World’s First Single-Atom-Thick Fabric
molecool writes "PhysOrg writes that researchers at The University of Manchester and Chernogolovka, Russia have discovered the world's first single-atom-thick fabric, which reveals the existence of a new class of materials and may lead to computers made from a single molecule. The research is to be published in Science on 22 October."
Ed. Note. The molecular fabric is single layer graphite (graphene) and which is hardly a "discovery". It is of course useful that it can be manipulated in the laboratory and possibly at an industrial level. For those with access to Science, the URL for the publication is here
October 25th, 2004 at 10:46 AM
Memory and Space Elevators
If this graphene could ever be mass produced it would have an immediate effect on memory (and may even usher in the holy grail of non-volatile RAM), and the strength of it when rolled up could have significant ramifactions for space elevators, which are just waiting for a material strong enough to make them feasible.