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This is absolutely awesome. Hopefully Nokia's involvement will result in the development of much more industrialized and efficient methods for making graphene/
by akiselev 14y ago
This is absolutely awesome.
Hopefully Nokia's involvement will result in the development of much more industrialized and efficient methods for making graphene/graphene oxide and cheaply layer it without using expensive lithography methods. Hopefully they will actually publish their methods instead of just patenting them.
Moreover, graphene may be cutting edge but it's incredible how accessible it is to citizen scientists. There is so much to explore and it's been less than a decade since graphene was first made. Full blown vapor deposition may be out of reach but there are plenty of chemical only methods or methods that require low vacuum (basically a bell jar vacuum) or high pressures/temperatures achievable without a lab. It was, after all, first produced with scotch tape.
- dclowd9901 14y agoBeing that this tech was funded by a European grant, are they not under obligation to publish research?
- akiselev 14y agoNo idea, these grants have complicated terms and probably quite a few loop holes. They'll still publish lots of the basic research but maybe not the really valuable industrial stuff.
- pfortuny 14y agoI do not think so: European Universities are largely State supported and afaik can patent whatever they want. But I do not know about this grant specifically.
- Jtsummers 14y agoIt's not uncommon for grants like that (in the US at least) to grant exclusivity rights for a period of time as a way to help motivate the research.
- sgt101 14y agoPatents are publications. You have to detail the whole of your method for the patent to be valid. In return you are protected for a limited period. The alternative is keeping things secret, like the recipe for coke!
- jivatmanx 14y agoIn Theory. In Practice it's often simply the statement of a vauge end result.
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- reinhardt 14y agoI'm kinda torn about such announcements. Here's a new material that is stronger, lighter, and thinner than anything else on Earth. 300 times stronger than steel! One atom thickness! How cool is that!? So you have this amazing breakthough and the (first?) application to use it is... "build cell phones that are extremely light, durable, and less susceptible to overheating"? Seriously? Should we feel excited for shaving off a few grams of weight from 0.12 kg toy gadgets and making them last longer? Most people rush to replace their iThingie N when then iThingie N+1 hits the stores after a year or two anyway. Are these real problems, even as first world problems go? Reading such news feels like hearing about a child prodigy with PhD in quantum physics at 16 working on ad targeting problems for Zynga...
- cududa 14y agoI disagree. For one, they aren't the only company included in this consortium. Having motivations of productization is actually a fantastic incentive for them to develop the technology to where it can be manufactured at a reasonable cost. Their work with the rest of the consortium will do wonderful things to bringing graphene into everything from consumer electronics to space exploration.
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- barista 14y agoI'm sure it will expand over time in multiple industries. Think Kinect. It started as a gaming device but is also starting to be used in physiotherapy and other medical applications.
- akiselev 14y agoIt is by no means the first application and certainly not the one Nokia will focus on. They will continue basic material science research into flexible electronics, LEDs/LCDs, and power storage. Graphene's uses are many more, however, including water filtration, transistors, meta materials, sensors, etc.
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