bags as a substitute.
>>51246448
>Once they get it all worked out you should be able to use Walmart garbage bags as a substitute.
>>51246470
It's thin and strong
>>51246362
>. When will we be seeing a graphene revolution
The select companies that are making it right now are getting very very rich even with their inefficient production methods. If anything they don't want a revolution until they can patent it and nobody can.
It really is a horrible fucking thing to try and make even on the small scale.
>>51246760
>If anything they don't want a revolution until they can patent it and nobody can.
All I feel is despair.
>>51246713
How would Walmart garbage bags act aas a substitute?
>>51246887
It's thin and strong
>good at conducting electricity
>thin as fuck
>hard as fuck
>made from the top 5 abundant elements
>transparent
>>51246948
So basically you're responding to a graphene thread without knowing the first thing about the physical properties that drive the graphene hype.
http://spectrum.ieee.org/searchContent?q=graphene
A couple different firms have claimed to discover novel ways of manufacturing large quantities of it, but I've never read any follow up on those claims.
That aside, everyone is playing with it at the moment. Sensors, micro heat sinks, batteries, capacitors, solar cells. Researchers world round are putting it in everything they think of, hammering out all its strange properties when exposed to X and Y condition.
Its the wonder material for the 2010s, like plastics were some decades ago.
Keep in mind though, reality has a way of being far more mundane then either optimists or pessimists predict. Many of graphene's unique properties are found elsewhere, and you're likely to see other materials doing what graphene has promised to do since they're easier to work with and long established.
Graphene Lamps are about to hit the consumer market in 2016
>>51247050
http://cleantechnica.com/2015/07/05/graphene-light-bulb-hitting-uk-market-soon/
>>51247050
>>51247081
That's pretty cool. It's a little expensive and the efficiency is a very small leap. Still, LED bulbs were expensive when they debuted as well.
>>51247151
yeah, i mean the bulbs are entirely manufactured in UK aswell so the pricetag is reasonable
will they make graphene dildos
>>51247960
Put graphene into everything.
>>51246994
>can be used as desalination device
>cuts through you're lung cells when inhaled
>light as fuck
>great heat conductor
>beautiful form to please people with autism and OCD
>>51246994
>>made from the top 5 abundant elements
it's LITERALLY just carbon
>>51248040
I meant from one of the top 5 abundant elements.
It might happen soon.
>In 2014 a £60m National Graphene Institute a £60m Graphene Engineering Innovation Centre (GEIC) were announced to support applied research and development in partnership with other research organisations and industry.[49]
>In North East England two commercial manufacturers, Applied Graphene Materials[50] and Thomas Swan Limited,[51] (with Trinity College, Dublin researchers)[52] have begun manufacturing. In East Anglia, another manufacturer, FGV Cambridge Nanosystems,[53][54][55] is operating a large scale graphene powder production facilities.
>>51248230
i mean intel predicted that graphene semiconductors are available at 2019 at best, 2021 if not.. the elites have their plans together already
>>51246448
are you a troll or just fucking stupid
>>51246948
>Graphene gets competition as a semiconductor: Black arsenic-phosphorus
>http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2015/07/150709113201.htm
IT'S OVER, GRAPHENE IS FINISHED
>>51248750
>black
dropped
>>51248067
Another way to put it without sounding like a clueless popsci ahmed would be "it's made of carbon".
>>51249668
Sorry you didn't like my clock.
I don't know, why don't you go read some papers on it? People seem to have this idea that science is some magical machine that progresses at lightning speed just because computers has progressed so fast.
>>51249721
It's only 20 years away just like fusion.
;_;
>>51247034
No, we know it's thin and strong.
>>51251465
Anon, please.
