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The world's first-ever hiking boots to use graphene have been unveiled by The University of Manchester and British brand inov-8.
Building on the international success of their pioneering use of graphene in trail running and fitness shoes last summer, the brand is now bringing the revolutionary technology to a market recently starved of innovation.
Just one atom thick and stronger than steel, graphene has been infused into the rubber of inov-8's new ROCLITE hiking boots, with the outsoles scientifically proven to be 50% stronger, 50% more elastic and 50% harder wearing.
How long before graphene-infused tires hit the market, too?
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TAPPING? You POLITICIANS! Don't you realize that the END of the "Wash
Cycle" is a TREASURED MOMENT for most people?!
(Score: 2) by Immerman on Thursday December 20 2018, @03:08AM
I think a better description is that a sheet of graphene is literally a single extremely large molecule, with every carbon atom reachable from any other by traversing only covalent chemical bonds - and one of the strongest covalent bonds.
Graphite in contrast is typically something more like flakeboard/chipboard, made of lots of small flakes of graphene all laminated together more or less at random. That lack of internal cohesion is what robs it of most of the properties of the constituent flakes. Each flake is every bit as strong and conductive as any other piece of graphene - but all those properties stop at the edge of the flake.