Saturday, December 07, 2013
Nanotechnology: The Graphene Game Changer
Graphene is a one-atom thick carbon-based material that is now recognized as the thinnest and strongest material in the world. And if that wasn't enough, it can conduct electricity as well as copper. It is a miracle material that will make the Internet go faster, and eventually let us see astronauts dressed in skintight suits instead of looking like they were swallowed by the Michelin home, notesTG Daily.
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The National Institute of Standards and Technology in Colorado said in arecent study that they have come closer than ever to making the substance available for commercial use.
The new graphene development has extreme conductivity and is completely transparent while being inexpensive and nontoxic. This makes it a perfect candidate material for transparent contact layers for use in solar cells to conduct electricity without reducing the amount of incoming light - at least in theory.
The ability to make the material so thin, yet strong, means that it can also be made flexible. This new material will allow manufacturers in the future to build objects in sizes and strengths that are nearly impossible today.
Much like a diamond, Graphene is made from carbon molecules, but unlike a diamond, Graphene will be flexible and practical. The commercial uses of a material like Graphene are nearly limitless, including tight body-shaped, skintight spacesuits of the near-term future, to the space elevator ribbon of the longer-term future, to the more immediate paper-thin, foldable cellular telephone. Watch the video below ...
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