I don't think that's the image people had in mind when they came up with the "elephant on a pencil" idea. The pencil point should be facing the graphene so that all the weight of the elephant is concentrated in the point. It's the opposite of the "eggs and cinder blocks" thing where the weight of the cinder blocks is distributed across a lot of eggs.
@Dreamslayer0987 Essentialy, the base material is cheap. The issue at the moment is learning how to manipulate it to be useable, hence there is still a lot science to go before this realises its full potential. There's more covered in our recent blog post technyou.edu.au/2011/11/graphene-the-wonder-material-potentially/
I don't think that's the image people had in mind when they came up with the "elephant on a pencil" idea. The pencil point should be facing the graphene so that all the weight of the elephant is concentrated in the point. It's the opposite of the "eggs and cinder blocks" thing where the weight of the cinder blocks is distributed across a lot of eggs.
gobipill 1 month ago
wouldnt this also be insanely cheap since its basically from graphite?
Dreamslayer0987 1 month ago
@Dreamslayer0987 Essentialy, the base material is cheap. The issue at the moment is learning how to manipulate it to be useable, hence there is still a lot science to go before this realises its full potential. There's more covered in our recent blog post technyou.edu.au/2011/11/graphene-the-wonder-material-potentially/
Thanks
Jason, TechNyou
techNyouvids 1 month ago
Thumbs up, and added to favorites.
vondarkmoor1 2 months ago
Veritasium + Graphene = Awseome. Thx for the brain food!
ZipLineAttack 2 months ago
Love it :)
EDUKWEST 2 months ago
This is really, really well done. Congrats!
sampinchies 2 months ago
simply awesome
ahsan2mahmood 2 months ago 8
"so how do you create something that tiny"..... aha.. hahaha
Mriliketofu 2 months ago
<3 Chemistry
9stairz 2 months ago
nice vid Derek :D still wish i can still listen to your classes, holidays are REAL boring now.. (Aaron)
xDingey 2 months ago
shibby
2dallahoe 2 months ago