graphene
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Spiders Dosed With Graphene Can Spin Stronger Silk
Spider silk is one of the world’s strongest natural materials. Graphene is a super material with many amazing uses. So, oddly, scientists decided to combine the two by spraying spiders with the carbon-based wonder material — and the results were surprisingly impressive.
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Deep-Fried Graphene Could Be The Future Of Batteries
The wondermaterial graphene could have so many crazy applications: computer chips that run on light, saltwater electricity generation, and on and on. Perhaps most humble and important of all, though, is energy storage. South Korean scientists have found a way to make pom-pom-shaped graphene microparticles ideal for electrodes, and it involves a process essentially like…
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Graphene Foam Sure Looks Stunning Up Close
This isn’t some tortured starfish or CGIed brain synapse. You’re looking at an extreme close-up of graphene foam, captured using an electron microscope.
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Watch The First Graphene-Based Flexible Display Get Bent Out Of Shape
Graphene is one of those material science breakthroughs that’s so frequently described as a harbinger of technological revolution, it almost feels hackneyed. Almost, until an update like this rolls around: Scientists at Cambridge today demonstrated the first graphene-based flexible display.