Graphene tennis raquet?
Graphene tennis raquet?
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Machine Design magazine for March has an article about Fabricating 2D Materials. Graphene is one of the materials written about and is more than 200 X stronger than mild steel!!
Today on TV I noticed that Prince is advertising GRAPHENE tennis raquets. Can this be real or are they just playing with words? Besides, how can you make a tennis raquet one atom thick?
Today on TV I noticed that Prince is advertising GRAPHENE tennis raquets. Can this be real or are they just playing with words? Besides, how can you make a tennis raquet one atom thick?
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RE: Graphene tennis raquet?
We can forgive the BBC for their spelling of racquets
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http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/app.386...
The extract shows a fairly typical enhancement over neat resin. More of an improvement of basic resin properties, rather like nanotubes are at present, than a useful reinforcement like carbon fibers.
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