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Graphene is a one-atom-thick sheet of carbon. The discovery of graphene has been rewarded with Nobel Prize, in 2010 to Andre Geim and Konstantin Novoselov. It is real and has already been produced from graphite, the scale of production still remains the main restriction.

Most of the research is still at the early stage and graphene products have not yet reached the masses in commercial use, however there is a big push for investment into graphene.

Graphene, even though being the thinnest material ever, is super strong. Graphene may at first sound like science fiction, with all it's declared super attributes in many areas. Those include:
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Tuesday, May 15, 2012

Graphene goes into sound and sonic cloaking

There is an article in New Scientist that tells us how graphene could be used for sound cloaking. Apparently, it's properties allow the sound travel guided around or through objects!

Wednesday, May 9, 2012

Graphene paper discovery

Big news, big news! Scientists have developed a graphene paper.

Why is it big? Because the material binds water as well as repels it (What?). Now, it also has some shape memory and other features added to it.

This information is spreading quickly. Quite a few mentions on twitter, will give you a lot of results.

Tuesday, May 8, 2012

Will you be wearing Graphexeter soon?

There's a new material made from two layers of graphene sandwiching chlorine that supposedly makes graphene even more conductive without sacrificing transparency.

Scientists Invent Graphene for Wearable Electronics, Mirrors
Tom's Hardware Guide
The new material is call GraphExeter and is based on two graphene layers with ferric chloride molecules between them. According to the research report, ferric chloride greatly improves the electrical conductivity of graphene, but do not affect its ...

No estimate yet on when this new material will be available - but imagine the uses in women's bikinis!

Saturday, May 5, 2012

Graphene muscles for robots

There is a nice article about how muscles can be made of graphene for new generation of robots. Appears that the muscle technology is one of the few essentials that has been keeping the robotics at bay until now.

Check out the reference article at geek.com.