Graphene – The Chuck Norris of Materials
As everyone knows, Graphene is the Chuck Norris of materials. Sometimes pure, sometimes mixed with a little of this or that, it has an astonishing array of uses. Here’s a list of some of the things it can do
- Amplify light
- Cool microchips
- Detect diseases
- Enable CPUs that can operate at 100s of Ghz
- Desalinate water
- Generate electricity from flowing water
- Generate electicty from heat
- Generate electricity from light
- Generate electricity by being squeezed (Piezoelectricity)
- Kill Bacteria
- Make alcohol stronger
- Make an invisibility cloak
- Measure the fine structure constant
- Produce gas sensors capable of detecting a single atom
- Produce a better MRI contrast agent
- Support hyperfast optical networks
Here’s a brief list of some of its more interesting properties
- Highest known thermal conductivity
- Longest mean free path of any material at room temperature
- Repair Itself
- Stiffest known material
- Strongest known material
- Thinnest known material (Since it is one atom thick)
Related post: Fun with Graphene from the Wolfram Demonstrations project
Can’t wait for the CPU’s! Having 100GHz CPU in the laptop, and not have to wait for others to finish calculations on cloud, that would be something !