Monday, August 4, 2008

Materials Update

Perfect graphene would be strong enough that a sheet of it would be able to withstand the weight of a car concentrated on a sharp point:

http://www.technologyreview.com/Nanotech/21098/?a=f

The concern about imperfect graphene sheets at macro scales shouldn't be a problem with mature nanotech manufacturing.

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