[quote]Graphene, hailed as one of the thinnest, strongest and most conductive materials ever found, seems to have bagged one more amazing property. Experiments suggest that it can be used to create ultrashort laser pulses of any colour, owing to an ability to absorb light over a broad range of wavelengths.
The discovery could help researchers to build small, cheap and highly versatile ultrashort-pulse lasers, with potential applications ranging from micro-machinery to medicine.
Conventional ultrashort-pulse lasers use a material that absorbs light like a sponge and then releases it back in quick bursts, typically lasting for femtoseconds (one femtosecond is 10−15 seconds, or one millionth of a billionth of a second). These 'saturable absorbers' function only at specific wavelengths, says Roy Taylor, a physicist at Imperial College London. Applications such as monitoring pollutants in the atmosphere need to use multiple wavelengths to detect a range of molecules, so several separate lasers are required.[/quote]
[URL="http://www.nature.com/news/ultrashort-laser-pulses-squeezed-out-of-graphene-1.12911"]Dat sauce[/URL]
Is there anything this material can't do?!
It can't bring back batman's parents
[QUOTE=AugustBurnsRed;40786682]It can't bring back batman's parents[/QUOTE]
BREAKING NEWS: Graphene can facilitate time travel, exploration of parallel universes
More at 11
[QUOTE=FalconKrunch;40786667]Is there anything this material can't do?![/QUOTE]
To quote myself from another Graphene thread, presumably not give you cancer
If there is a god, he is made of Graphene.
Does this part sound odd or is it just me?
[quote](one femtosecond is [B]10−15 [/B]seconds, or one millionth of a billionth of a second)[/quote]
EDIT: Never mind it's supposed to be 10 to the negative 15 facepunch just makes it look funny
[QUOTE=FalconKrunch;40786667]Is there anything this material can't do?![/QUOTE]
Something it can't: Not being able to do everything.
[QUOTE=FalconKrunch;40786667]Is there anything this material can't do?![/QUOTE]
But can it give me a girlfriend?
How come whenever we discover something so wonderful it always has a catch 30 years later. I don't want that to happen to Graphene :(
And then lighsabers were created.
But can it see why kids love Cinnamon Toast Crunch Cereal?
[QUOTE=andololol;40788694]But can it give me a girlfriend?[/QUOTE]
it can draw one with lasers
she disappears if you try to touch her though
[QUOTE=Computrix;40789050]But can it see why kids love Cinnamon Toast Crunch Cereal?[/QUOTE]
because it has carbon in it
[QUOTE=AugustBurnsRed;40786682]It can't bring back batman's parents[/QUOTE]
[IMG]http://i.imgur.com/mP2QQdp.png[/IMG]
Graphene OP pls nerf
Graphene and carbon nanotubes.
Carbon, stay here. You're not drunk enough.
Update 7824.324:
-Removed Graphene and similar substances. Lifeforms are figuring out too much about it.
Can't wait for graphene underwear so I can rub my peanus on it
It would make a terrible fleshlight
[QUOTE=andololol;40788694]But can it give me a girlfriend?[/QUOTE]
As I posted in the last Graphene thread,
It can't love.
[QUOTE=Del91;40795558]As I posted in the last Graphene thread,
It can't love.[/QUOTE]
Make an AI running on a computer made of this stuff, and it will love.
But will it blend?
[QUOTE=Disgruntled;40791846]Graphene OP pls nerf[/QUOTE]
fix this broken game infinity ward.
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