Graphene

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It's a one-atom-thick sheet of densely packed carbon atoms arranged in a honeycomb lattice.

 

 

Put simply, it's a sheet of carbon atoms 150,000 times thinner than a human hair.

 

Under a powerful microscope, it looks like chicken wire.

But what's so special about it?

Everything.

For starters, it's 200 times stronger than structural steel...

It's so strong you could suspend an elephant from a single strand of Graphene...and the strand would not break.

It's extremely lightweight too...

Soon, everything from bicycles and boats to aeroplanes and cars could be made out of graphene composites.

And when they are, their energy efficiency and durability could skyrocket.

But that's just the beginning of what this new 'smart material' can do...

Not only is it the strongest material researchers have ever tested — it's also one of the best conductors man has ever found.

IBM has already created a graphene-based processor capable of executing 100 billion cycles per second.

Researchers believe that in the future, a graphene credit card could store as much information as today's computers.

Be clear...

This one material alone could prove more
revolutionary than — and soon REPLACE —
plastic, Kevlar and the silicon chip

 

In fact, it's such a breakthrough that the first two scientists to successfully produce single-atom-thick crystals of graphene were awarded the 2010 Nobel Prize in Physics.

And for good reason...

In just two years, over 200 companies from a wide array of industries have researched the magical potential of graphene...

· Scientists in the US and China are already using tiny graphene-based probes to target and identify tumours in live mice. They hope similar graphene-based particles could shuttle cancer drugs to tumours...or even kill tumour cells directly!

· Engineers at Northwest University, Seattle, found that specially crafted graphene electrodes could allow a lithium-ion battery — like those found in your smartphone or Toyota Prius — to charge 10 times faster and hold 10 times more power.

· And in 2011, chemists at Rice University, Houston, created graphene-based thin films — unlocking the secret to incredibly flexible, super-durable touch screens and solar cells that can wrap around just about anything...

Samsung have already said its flexible displays should enter full-scale production later this year — and it expects to have a dozen more graphene-based products on the market within the next five.

IBM, Nokia and Apple are hot on their heels too.

Touch screens..processor chips...casings...and batteries in everything from PCs and HD TVs to tablets, mobile phones and hybrids could be all made with graphene.

It could change entire industries...economies...and our lives.

Imagine..

HD TVs as thin as wallpaper...

Smart phones so skinny and flexible you can roll them up and put them behind your ear...and so durable you can beat them with a hammer!

It's mind-blowing.

Imagine how our world — and your life — would change if the batteries that run your iPhone...your Kindle...and your laptop held 10 TIMES more power and charged 10 TIMES faster than they do now...

If you could eliminate breast cancer or prostate tumours with a simple injection..or by swallowing a graphene-charged pill...

If your house were strong enough to withstand a bush fire — and your windows processed enough solar energy to heat your home in winter and cool it in the summer...

If the car you drove were six times lighter and 20 times stronger...The effects would be staggering!

Fuel-efficiency would shoot through the roof.

People would live longer, healthier lives.

Cars and aeroplanes would be lighter, faster and safer than ever before.

And electronics of every type would be launched into an era of unprecedented growth and evolution.

This is just a taste of the cutting-edge innovations coming in the Molecular Age...

...innovations that will reshape the future in the months and years ahead...and it's starting now.

You're looking at a simultaneous eruption of
new-age technologies that will alter our lives on a scale not seen for 100 years

 

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What year did Skynet become self aware?   

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Holy shit dude... 

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There’s a problem, though. Semiconductors, such as silicon, are defined by their ability to turn on and off in the presence of an electric field; in logic chips, that switching process generates the ones and the zeros that are the language of computers. Graphene, a semi-metal, cannot be turned off. At first, engineers believed that they could dope graphene to open up a “band gap,” the electrical property that allows semiconductors to act as switches. But, ten years after Geim and Novoselov’s paper, no one has succeeded in opening a gap wide enough. “You’d have to change it so much that it’s no longer graphene,” Tour said. Indeed, those who have managed to create such a gap learned that it kills the mobility, rendering graphene no better than the materials we use now. The result has been a certain dampening of the mood at semiconductor companies.