• This is fine🔥🐶☕🔥@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    There have been constant news articles coming out over the past few years claiming the next big thing in supercapacitor and battery technologies.

    More like decades. Anyone remembers buckyballs and buckytubes? What happened to that?

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      7 months ago

      Nanotubes are still a thing, but most of the hype now seems to be around ‘buckysheets’ (graphene)

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        7 months ago

        There’s an old saying: “Graphene is so versatile it can do anything except leave the laboratory”.

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          7 months ago

          To paraphrase one of society’s less brilliant thinkers, “Who would have thought heathcare advanced materials science could be so hard?”

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        7 months ago

        I heard that nanotubes are being used in strengthening various materials. But yeah, not world-changing