Here at the following hyperlink is (among other works of art) conceptual paper art by Dutch artist Caroline Reichart that mimics beams and shafts of light :www.designboom.com/weblog/index.php
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Re: Paper mimics light !
Fri, July 18, 2008 - 6:56 AMPaper becomes strongest material, tougher than rocks, immune to mortal scissors:
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Fri, July 18, 2008 - 1:28 PMThey didn't mention a practical application might be body armor... -
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Fri, July 18, 2008 - 4:34 PMI can think of so many applications for this stuff, and odds are the creators are already dreaming up ways for half of it. Forget the armor, I want super light materials like a car that only weights 200lbs or filaments to reinforce bones, or of course - space elevator! -
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Fri, July 18, 2008 - 5:37 PMToo expensive...
It's only going to be used for the smallest most critical apps because it's too damn expensive to manufacture... -
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Fri, July 18, 2008 - 9:30 PMSo were a lot of things when they first hit the market. My first computer cost five grand and that's in early 80's dollars.
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Sun, July 20, 2008 - 10:51 AMBryan ,
Muchas Gracias , for the hyperlink .
I want to check that out .
There's a Japanese architect I heard about a number of years that made elaborate and beautiful building structures out of ramified paper . -
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Sun, July 20, 2008 - 11:04 AMBryan ,
Read it. That's a damn fascinating article ! One aspect I'm fascinated with is its superconducting ability ,I wonder what posible applications might be in geting the superconducting property to dovetail/work in tnadem with the other properties of the graphene and, moreover, what could be done with amplifying any confluence between the two properties . -
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Fixing a typo
Sun, July 20, 2008 - 11:10 AMI had meant to type : 'work in tandem' .
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Sun, July 20, 2008 - 5:39 PMOnce they get manufacturing worked out and it becomes possible to produce reams of the material, you watch, it will make the era of plastic look pathetic by comparison. What I think has been under reported is the potential in construction. Imagine a beam but not made of steel, instead it's made of graphene, and so strong that it could withstand any impact, be taller than any other building and have the properties of meta materials. -
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Sun, July 20, 2008 - 6:15 PMIs it organic or rather, is it in any way recyclable ? -
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Mon, July 21, 2008 - 11:31 AMWell just so you know "organic" means anything composed of hydrocarbons. Lots of toxic waste is technically organic. However, the ability to break down graphene and other forms of nanomaterials is already a concern being looked into considering it's poised to replace so many conventional materials. -
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Mon, July 21, 2008 - 11:19 PMGood,
That's what I meant.
Our addiction to new technologies often gets us in trouble down the road...
Just saying.
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Fri, July 25, 2008 - 9:54 PMyou watch, it will make the era of plastic look pathetic by comparison
The Response: It is hard to resist saying (or typing rather) , that the era of plastic already looks pathetic ---from an aesthetic standpoint (and perhaps other standpoints) . -
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Sun, July 27, 2008 - 9:39 AMI meant that as more a comment on how plastics changed the world of manufacture, that it could be shaped into forms and structures that naturally derived materials could not and on a cost scale that could not be matched. In that regard, graphene based materials will prove to be vastly superior to plastic. -
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Mon, July 28, 2008 - 9:16 PMWell "the economy of scale" is highly overrated (as E.F.Schumacher and others have noted) , but otherwise, point taken , brother I-Barb .
P.S. One might wonder with more tinkering and exploration (even with the technology that was extant in the early 20th century) , other natural materials could have been obtained that would have had the tensile amlleability of plastic without the esthetic drawbacks and other drawbacks ?
The scientific prodigy :George Washington Carver made such amazing by-products as ink and housepaint , apparently out of peanut oil. It is not unthinkable that some other natural material that had been in abundance-- with perhaps the right chemical (or other ) engineering *at that time in the past even* , could have provided a by=product with tensile structures of malleable equalling or mayve even surpassing that of plastic ---without being so ugly as plastic !
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Mon, July 28, 2008 - 9:20 PMJust insuring that it be bio-degradable would be an important "innovation".Obviously it would not be applicable for all purposes ,but we change out stuff so frequently ,and throw so much away,this would at least insure it doesn't end up in a dead zone swirling around in the Sargasso Sea...
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Fixing a Typo
Mon, July 28, 2008 - 9:22 PM
amlleability of plastic<---That mispelled phrase that also appears in the above text, was a typo .
The right phrase would be 'malleability of plastic' .
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