Tech question - what's next after Carbon Fibre?

It doesn't scale like that.

Graphene is interesting for its electrical properties, at even micro scales it's just graphite.

 

transparent aluminum

 

Forged carbon fiber will be next.

http://blog.caranddriver.com/lamborghini-and-callaway-golf-partner-on-carbon-fiber-research-create-forged-composite/

 

http://instantrimshot.com/

 

Do you mean like the Aluminosilicate they use on iPad and iPhones screens or the clear Alon (aluminum oxynitride) that is being use for balistics armor?

 

I think he means the material that Scotty used to hold the whales in the stolen Klingon Bird-of-Prey so they could slingshot around the Sun back into the future to prevent an evil alien destructo-ship from destroying the Earth. Scotty was bemused as he tried to talk into a mouse, saying "how quaint" when he was showing the engineers how to produce the material.

Checkov was in search of Nuclear Wessles.

[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=19BWJQ8kjrw&feature=related[/ame]
[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MdSJFrhb-HM[/ame]

JD

 

I work for a company that builds research machinery for companies like this, nanotechnology companies, and semiconductor companies (can't name names). But it's very interesting hearing about some of the materials we will be seeing in the aerospace industry in the next 5 years.

 

I like it for street cars.
Prolly too cheap for the F1 crowd

 

The notion that engineering strength vectors, in exchange for reduced weight, is some how a bad thing, tells you everything you need to know about how it's being marketed.

"In my city, we would keep [it in the country clubs, the tennis courts]. They're animals anyway, so let them lose their souls."

 

Expound please.

 

A benefit of carbon fiber is that it's strong in the engineered direction only, at minimal weight. Forged carbon fiber is heavier but is strong in all directions. Touting the "strength in all directions" as a benefit is misleading since you engineer that into the design of the part with standard CF.