Thanks for the link, I've added it to my notebook.
I like how they don't know much about how it works but they have filed two provisional patents :-) Reminds me of the early days of Radio in some regards.
There are a lot of theoretically interesting things you can make out of carbon if you can arrange it "just so." The trick is always finding ways to do that at scale. I was fascinated by the carbon nanotube stuff and set about to build some, and while it is "easy" to build nanotubes, it is "hard" to build a specific kind of nanotube, or a nanotube of a specific length, or one with specific properties. All the ways of making them that I explored could make pretty much any kind (single/double walled, conductive/non-conductive). And you can pull one out and say "look here is this cool structure" but there wasn't any way to make a few hundred thousand without going blind looking through a microscope.
I like how they don't know much about how it works but they have filed two provisional patents :-) Reminds me of the early days of Radio in some regards.
There are a lot of theoretically interesting things you can make out of carbon if you can arrange it "just so." The trick is always finding ways to do that at scale. I was fascinated by the carbon nanotube stuff and set about to build some, and while it is "easy" to build nanotubes, it is "hard" to build a specific kind of nanotube, or a nanotube of a specific length, or one with specific properties. All the ways of making them that I explored could make pretty much any kind (single/double walled, conductive/non-conductive). And you can pull one out and say "look here is this cool structure" but there wasn't any way to make a few hundred thousand without going blind looking through a microscope.