If Marvel took Thor, Loki, Hulk, Iron Man, and ALL the X-Men, put them together into some sort of next generation super hero..... Graphene would put that super hero over its knee and spank it.
Take the strength of all the super heroes combined, the intelligence of ten of the GALAXY'S top geniuses, and the sex appeal of the most beautiful person that ever lived and you have graphene.
Just how Strong?
This material was discovered by Professor Andre Geim and his research group at the University of Manchester. Graphene is as thin as Seran Wrap and upwards of 200 times stronger than steel (if steel were put into a sheet that thin). Lets put this statement into prospective. According to Graphene Industries, it is strong enough to make an elevator tube into space, let that soak in.....ELEVATOR TO SPACE! I just hope they have better music than the elevators I've been in.
The best explanation for the strength of a sheet of graphene is this from a BBC News story by Alex Hudson. "It would take an elephant, balanced on a pencil, to break through a sheet of graphene the thickness of Saran Wrap [cling film]."
Remember the film that Superman threw on the General Zod? WEAK compared to graphene.
And it's Fast!
Well that's about it.....ya right. Not only is it insanely strong but since there is no break in the sheet it conducts electricity 200 times faster than the silicon that we find in our electronics now. The conductive power of this amazing material is insane, imagine taking the fastest computer that we can have at home, now take out your calculator for effect...multiplied by 200.
I don't know if that's going to be good or bad, I mean I have gotten so impatient as technology becomes faster that I sometimes find myself huffing if it takes more than two seconds to load a page on the internet. With graphene I might throw my computer because immediately just isn't fast enough.
Almost Forgot, Flexible
10, 10, 10 , 10, 10 Those are the numbers you would see if graphene went to the Olympics as a gymnast. We are talking about phones that wrap around your wrist like a silly band, can be folded like paper, how about rolling it up and putting it behind your ear. Ya that's the kind of flexibility I'm talking about. Maybe soon we will just stick a film on our wall and have an amazing television.
This new material is strong, fast, light, and super resistant to corrosion. The creators already won the Pulitzer Prize and a 1 billion euro grant. That means that it is the REAL DEAL. This is worth investing in. I gave you a simple explanation of graphene, I tried to write it in terms that everyone could understand. To learn more here is a link. Or you could just Google it.
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