The strongest material on earth.

You could stack 1,000,000 sheets on top of each other to reach a height of 1mm.

If you stretched a sheet around a coffee mug, it would be strong enough to support the weight of a car.

11/18/2010 2:14:46 PM

now i want a graphene coffee mug

where can i buy one?

11/18/2010 2:15:22 PM

That, I do not know.

11/18/2010 2:16:23 PM

I would like to somehow chemically bond it to my bones.

11/18/2010 2:17:23 PM

I would like to somehow chemically bond it to my boner.

11/18/2010 2:18:04 PM

Quote :

"Graphene is a one-atom-thick planar sheet of sp2-bonded carbon atoms that are densely packed in a honeycomb crystal lattice."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graphene



Neat.

11/18/2010 2:21:39 PM

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11/18/2010 2:29:17 PM

Quote :

"which means that a stack of 3 million sheets would be only one millimeter thick"

Quote :

" You could stack 1,000,000 sheets on top of each other to reach a height of 1mm."

Which is it dammit?

11/18/2010 2:31:31 PM

^

I'm beginning to think this whole concept is suspect

11/18/2010 2:47:38 PM

I'm an aerogel man, myself.

11/18/2010 2:48:26 PM

I think I worked with this shit but it is very brittle and you have to be very carefull with it in the lab.

11/18/2010 3:03:46 PM

NPR Science Friday did something on this a few weeks ago. Fascinating shit. Science is awesome.

11/18/2010 3:05:34 PM

Science. It works, bitches.

11/18/2010 3:06:11 PM

Quote :

"NPR Science Friday did something on this a few weeks ago. Fascinating shit. Science is awesome."

11/18/2010 3:11:23 PM

Make it at home! Just rub some pencil graphite somewhere and peel off layers using Scotch tape. Everyone's a scientist!

11/18/2010 3:22:06 PM

just read the wiki, yep we worked with it by providing (cutting) special silicon carbide backings.

we did some other fun stuff with boron carbide too, I think? we always got cool stuff from the physics labs from Cambridge and some others I can't think of right now.

11/18/2010 3:24:11 PM

That's awesome!

11/18/2010 3:25:25 PM

Damn son, 1 atom thick? That motherfucker must have some sharp edges.

11/18/2010 3:25:49 PM

^^^^ That was actually part of the Science Friday episode.

11/18/2010 3:48:10 PM

sp3 bonded carbon is stronger. aka diamond.

This is the stuff I work with every day.

11/18/2010 4:23:43 PM

I too work with diamonds.

11/18/2010 4:54:01 PM

haha, true

11/18/2010 5:05:54 PM

I too get my bling on ya heard?

11/18/2010 5:15:26 PM