Graphene

[gray_marian]

The future of cell phones & more

Graphene? What is it? Watch this and Be Amazed.

What a future lie's ahead for us...Wow
Another revolution in electronics in the making...

https://www.youtube.com/watch_popup?...=TLf8g3CPufet8

[j.sabourn]

As the subject matter is based on graphite or carbon, hope they are going to be paying the carbon tax. A few more years and someone will come up with the bright idea that our climate change is after all induced by the atoms and molecules in the atmosphere being disturbed by electronic appliances. Then we will all be paying extra taxes on all electric appliances. Is as good a theory as some of those with Green ideas come out with. Science although a wonderful thing sometimes gets away ahead of itself. Even talking into a mobile phone face to face on screen was considered Dan Dare stuff in my days. If our parents could come back they still wouldnt believe it. John S.

[robpage]

It is also a British invention

[happy daze john in oz]

it is also a british invention

what !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!

[j.sabourn]

#3... A British Carbon tax then Rob !!!!. JS

[robpage]

Graphene is pure carbon in the form of a very thin, nearly transparent sheet, one atom thick. It is remarkably strong for its very low weight (100 times stronger than steel) and it conducts heat and electricity with great efficiency.While scientists had theorized about graphene for decades, it was first produced in the lab in 2004. Because it is virtually two-dimensional, it interacts oddly with light and with other materials. Researchers have identified the bipolar transistor effect, ballistic transport of charges and large quantum oscillations.

Technically, graphene is a crystalline allotrope of carbon with 2-dimensional properties. In graphene, carbon atoms are densely packed in a regular sp2-bonded atomic-scale chicken wire (hexagonal) pattern. Graphene can be described as a one-atom thick layer of graphite. It is the basic structural element of other allotropes, including graphite, charcoal, carbon nanotubes and fullerenes. It can also be considered as an indefinitely large aromatic molecule, the limiting case of the family of flat polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons.

Graphene research has expanded quickly since the substance was first isolated in 2004. Research was informed by theoretical descriptions of graphene's composition, structure and properties, which had all been calculated decades earlier. High-quality graphene also proved to be surprisingly easy to isolate, making more research possible. Andre Geim and Konstantin Novoselov at the University of Manchester won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2010 "for groundbreaking experiments regarding the two-dimensional material graphene".

A lot of the British have foreign sounding names , butt there is only one University of Manchester

[John Arton]

Needed the Oxford Dictionary just to understand 50% of the words in Robs post, let alone to understand exactly what grapheme is!
rgds
JA

[robpage]

A very thin fishnet stocking of carbon one atom thick which will give the geeks a new lease of life , but as it is a British development , I expect we will give it away like most things we discovered , possibly to Uncle Sam , or in this modern post Lima agreement age Uncle Wong , or Uncle Sanjitt

[Don Rafferty]

One word jumped out at me - aromatic, does that mean we can smell it? an indefinitely large aromatic molecule

[robpage]

Petrol is an aromatic hydrocarbon ,