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Seems
\n like every week or so these days, the Dowbrigade reads about some epochal,
\n paradigm altering invention or experiment
\n or innovation that is sure to change the world. Many of these items
\n seem straight out of the science fiction novels we grew up on back in
\n the fabulous 60’s. Wasn’t just
\n a few years
\n later that we were whining that the inventing business wasn’t what it
\n once was because all thee good stuff had already been invented?<\/p>\n
Solar Scientists at The A team of British and Russian scientists led by Professor Geim have discovered Not only are they ultra-thin, but depending on circumstances they can Professor Andre Geim said: "This discovery opens up practically The materials have been created by extracting individual atomic planes The lesson here seems to be that anything that can be from the University of Manchester<\/a><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Seems like every week or so these days, the Dowbrigade reads about some epochal, paradigm altering invention or experiment or innovation that is sure to change the world. Many of these items seem straight out of the science fiction novels … Continue reading
\n sails<\/a>, mining
\n comets,<\/a> robot
\n camel jockeys<\/a> and
\n now, this week’s paradigm shifting invention, sure to be an industrial
\n underpinning to the infrastructure of the future: making one molecule-thick
\n materials look positively obese, British and Russian scientists (a formidable
\n and fiendish combination) have introduced an entire class of one-atom<\/em> thick
\n materials with a variety of enticing
\n properties.
\n Handle with care.<\/p>\n\n
\n University of Manchester<\/a> have discovered
\n a new class of materials which have previously only existed in science
\n fiction films and books.<\/p>\n
\n a whole family of previously unknown materials, which are one atom thick
\n and exhibit properties which scientists had never thought possible.<\/p>\n
\n also be ultra-strong, highly-insulating or highly-conductive, offering
\n a wide range of unique properties for space-age engineers and designers
\n to choose from.<\/p>\n
\n infinite possibilities for applications which people have never even
\n thought of yet. These materials are lightweight, strong and flexible,
\n and there is a huge choice of them. This is not only about smart gadgets.
\n Like polymers whose pervasiveness changed our everyday life forever,
\n one-atom-thick materials could be used in a myriad of routine applications
\n from clothing to computers."<\/p>\n
\n from conventional bulk crystals by using a technique called ‘micromechanical
\n cleavage’. Depending on a parent crystal, their one-atom-thick counterparts
\n can be metals, semiconductors, insulators, magnets, etc. Previously,
\n it was thought that such thin materials could not exist in principle,
\n but the research team have, for the first time, demonstrated that they
\n are not only possible but fairly easy to make.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n
\n imagined by the human mind will inevitably, eventually be created
\n by human hand.We anxiously await force fields, gravity nullification
\n fields and the Peace Drug.<\/p>\n