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The Naked Scientists Podcast

Why's Graphene Great?

The Naked Scientists Podcast

Dr Chris Smith

Science Radio, Engineering, Naked Scientists, Natural Sciences, Technology, Life Sciences, Health & Fitness, Medicine, Science

4.6957 Ratings

🗓️ 12 December 2010

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

Graphene is the focus of this week's Naked Scientists, including how it holds the key to the super-flexible touch screen displays of tomorrow, super-light composites and the next generation of computer chips. In the news, a breakthrough in understanding Alzheimer's Disease, why glider pilots should be paying more attention to how falcons fly and why a new exoplanet has led astronomers to question current theories of planetary formation. Plus, we celebrate the first chunk of cheese to make it into orbit and ask if there's any evidence of a health benefit from wearing magnetic bracelets... Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists

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Stripping down science, the 12th. Welcome to the naked scientists with me Ben Valsler and me

0:58.0

Dave Ansel. This week we're looking at an exciting and new material, Grafine.

1:03.6

Grafine is a carbon lattice, just one atom thick,

1:06.3

has some amazing physical and electrical properties

1:09.2

and the scientist that first discovered it

1:11.0

were honored with the Nobel Prize just this year.

1:13.0

We'll be finding out how it's made and we'll discover how it could soon be making flexible

1:17.6

computer screens, it could be protecting rockets from lightning and it could become the basis of super fast computer chips.

1:25.0

In the news we'll be hearing about a new super high density capacitors, a database

1:30.0

let you see the world as a bee sees it and the first spacefaring cheese.

1:35.0

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