Nobel Prize in Physics - Graphene

[Nemesis 1]

Graphite lubs are food semi-safe. (NSF H2 rated)

semi safe . Well seneca foods for those who want to know . Use no semi safe lubricants.

NO graphite lubs. HORMEL DOES however .

 

[Baasha]

Lead pencils don't actually contain any lead. Nor is graphite considered "bad shit":

http://www.pesticideinfo.org/Detail_Chemical.jsp?Rec_Id=PC33124

Besides that, graphite is made of carbon and, guess what, we are carbon-based life forms. So your god made us out of toxic stuff?

I lol'd.. .

 

[Throckmorton]

Buckyballs are a preliminary form of carbon nanotubes which are used in applications ranging from wind turbine blades, to electronics, to the medical and chemical industries. As manufacturing methods continue to become more efficient and cost effective we will see their use become even more widespread. New technologies take time to adopt and adapt.

OK, in that case maybe we'll get something useful

 

[werepossum]

Buckyballs are a preliminary form of carbon nanotubes which are used in applications ranging from wind turbine blades, to electronics, to the medical and chemical industries. As manufacturing methods continue to become more efficient and cost effective we will see their use become even more widespread. New technologies take time to adopt and adapt.

Yes, Nobel science prizes are not, and should not be, prizes for the most useful material or product. That would be the Nobel Prize in Engineering, were there such an animal. Nobel science prizes are and should be for ground-breaking research that promises a paradigm shift in the field. When these things and their creation are better understood and mastered, we should be able to literally create designer materials out of carbon. An actual universal fabricator is theoretically possible, creating a variety of objects with designed-in properties using a minimum of materials. Regardless of how far we can actually go down this road, these are materials and techniques that were barely dreamed just a generation ago, and they will no doubt teach us science and techniques that we can scarcely anticipate now - and appear in products we cannot now anticipate.

 

[IceBergSLiM]

It doesn't say what specific devices it could be used in, but I'll give you a few examples.

1. Flexible electronics. Graphene can stretch and can be stuck to flexible substrates and patterned into electronic gizmos. Imagine credit cards you can roll up, or a watch you can stick to your skin. Then imagine way cooler stuff.

2. Transparent flexible electrodes. Goodbye Indium-Tin-Oxide. Hello all sorts of cool displays on glass etc.

3. Better electronics. Graphene can conduct way better than copper, can be patterned more precisely than silicon, and can dissipate more energy per unit area than the surface of the sun.

how will the machines use it when they wage their war against humans?

 

[dainthomas]

how will the machines use it when they wage their war against humans?

Your stick-on watch will crawl up to your face and smother you when you sleep.

 

[CallMeJoe]

Why would Lord forgive me for that which the Lord has commanded me to do . There are few like minded people such as my self . I enjoy my minority status. Time has run out we shall shortly see who stands with Gods plan and who stands against it . Of course I am annoying . Even more so than ever because of New years eve , And its going to get even better , I will become not so annoying but a thorn that can't be removed.

For posting marginally comprehensible drivel and utter nonsense, claiming to do so in His name.

 

[silverpig]

how will the machines use it when they wage their war against humans?

The same way your refrigerator runs... very homosexually.

 

[Fenixgoon]

No one yet knows why it will be important to you, the average Joe. However - graphene has very unique and variable properties. Assuming it can one day be produced economically, almost anything with unique properties will serve in a variety of ways.

CNT's were supposed to do that over the past 10 years.

 

[silverpig]

CNT's were supposed to do that over the past 10 years.

I think I've seen nanotube ropes a few feet long. They're getting there.

Graphene could be useful as soon as we know how to reliably grow a single later on top of something.

 

[Matthiasa]

Yeah graphene is cool stuff, if I wasn't so lazy I could be doing some research on it at the university I'm at. Still not a clue how they are able to here given budget reasons though but whatever.

I think I've seen nanotube ropes a few feet long. They're getting there.

Graphene could be useful as soon as we know how to reliably grow a single later on top of something.

Umm we can do that now, just not cheaply...

 

[manimal]

This stuff is very exciting. I am most interested in the resulting mash ups of applications. There has been tremendous work in CNTs and its application in various fields and this should get many scientists thinking outside their current paradigms. Hard science and R&D like this give me hope for the future.

I also hope that innovation like this can start to trickle into everyday products faster and have as big an impact as say plastics were. What application was the nanotube rope you saw being made for?

 

[Hacp]

First Gore, then Obama, now Graphine? What has the world come to?

 

[silverpig]

This stuff is very exciting. I am most interested in the resulting mash ups of applications. There has been tremendous work in CNTs and its application in various fields and this should get many scientists thinking outside their current paradigms. Hard science and R&D like this give me hope for the future.

I also hope that innovation like this can start to trickle into everyday products faster and have as big an impact as say plastics were. What application was the nanotube rope you saw being made for?

I think it was being used as part of a NASA tensile strength challenge I was part of once.