{"id":6727,"date":"2010-10-08T05:16:58","date_gmt":"2010-10-08T10:16:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/?p=6727"},"modified":"2010-10-08T05:16:58","modified_gmt":"2010-10-08T10:16:58","slug":"promises-promises","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/6727","title":{"rendered":"Promises, Promises"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nick asks &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.finestructure.com\/2010\/10\/2010-nobel-prize-in-physics\/\">What&#8217;s the holdup?<\/a>&#8221; in bringing graphene into our everyday lives.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Here are some promises:  <a href=\"http:\/\/bigthink.com\/ideas\/24381\">Graphene Will Change the Way We Live<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>There are two sides to this coin \u2014 I can recall the promises made after high-temperature superconductors were discovered.  Levitating trains were right around the corner, and we&#8217;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.<\/p>\n<p>On the other side is that six years of basic R&amp;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&#8217;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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nick asks &#8220;What&#8217;s the holdup?&#8221; in bringing graphene into our everyday lives. &nbsp; Here are some promises: Graphene Will Change the Way We Live &nbsp; There are two sides to this coin \u2014 I can recall the promises made after &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/6727\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6727","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6727","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6727"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6727\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}