Graphene enhanced thread.

[=sw=warlord]

prepare to be mind fucked.
It's been some years since I heard about this but the research is amazing.

The material graphene was touted as "the next big thing" even before its pioneers were handed the Nobel Prize last year. Many believe it could spell the end for silicon and change the future of computers and other devices forever.
Our research establishes graphene as the strongest material ever measured, some 200 times stronger than structural steel," mechanical engineering professor James Hone, of Columbia University, said in a statement.

"It would take an elephant, balanced on a pencil, to break through a sheet of graphene the thickness of Saran Wrap [cling film]."

companies like IBM and Nokia have also been involved in research. IBM has created a 150 gigahertz (Ghz) transistor - the quickest comparable silicon device runs at about 40 Ghz.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/click_online/9491789.stm
:neckbeard:

[Ifafudafi]

From the same article


"We feel that it's rather difficult to imagine graphene as a replacement to silicon... The material itself does not have a 'band gap', an essential property [meaning that graphene cannot stop conducting and be 'switched off', making it unusable in this way]. The applications of graphene and the application of silicon are in different domains."


"It is a dream... The prospect is so far beyond the horizon that we cannot even assess it properly."

I mean I'm all for miracle breakthroughs in technology but I'll hold off on getting excited for now

[Warsaw]

Would rather see it used to make better body armour than to make computer chips, to be honest.

[thehoodedsmack]

You would rather it be used for warfare than for scientific processing?

I understand you want soldiers to remain safe, but I don't think we have to choose one or the other.

[=sw=warlord]

Would rather see it used to make better body armour than to make computer chips, to be honest.

You'd rather see it used in warfare than used for processing and possibly used for new medical materials?
What is wrong with this world, everything that might help further technological advancement "Must" be used for warfare.
:smith:

[Cortexian]

Body armour =/= Warfare.

Body armour has so many more civil and private uses than it does in warfare tbh.

Also, I like how your argument is "instead of being used to keep people from being injured it should be used to help repair injured people".

[Amit]

Body armour =/= Warfare.

Body armour has so many more civil and private uses than it does in warfare tbh.

Also, I like how your argument is "instead of being used to keep people from being injured it should be used to help repair injured people".

I somewhat agree. The application of this item shouldn't be limited to only a few uses if there is enough of it that can be produced. However, Freelancer, not everybody who goes into an operating room came from a warzone. I don't see what's wrong with it being used as body armour, though. It makes sense.

[TVTyrant]

Why not just use it for both?????? I'm pretty sure plastics are used for a lot more than just action figures.

[Warsaw]

You'd rather see it used in warfare than used for processing and possibly used for new medical materials?
What is wrong with this world, everything that might help further technological advancement "Must" be used for warfare.
:smith:

Sorry, unfinished sentence.

What I should have said was "I would rather it be used in imminently more imperative things such as body armour rather than in trivial increases of computational power that we don't necessarily need right this moment."

More imperative things can include medical stuff as well, but given the structural properties of graphene (and carbon nantube), body armour was the first thing that came to mind. Of course we can do it all, but there is a more desirable order of implementation.

[Cortexian]

I'm pretty sure plastics are used for a lot more than just action figures.
pretty sure you're wrong

[sleepy1212]

Would rather see it used to make better body armour than to make computer chips, to be honest.

real stormtroopers :guns101:

[Warsaw]

real stormtroopers :guns101:

http://m1.ikiwq.com/img/xl/qg6kNhWLw6OYRojE7Jsxdb.jpg

[sleepy1212]

I said real stormtroopers dammit!

http://www.coolest-gadgets.com/wp-content/uploads/2006/09/stormtrooper.jpg

[Warsaw]

:p

[Corndogman]

Fuck stormtroopers, I'm thinking space elevator.

[Warsaw]

Let's hijack Apophis when it comes near for just such an endeavour!