Comments on: Graphene, The World’s Thinnest Material

By: Engr Awwal H Wakili

Engr Awwal H Wakili — Mon, 25 Oct 2010 09:42:53 +0000

Graphene is indeed a breakthrough in the field of Engineering materials. Because of the mecnaical properties and the ability to be utilized in the space application.My concern is the cost of the material and the ability of the material to withstand corrosive enviroment as well as the availability of the material.

By: Sammy K

Sammy K — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 17:55:27 +0000

Interesting fact:
Graphene can be made with Scotch tape. Google it.

By: Scooter

Scooter — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 17:23:10 +0000

I wonder if you took that football field size of Graphene and rolled it into a long tube if it could make a elevator to space with the resulting cord.

By: Helgar

Helgar — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 16:46:02 +0000

haha The plot of Star Trek IV was plausible, don’t make fun. =)

By: legatoistheman

legatoistheman — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 02:58:04 +0000

I am pretty sure Graphene is not new.

By: anonymoussss

anonymoussss — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 02:23:04 +0000

I love words like that! I also love carbon! It makes organic chemistry so much easier because it’s so much more logical than lots of other atoms. Yay.

By: PaulVI

PaulVI — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 02:12:03 +0000

The ultimate knife! As in: “Never needs sharpening! Cut tomatoes like the day you bought it!” (Billy, come back…)

By: Josh

Josh — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 01:50:11 +0000

Make it into a rope and you can climb a invisible rope. In the process removing half your hand.

Imagine making a stiff version of this. You would have the ultimate knife.

By: Greg Bowen

Greg Bowen — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 00:46:51 +0000

nasty paper cuts – oh crap there went my hand.

By: JustinButNotTHATJustin

JustinButNotTHATJustin — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 00:37:00 +0000

That structure is called a favose pattern. Now that you know the word you will be suprised how often you actually see it in your everyday life.

By: XuYu

XuYu — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 00:26:34 +0000

“In their book and PBS television series The Ring of Truth, Philip and Phylis Morrison asked, “How close to atomic size can we perceive with our unaided senses?” Their imaginative response was to place a quarter teaspoon of olive oil on the surface of a pond. As it spread, the film of oil could easily be seen on the otherwise rippled water. At its limit, it covered an appreciable area, some 2,000 square feet. A simple calculation shows that its thickness — rather, thinness — is a mere five-millionth (0.0000002) of an inch. That is, the diameter of a single molecule of oil.”

But that was a liquid, so maybe they were cheating.

http://www.northcoastjournal.com/issues/2009/06/11/our-amazing-eyes/

By: gurnorg

gurnorg — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 22:57:02 +0000

I wonder if it is air/water proof?

By: Alex

Alex — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 22:34:39 +0000

Finally! Something thinner than my wallet