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If the sheet of graphene can't be pierced, it would protect from the most common mild injury in motorcycle accidents: road rash. (Right?) It'd prevent direct co
by SeoxyS 15y ago
If the sheet of graphene can't be pierced, it would protect from the most common mild injury in motorcycle accidents: road rash. (Right?) It'd prevent direct contact with the road, it'd prevent your clothing being ripped off and your skin being turned into ground meat.
Not that I really know what I'm talking about, but that was my line of thinking…
- hugh3 15y agoA sheet of graphene is one atomic layer thick. It's very easy to tear apart or pierce with any macroscopic object.
- geon 15y agoA "sheet" doesn't neccesarily refer to the molecular structure. In this contex, it would mean several layers composited together.
- hugh3 15y agoSeveral layers of graphene put together is graphite, and it's pretty non-magical.
- Unseelie 15y agoThe article is talking about a 'sheet', in the colloquial sense of the word, of the thickness of a piece of cling wrap.