So, you remember in Star Trek, those communicators that they had... little flippie things... Kind of funny how we have little flippie cell phones nowadays...
In one of the Star Trek movies, #4 I think... they went back in time to today's San Francisco to bring some humpback whales back to the future. They needed a huge holding tank and traded the formula for transparent aluminum for some thick acrylic sheets. Transparent aluminum is... well... aluminum that is transparent. Strong and clear... used for all sorts of things...
Well, just a few weeks ago, two Russian scientists received the Noble Prize for making sheets of graphene... using scotch tape of all things... Graphene is sheets of carbon atoms that are one atom thick. Graphene is super light, pretty much transparent and 100 times stronger than steel. Imagine the possibilties?? Computer screens. Satellites. Airplanes. Cars. All sorts of applications... And it conducts electricity supergood... Watch and see if films of graphene aren't going to take computers to the next level... And who knows... maybe it won't be transparent aluminum... it will be transparent carbon....
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