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.

Does Graphene have a competitor in Silicene?

There's a new compound that may be closer to actual production use than Graphene - and it is Silicene. Single layer silicone with many of the same properties as Graphene.


Forget Graphene, Silicene Is Here to Blow Your Mind - Gizmodo
Well it looks like silicene is here to steal the spotlight. Researchers have just made the first sheet of single-atom thick silicon. Silicene has been a work in progress for years, but they think they've finally got it down now, and it represents a ... Move over graphene, silicene is the new star material New Scientist

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Will Silicene soon supersede Graphene?

Graphene in Sci-Fi (Night's Dawn Trilogy)

I have just started reading the Night's Dawn Trilogy by Peter F. Hamilton. I have seen a reference to a similar material:

The armour which went on top of his new shiny-black skin was a dull monobonded-carbon exoskeleton with a built-in cold-gas manoeuvring pack, capable of withstanding virtually any kinetic impact the Ruin Ring would shoot at him. The SII suit wouldn’t puncture, no matter what struck him, but it would transmit any physical knock. He ran both suit and armour checklists again while he clipped tools to his belt.