New Discovery Could Unlock Graphene's Full Potential

It's time for an update on graphene, that super material of the future! Scientists have come up with some new ways of making it that are easier and cheaper than ever before.


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The Story of Graphene
"Fascination with this material stems from its remarkable physical properties and the potential applications these properties offer for the future. Although scientists knew one atom thick, two-dimensional crystal graphene existed, no-one had worked out how to extract it from graphite."

Scientists cook up material 200 times stronger than steel out of soybean oil
"Many production techniques involve the use of intense heat in a vacuum, and expensive ingredients like high-purity metals and explosive compressed gases. Now a team of Australian scientists has detailed how they turned cheap everyday ingredients into graphene under normal air conditions. They said the research, published today in the journal Nature Communications, may open up a new avenue for the low-cost synthesis of the highly sought-after material."

Physicists patent detonation technique to mass-produce graphene
"Forget chemicals, catalysts and expensive machinery-a Kansas State University team of physicists has discovered a way to mass-produce graphene with three ingredients: hydrocarbon gas, oxygen and a spark plug. Their method is simple: Fill a chamber with acetylene or ethylene gas and oxygen. Use a vehicle spark plug to create a contained detonation. Collect the graphene that forms afterward."

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[openyoureyes]

woolly mammoth being genetically engineered, four dimensional materials are being made, and now graphene is almost easy to make I'm having an nerdgasm today

[oghomelesskid]

lighter then a plastic bag and stronger then steel?!?!
holay shit man

[Resonate]

Lets call it Vibranium
(ik its carbon)

[Master_Therion]

I hope the film industry doesn't use this, the last thing we need is for violence to be more *graphic.*

[Superlazerninja]

Now all we need is to combine Graphene with those new time crystals

[KevinLevy]

Space batteries. Graphene (like carbon used in the first nuclear graphite pile reactors) easily absorbs beta and alpha radiation (which can't penetrate skin or a sheet of paper). Unlike other materials it turns that radiation into electricity instead of heat. Heat is really difficult to get rid of in the vacuum of space and requires backbody radiators (heat sinks) in order to dissipate the generated heat. If RTGs could use a radioactive material that primarily emits beta and alpha radiation (e.g. Amercium found in typical home use ionization smoke detectors), then not only do you have a source of electricity that doesn't require heavy and cumbersome heat sinks to be lifted into orbit, but you also don't have to put the battery out on the end of a boom arm so it doesn't destroy your electronics and people.

[mixflip]

I want a graphene suit. Thin as a plastic bag and stronger than steel....

[dhanushkumar]

graphene is like our universe's version of vibranium

[kendelion]

Have you heard about Graphene?
It's kinda coal!

[ronnielee]

How did the prof accidentally discover a 1-atom-layer of carbon from an explosion? That's an interesting story there.

[humanityisafailure]

Is it bad that I just want to contain graphene to make a black panther costume

[SonicInu]

I'm trying to become an engineer right now! Last night I dreamed of all the mistakes I made on my Fluid Mechanics test. I legit woke up and was like that's what I did wrong!

[Kags]

I thought this video was going to be about the new MIT method where they use a spool of copper foil and move it through a reaction chamber sort of like a pizza oven. End result is a spool of graphene coated copper which can have the copper etched away by acid. Couple hours later they have several meters of graphene

[dbackscott]

BTW, becoming an engineer is one of the best things to happen in my life.

[Darkspoon]

Summary:Phones still do not charge in seconds.

[zolikoff]

Should probably clarify that the CVD-grown large film of graphene is *NOT* a single graphene sheet. It is made up of many tiny grains of 2-3 um sized graphene sheets. Thus, it is *NOT* mechanically strong, and would immediately smear like graphite if you ran your finger across it or tried to grab it. It is meant for electric applications (like screens) where proper mechanical support is provided, not as a building material itself.

[PandemoniumVice]

Discovered in 2004? You sure about that? Graphene had been known about for decades before that. It was in 2004 that a way to extract it from graphite was discovered. The process of extraction and graphene itself are two different things. Ya'll might wanna add an annotation for clarification or something.

[TarisRedwing]

"it's impossibly hard to make" scrolls down to 4th recommended video of guy making it in his

[TheSpicyPotatoe]

WHAT KIND OF ENGINEER DO I NEED TO BE ??? I REALLY WANT TO WORK ON THIS ..please I don't want to work in medical anymore

[StingerPhilip]

Yeah the world has enough of people and companies spending trillions of dollars on pointless sports, when only a fraction of that money would prove to be of better use elsewhere.