This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
So how much closer does this put us to a space elevator? Assuming mass production and fiber creation was even possible.
Interesting material considering that one issue with graphene and carbon nanotubes etc tends to be that small defects in the crystal lattice majorly affect its mechanical properties. And it is very difficult to manufacture things with no defects. This being an amorphous material could mean that it is much more robust to local defects. Though I only skimmed the article.
We might see improvement on some deposition materials after the recent discovery on dolomite crystal formation.
Wafer scale material. Nothing to see here, move along.
I don't understand that unit of measurement. How many football fields is that.
Approximately 1.72 SB (standard bananas)
10GPa is about 2 billion footballers piled on top of a football field.
It's about 1 millifurlong.
I wish the article gave better explanation to how hard it is rather than just stating that it's not brittle... Could revolutionize the cutting tools industry if it's harder than cubicBoronNitride (CBN).
Word "could" means it will never happen
Defense industry will make this happen if it's viable. War industry drives much of this. So we will see
I'd be more sceptical if it said "will".
