Thinnest Material Ever Captures Nobel Physics Prize

Thinnest Material Ever Captures Nobel Physics Prize

The Nobel Foundation has awarded one of its famed prizes to a pair of researchers who developed a carbon substrate that's so flat it's considered a brand new material. The breakthrough could lead to ultrafast microchip transistors and other advances.

The Nobel Prize for Physics went to Andre Geim, and Konstantin Novoselov, whose work in quantum physics yielded a new material called grapheme. The Foundation said graphene, as thin as one atom, is a two-dimensional precursor material that will make it possible for scientists to develop a range of new consumer and industrial products.

Well they did it. I remember hearing about this a few years back but at that time it was just theory. This with other recent advancements you can expect all forms of electronics and computers to get even smaller, faster and lighter. The implications of the this breakthrough are staggering.

"When mixed into plastics, graphene can turn them into conductors of electricity while making them more heat resistant and mechanically robust. This resilience can be utilized in new super strong materials, which are also thin, elastic, and lightweight. In the future, satellites, airplanes, and cars could be manufactured out of the new materials,"

Wow, the implications are beyond my imagination.

"Since it is practically transparent and a good conductor, graphene is suitable for producing transparent touch screens, light panels, and maybe even solar cells," said the Nobel Foundation, in a statement.

Transparent touch screens you say? I see it being used for this soon enough:



I'd guess it will be "easier" to embed this technology into clothing or as a layer on the skin for health monitoring, art and interactive purposes (touchscreens, mobile phones etc).

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The potential applications of such material are almost endless. The military in particular were always on the lookout for something along these line for use in T-shirt thickness body armor etc. The weight issues with airplanes, fighter jets etc one could imagine all kinds of applications.

Beat you to it slayer

www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread616894/pg1

well anyone still think the us is the leader in world technology??????????? i dont

good for them id love the see the possible "spin off" applications.......


the future is now!

after a little more thought it just came to this pre department of education WE PUT A MAN ON THE MOON

post department of education all we have done is put man on tv ie reality tv,

the proof is in the pudding so to speak......

like i said this is great but it should have came from us everyone leads the us in technology these days and its a crying shame...

I can imagine batteries that have millions of "plates" one atom thick will have an inconceivable amount of energy density. Laptop batteries and electric vehicles are the most obvious applications that come to mind. I'm looking forward to that very much.

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Wow! Thank you... this is fascinating!

One atom thick?!

I guess this will revise what is actually meant by "thick." Hehe.

And, yes, as noted, the possibilities are indeed nearly endless, in almost any field or endeavor you can think of.

I'm pretty excited... especially about, oh, I'm thinking camera sensors, for those rovers... (the current bigguns of 56MP, which they don't even take up there for some reason... will be like little toys!).

I just hope I'll be in a position to enjoy the forthcoming "magic."

Peace.

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So tramp stamps will have a new use?!?!! Something to look at while hmmm and surf the net at the same time!!! Hey guys you'll never guess where I'm replying from lmao!!! Good find Slayer.

Great thread Slayer........just a few things.......

Im thinking new Materials for Corpmen in the field for medical supplies......


New body armor, and new material thats lighter weight and warmer.......hmm

Neat stuff man!

This is pretty cool, but why call it "two dimensional"?Technically speaking, even atoms have three dimensions, or else they wouldn't be able to exist as we obverse them, haha!

S&F

This materials innovation will change the world, beyond most people's imaginations. It will have as big an effect as steel did, and then plastics did, but perhaps even more so, because in addition to being the most incredible building material ever discovered, it is also a superconductor that is microscopically thin, stackable, transparent, etc...

It may effect us as much as the internet and the advent of the modern computer age. We'll start to really see and feel it in about 8-10 years I would guess.

The possibilities this material brings are nearly endless!

Hey you could make an uber-cool-pencil with these thingies....
Anyways, congratulations to the brainy ones who developed it.

It would appear that there is already a thread started here.

Please continue the discussion there.