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Comments on Buckypaper To Go Commercial Soon
Fascinating material may actually be available soon in commercial quantities as a product for use in aerospace and other industries. (Read
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| "Buckypaper could also be used to make unusual objects; take a look at this cool buckypaper origami crane:
Changhong Liu and colleagues at Tsinghua University, China are also working on techniques to create buckypaper; they were able to fold their material into an origami crane. (From Physicists roll out nanotube paper )"
(Bill Christensen 10/20/2008 12:32:02 PM) |
"Is this somehow different than Graphene?"
(dug 10/20/2008 2:17:56 PM) |
"Yes, although I'm not an expert in materials science. Graphene is a one-atom-thick sheet; it is literally a two-dimensional crystal. Buckypaper is created from an aggregate of carbon nanotubes."
(Bill Christensen 10/21/2008 2:00:30 PM) |
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