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I love the future

Lawrence Berkeley Labs has a movie here that shows Carbon atoms in live action movement in a sheet of graphene. That is the stuff you make when you drag your pencil across a sheet of paper and it may be one of the more important materials of the 21st Century.

4 comments to I love the future

  • Frank

    Absolutely fascinating, but aren’t you mistaking graphene for graphite.

  • Dale Amon

    No, graphene sheets come off the graphite tip of your pencil as you slide it across the paper.

  • nuke gray

    I hate the future! They keep changing it! When will the paperless office arrive? Where are our aircars? Where’s my home nuclear kit? Give us back our old future!

  • Laird

    Sorry, nuke, the future isn’t what it used to be, is it? But then, I suppose neither is the past.

    Seriously, that is a fascinating film clip. Thanks for posting it, Dale.