Graphene: Strongest Material on Earth
By ~ January 16th, 2012 @ 10:22 am
strongest thing on earth. short video from yahoo’s Who Knew
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January 16th, 2012 at 11:01 am
@autorun01 XD
January 16th, 2012 at 11:56 am
@xxxWWFANxxx well because graphite itself is very brittle, but its graphene that is super strong, and yes unfortunately there is a big difference between the two
January 16th, 2012 at 12:39 pm
lol i was playing with scotch tape and a pencil when i was young and my teacher said don’t do that, i could have won a nobel by then
January 16th, 2012 at 1:02 pm
@NottinghamAzn Cool story bro.
January 16th, 2012 at 1:29 pm
@xxxWWFANxxx Because graphite breaks, its graphene you want.
January 16th, 2012 at 1:53 pm
why arn’t tanks made of graphite
January 16th, 2012 at 2:49 pm
I have iphone case made of that
January 16th, 2012 at 3:12 pm
@iObsidian notch should add it xD
January 16th, 2012 at 3:59 pm
thx for the vid, very interesting to know!
January 16th, 2012 at 4:46 pm
@GamingReviewGuru graphene is a single atom layer of graphite
January 16th, 2012 at 5:35 pm
@iObsidian adimin
January 16th, 2012 at 6:11 pm
@GamingReviewGuru
but you can produce graphene with graphite… since technically, graphene are single layers of graphite (if im not mistaken)
January 16th, 2012 at 6:43 pm
my pencil is the strongest material in the world. sup now bitches
January 16th, 2012 at 7:36 pm
@meetsouder just take a big graphite pencil and draw a dot. you can then use that paper to cut through anything…
January 16th, 2012 at 7:38 pm
sooooo, where my graphene knife? one atom thick could cut through virtually anything, besides another atom!
January 16th, 2012 at 8:03 pm
veritasium
January 16th, 2012 at 8:39 pm
wait so is the ignoble a good prize or bad???
January 16th, 2012 at 9:32 pm
So adding layers of this “strongest material in the world” weakens it? Since they don’t say anything about graphite being strong. I mean, it is right? But you wouldn’t try to support an elephant on a fishing pole and if you did it would break, but REDUCE it, to just one atom thick and hey presto. I don’t get it. Is it purely tensile strength, i.e. weight bearing or can it resist powerful impacts? Will we see helicopter rotors and aircraft wings or even bullet-proof vests being made from this?
January 16th, 2012 at 10:05 pm
@IbombYourAss Thanks for your deep insight and general benevolence
Graphene doed indeed exist in single atom thick layers, however you can take one of these layers and roll it up into a pipe, or as scientists like to call it, a carbon nanotube. Then you could bundle lots of these nanotubes into thicker and stronger fibers, ropes and eventually cables.
January 16th, 2012 at 10:14 pm
@zoadam You’re an idiot….Graphene only exhists as a single layer, if you stack them up, it would become the brittle substance used to write – graphite.
January 16th, 2012 at 10:30 pm
@47948201 Your pencil is graphite, not graphene.
January 16th, 2012 at 10:33 pm
I though tungsten was, or maybe dimond
January 16th, 2012 at 10:40 pm
@Trisscarro With space elevators we could launch satellites for a fraction of the current cost. Telecom sats, space based solar powerplants, etc.
TVs are already quite good at power efficiency, we’d have to get rid of the gasoline powered cars to cut down on pollution significantly.
Or for a more hands-on approach: if a space elevator project started now, we could probably afford a space trip in our current lives.
Just how freaking cool is that?
I’d give all my TVs for that
January 16th, 2012 at 10:50 pm
@zoadam when people hear about space elevators they’ll react a bit like “ok neat but what’s in it for me?”. if however they understand that science leads to inventions(who’d have guessed that), they’ll be WAY more willing to fund/support research.
and on top of that, what is more important? to make an extremely power efficient tv tremendously decreasing pollution and creating a market boosting world economy.
or a elevator that goes very high.
January 16th, 2012 at 10:53 pm
@47948201 cus it’s graphite not graphene, DERRRRRRR