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Graphene at 20: still no sign of the promised space elevator, but here’s how this wonder material is quietly changing the world (theconversation.com)
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[–] spankmonkey@lemmy.world 17 points 1 month ago (1 children)

No new innovation lives up to the hype, and it is good to see that a lot of realistic uses were found for graphene.

[–] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 11 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

The main barrier to the Stan Lee stuff is just that we can't really manufacture it with any quality. The author really should have mentioned that. It sounds like they may have some personal stake in graphene, though, and could be going for "actually, it was a success all along".