Graphene and future materials with Versarian
Everything Electric Podcast
The Fully Charged Show
4.9 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 29 June 2020
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
As Neill describes, Professor Sir Andre Geim and Professor Sir Kostya Novoselov of the University of Manchester discovered and isolated a single atomic layer of carbon for the first time in 2004.
Since then, an enormous amount of research and development has taken place developing this truly remarkable material.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the fully charged show Podcast. Now this week's episode is |
| 0:07.0 | really interesting. I've had a fascinating conversation with a wonderful man |
| 0:10.3 | called Neil Ricketts from a company called Vessarian. |
| 0:14.4 | Vessarian. |
| 0:16.6 | Once again, this is an amazing group that we have wanted to go and make an episode |
| 0:19.8 | with for a long time. |
| 0:21.2 | But during lockdown, I thought it worth talking to them about the work |
| 0:24.6 | they're doing which is I think it's it would not be wrong to say this is cutting |
| 0:29.8 | edge technology I'll just start with a couple of terms and words. One of the words is |
| 0:35.7 | graphene. That is a carbon sheet, one atom thick that can hold electrons. Just |
| 0:41.6 | saying that's what it is. A lot of you will have heard of |
| 0:44.4 | graphene. A while ago, a few years ago, not heard anything about it for a bit. |
| 0:48.3 | Stuff is happening. Okay and I'll say this, carbon on carbon batteries. |
| 0:54.0 | Okay, yeah, I'll let Neil explain. |
| 0:56.7 | But just before we get to that, and it is really interesting, |
| 1:00.0 | I hope you enjoy it, but I've just got to correct a couple of big wibbly |
| 1:05.1 | boobbly booboos I made in the last the most recent news episode of |
| 1:09.3 | fully charged on YouTube. It's nothing new is it Bobby Bobby made a boo-boo-boo-boo we've got to get used to it |
| 1:15.2 | and it's probably going to be a lot more coming. But I said that the Tesla |
| 1:19.4 | Model S, which comes normally can the Tesla model S 100 D can normally do well over 300 miles on a |
| 1:26.8 | charge and Tesla I said just modify the software now can do 400 it wasn't |
| 1:32.3 | quite as simple as that. Okay, it can now reach 400 miles on a charge. |
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