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May 04, 2009
Monday
 
 
I love the future
Dale Amon (Belfast, Northern Ireland/Laramie, Wy)  Science & Technology

Lawrence Berkeley Labs has a movie here that shows Carbon atoms in live action movement in a sheet of graphene. That is the stuff you make when you drag your pencil across a sheet of paper and it may be one of the more important materials of the 21st Century.

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Absolutely fascinating, but aren't you mistaking graphene for graphite.


Posted by Frank at May 4, 2009 08:22 PM

No, graphene sheets come off the graphite tip of your pencil as you slide it across the paper.


Posted by Dale Amon at May 4, 2009 08:41 PM

I hate the future! They keep changing it! When will the paperless office arrive? Where are our aircars? Where's my home nuclear kit? Give us back our old future!


Posted by nuke gray at May 7, 2009 01:47 AM

Sorry, nuke, the future isn't what it used to be, is it? But then, I suppose neither is the past.

Seriously, that is a fascinating film clip. Thanks for posting it, Dale.


Posted by Laird at May 7, 2009 06:16 AM
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