<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto">They actually have a link for joining their team. It’s exciting but sadly I don’t have any skills that might be useful for them. <div><br></div><div>Maybe girl Friday.<br><br><div dir="ltr">SR Ballard</div><div dir="ltr"><br>On Feb 10, 2020, at 3:10 PM, John Clark via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><font size="4">High quality Graphene (sheets of carbon only one atom thick) is 200 times stronger than the strongest steel and yet its lighter (2.27 grams per cubic centimeter compared with 7.75 for steel's lightest alloy), and it's a much better conductor of heat and electricity than steel or even copper. But making Graphene had been notoriously expensive because it took so much energy and could only be made in very small amounts. In the January 27 2020 issue of the journal Nature DuY X Luong and associates report on a new way to make it that would use only $100 worth of electricity for each ton of high quality Graphene produced. I<span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">n</span> addition the new method requires no furnace or solvents and produced no reactive waste gases, they make it by vaporizing carbon with a <span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">powerful </span>electrical current in a vacuum chamber. And the starting carbon feedstock need not be purified, they say they can literally make high quality Graphene from garbage. </font><div class="gmail_default"><br></div><div><div><div><div class="gmail_default"><font color="#000000" face="Times" size="4"><a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-020-1938-0.epdf?referrer_access_token=eUQcPHAbDwbEu5VcG6e-WtRgN0jAjWel9jnR3ZoTv0MKPKAyhXjHc7o0U20SzfQtjOBkE0aXWjHL0L4L-WpsuY7SUUqE1B_SNdAU4yKW7arnl3g7HodRwWSTjW4WKQfFk3IVMNBObfQABunaWUq4QyW_GPCeG-KwJTsx8UYPhqKEIPT_IZlNZhT4yNm4B-Yb-U2h0gMaOXry20UeeAwB8NUEJdhc7NA311kJJoVqvIRzqrjCnNScdBzOzt6eh4H0wy-PzeoICrvACxvYv5iwAw%3D%3D&tracking_referrer=spectrum.ieee.org" target="_blank" style="">Gram-scale bottom-up flash graphene synthesis</a><br></font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font size="4"><br></font></div><font size="4">A new company called "Universal Matter" has already started up to commercialize this discovery. <span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">A</span> space elevator<span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> anyone</span>?</font><div class="gmail_default"><br></div><div class="gmail_default"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Georgia,serif;font-size:18px"><a href="https://www.universalmatter.com/">Universal Matter</a><br></span></div><div class="gmail_default"><br></div><div class="gmail_default"><font size="4">John K Clark</font></div><div class="gmail_default"><br></div></div></div></div></div>
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