Nick asks “What’s the holdup?” in bringing graphene into our everyday lives.
Here are some promises: Graphene Will Change the Way We Live
There are two sides to this coin — I can recall the promises made after high-temperature superconductors were discovered. Levitating trains were right around the corner, and we’re still waiting; though continual improvements were made, the thin-film materials never scaled up to bulk material, nor did the temperature get high enough to become practical for everyday use. The danger of overblown claims of the potential of a discovery is always present.
On the other side is that six years of basic R&D is a very short window. Others have mentioned the relatively short time it took to award the Nobel to this discovery, so I think perhaps it’s premature to expect finished products at so early a date. There may be other developments required to fully enable graphene in order to full exploit it.
also, high T superconductors tend to go normal when the current density goes up. high current density is desireable for commercial applications.
Enviro-whiners will be screaming about the unknown hazards of a monatomic film. Does it biodegrade? Can it be recycled? 100% Carbon Footprint! Do you want to live in a world of wind-blown graphene shopping bags shorting power lines and strangling sea turtles?
Nobody will risk boarding an airplane if graphene monatomic blades can be smuggled aboard to slash armored cockpit doors and soft warm throats. We must legislate an end to this Homeland Severity threat. We must pursue it with all possible heinous vigor, as we pursue all our innocent citizens who cannot shoot back.
The Bible says “cubic close packing” not hexagonal close packing!
Nanotesla emissions of computer CRTs Enviro-whiner demanded active degaussing coils to protect users from teh Official Truth of degenerative oozing putrescence. No maglev train torturing passengers with tens of thousands of gauss will be tolerated. Take a compass on a NY City subway ride or in a Tesla roadster. Magnetodamnation! We must all light candles and set out teddy bears.
Put a good magnet in a stout Baggie and drag it over dry land near a road. What keeps the powdered ferromagnetic crud of civilization way from twice 200 feet of supercon magnets?
even if it can be built into allot of stuff the specs need to be found to see if it will have any unforeseen uses to criminals or terrorists
” nobody will risk boarding an airplane if graphene monatomic blades can be smuggled aboard to slash armored cockpit doors and soft warm throats. ”
couldn’t they just make the door from graphene?