Vorpal Blade Material ?

mete said:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20101005/ap_on_hi_te/eu_nobel_physics

I don't understand all this high tech stuff .Are they talking about a graphite /scotch tape laminate to make a vorpal blade ???
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The article suggests the material would be very thin and at least initially expensive, hard to procure and difficult to work with in large amounts. At 100 times the strength of steel, you couldn't forge it. I doubt they'll be using it to make knives for a very long time but the possibility exists someday.
 
your joke wasnt lost on me Mete,:D I just wanna know how they used scotch tape to work with stuff 1 atom thick????

Jason
 
highly sophisticated procedure to get graphene:

write on paper with pencil
apply scotch tape
peel off atomic layer of graphene

Wish I were joking, but I went to school with people who did this.
 
Blackfeather said:
I always thought "Vorpal" was a magic quality imbued into the steel... :cool:
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Vorpal: This potent and feared ability allows the weapon to sever the heads of those it strikes:eek:

i wondered as well if the couple times ive seen it here they were referring to D&D
 
Vorpal blades are probably the only ones capable of slaying a Jabberwocky, Lewis Carroll predates D&D by quite a bit, and the word actually has no more meaning than "brillig" and "slithy toves" ;).

But will this new blade go "snicker-snack"?:D
 
gregorio said:
highly sophisticated procedure to get graphene:

write on paper with pencil
apply scotch tape
peel off atomic layer of graphene

Wish I were joking, but I went to school with people who did this.
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my understanding is that the scotch tape on graphite served as a spark of "hey, what if we could do...." which then they spent the next year or two figuring out.

pencil lead is usually not pure graphite though, but rather a mixture of graphite with clays and other binders so that manufacturers can create varying (but still uniform) hardness leads.
 
Seems like an awful lot of speculation without much information about the stuff. It naturally exists in graphite which can be sheared quite easily, who's to say that layers of this stuff, or 3D structures can be created with the same relative strength?
 
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