• Graphene research gets £21.5m investment fund
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[IMG]http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media/images/55053000/jpg/_55053743_t93m65z7.jpg[/IMG] [quote]It is one of the lightest, strongest and most conductive materials known, with great commercialisation potential.Now, £21.5m - £12m from [URL="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-15152609"]a 2011 funding of £50m[/URL]and nearly £10m from the science research council EPSRC - will be allocated to specific universities. In addition, those universities and their industrial partners will commit a total of £14m to the effort. Mr Osborne said the investment fund would aim to take the technology "from the British laboratory to the British factory floor". Graphene is sheets of carbon just one atom thick - the very same material making up a pencil's "lead", but with record-breaking mechanical strength and electronic properties. Manchester University academics Andre Geim and Konstantin Novoselov won the [URL="http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/2010/"]2010 physics Nobel Prize in Physics[/URL] for isolating the material and measuring some of its astounding properties.[/quote] Read more at the [URL="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-20846282"]source[/URL]
Prepare for the future
graphene and carbon nanotubes are the cure to every problem
[QUOTE=Red scout?;38992236]graphene and carbon nanotubes are the cure to every problem[/QUOTE] Don't forget stem cells.
[QUOTE=mac338;38992273]Don't forget stem cells.[/QUOTE]Combine the three for invincibility.
don't forget quantum dots
qubits/quantum computing, nanobots, stem cells, graphene etc. We'll see which ones are viable and which ones aren't, if any of them are. Time will tell, hopefully.
[QUOTE=Ithon;38999559]don't forget quantum dots[/QUOTE] Combine the four and know the score: [I]You have cancer.[/I]
in the future, everything is hexagons! PERHAPS BECAUSE CARBON
I know a shit-ton about graphene because there's a poster about it in my physics classroom.
[IMG]http://www.facepunch.com/fp/ratings/winner.png[/IMG] Winner x [b]∞[/b]
Stuff about graphene always makes me smile because my mum used to work for a company that handled the patent for it.
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