Yogurtmaster Posted March 25, 2013 Share Posted March 25, 2013 This has a lot of potential... Source: http://io9.com/5987086/meet-the-scientific-accident-that-could-change-the-world Last year, researchers at UCLA made a rather fantastic, if serendipitous, discovery. A team of scientists led by chemist Richard Kaner had just finished devising an efficient method for producing high-quality sheets of the Nobel-prize winning supermaterial known as graphene ? with a consumer-grade DVD drive. That was groundbreaking in and of itself, but the real surprise came when Maher El-Kady, a researcher in Kaner's lab, wired a small square of their high quality carbon sheets up to a lightbulb. Then something incredible happened....... Alera 1 Share Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hum Posted March 26, 2013 Share Posted March 26, 2013 Sounds like someone is catching up to Tesla's research, of 100 years ago. He was able to light a room without bulbs at all. ;) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DocM Posted March 26, 2013 Share Posted March 26, 2013 https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/1137642-making-supercapacitors-with-a-dvd-burner/ Crisp 1 Share Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
astropheed Veteran Posted March 26, 2013 Veteran Share Posted March 26, 2013 Very cool, excited to see this in practice! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spaceelf Posted March 26, 2013 Share Posted March 26, 2013 Memristors would be cool too. Remember when those happened? Oh wait, they didn't :laugh: (Yes, I know ReRAM is due in 2015, supposedly.) It'll take another five years or longer before any part of it shows up in CE, I'm guessing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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