Praise Graphene: Graphene Is Strongest Material in the World even with Defects - Polidicks

[img]http://images.sciencedaily.com/2013/05/130531114733-large.jpg[/img] [quote] In a new study, published in Science, Columbia Engineering researchers demonstrate that graphene, even if stitched together from many small crystalline grains, is almost as strong as graphene in its perfect crystalline form. This work resolves a contradiction between theoretical simulations, which predicted that grain boundaries can be strong, and earlier experiments, which indicated that they were much weaker than the perfect lattice. ... In its perfect crystalline form, graphene (a one-atom-thick carbon layer) is the strongest material ever measured, as the Columbia Engineering team reported in Science in 2008 -- so strong that, as Hone observed, "it would take an elephant, balanced on a pencil, to break through a sheet of graphene the thickness of Saran Wrap." For the first study, the team obtained small, structurally perfect flakes of graphene by mechanical exfoliation, or mechanical peeling, from a crystal of graphite. But exfoliation is a time-consuming process that will never be practical for any of the many potential applications of graphene that require industrial mass production.[/quote] [url]http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/05/130531114733.htm[/url]

Wow. I can imagine this being pretty epic if used in bulletproofing/ spaceship construction to stop bullets/ meteorites.

where is my personal space elevator

But pencils always break...

mfw the elephant breaks [highlight](User was banned for this post ("Meme reply" - Orkel))[/highlight]

[QUOTE=gtaftw;40869517]But pencils always break...[/QUOTE] that graphite isn't in crystal form

[QUOTE=gtaftw;40869517]But pencils always break...[/QUOTE] So what, you'd rather they slice up your paper?

[QUOTE=gtaftw;40869517]But pencils always break...[/QUOTE] You can tell that english dry humour often goes over heads in fp.

[QUOTE=gtaftw;40869517]But pencils always break...[/QUOTE] Graphene =/= graphite

[QUOTE=innerfire34;40869556]mfw the elephant breaks[/QUOTE] mfw = my face when You forgot to add reaction pic.

[QUOTE=Recco;40870084]mfw = my face when You forgot to add reaction pic.[/QUOTE] maybe his avatar

maybe he didnt want to get banned

I want a knife coated in this stuff, would never have to sharpen it again.

[QUOTE=_Kent_;40870332]I want a knife coated in this stuff, would never have to sharpen it again.[/QUOTE] Why only a knife? Replace your arm for one made out of that stuff with a retractable blade! Be a motherfucking ninja assassin cyborg! But really, I really want to be around when the world gets saturated with uses for graphene and other stuff like it.

[QUOTE=SCopE5000;40869334]Wow. I can imagine this being pretty epic if used in bulletproofing/ spaceship construction to stop bullets/ meteorites.[/QUOTE] Except graphene bullets

[QUOTE=SCopE5000;40869334]Wow. I can imagine this being pretty epic if used in bulletproofing/ spaceship construction to stop bullets/ meteorites.[/QUOTE] Would be cool to throw a moderately sized ball of graphene at a meteor/asteroid/comet/whatever coming to murder us and divert its course or slow it down substantially.

[QUOTE=27X;40870368]Except graphene bullets[/QUOTE] I think at the usual velocities for bullets, a graphene bullet would just bounce off a graphene sheet without either thing being damaged.

the battlefield of tomorrow graphene armour vs graphene bullets nobody wins

[QUOTE=Mellowbloom;40870421]the battlefield of tomorrow graphene armour vs graphene bullets nobody wins[/QUOTE] Graphene wins.

[QUOTE=Mellowbloom;40870421]the battlefield of tomorrow graphene armour vs graphene bullets nobody wins[/QUOTE] Airsoft wars everybody shake hands at the end of the match and get head decapitated instead.

[QUOTE=Lambadvanced;40870380]Would be cool to throw a moderately sized ball of graphene at a meteor/asteroid/comet/whatever coming to murder us and divert its course or slow it down substantially.[/QUOTE] I don't physics work like that.

[QUOTE=matt000024;40870452]Graphene wins.[/QUOTE] Aim for the bare spots. If they're wearing sealed power armor, sucks to be you.

Hasn't facepunch already known that Graphene is the strongest material we have today for a couple years now? I mean, the article already cites 2008 for it.

[QUOTE=polarbear.;40870313]maybe he didnt want to get banned[/QUOTE] that and an imagination spongebob macro [editline]1st June 2013[/editline] [QUOTE=Mingebox;40870464]I don't physics work like that.[/QUOTE] guys i don't physics work like what do i do

[QUOTE=Mingebox;40870464]I don't physics work like that.[/QUOTE] Last I checked putting force on an object moves it, so... [editline]1st June 2013[/editline] And that's like, the point here, you smash it with strong enough material hard enough that its course is changed just enough to save us.

[QUOTE=Lambadvanced;40870507]Last I checked putting force on an object moves it, so... [editline]1st June 2013[/editline] And that's like, the point here, you smash it with strong enough material hard enough that its course is changed just enough to save us.[/QUOTE]That's kind of like making armor conductive enough to stop a bullet.

[QUOTE=Lambadvanced;40870507]Last I checked putting force on an object moves it, so... [editline]1st June 2013[/editline] And that's like, the point here, you smash it with strong enough material hard enough that its course is changed just enough to save us.[/QUOTE] You'd probably split it into multiple asteroids that would murder us even more. You'd need a really big ball of graphene to not just puncture the thing instead.

[QUOTE=Ogris;40870914]You'd probably split it into multiple asteroids that would murder us even more. You'd need a really big ball of graphene to not just puncture the thing instead.[/QUOTE] Well I'm sure there's some sort of science involved that could figure out the amount of force needed to not split it up and still have a good effect on its trajectory.

[QUOTE=SCopE5000;40869334]Wow. I can imagine this being pretty epic if used in bulletproofing/ spaceship construction to stop bullets/ meteorites.[/QUOTE] Bullet proof clothing, only lighter.

you'll still be able to shear sheets apart at the edges. And even then (trusting a single sheet as armour), though a bullet wouldn't penetrate it, it would flex and possibly do more damage than the bullet would have.