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Physicists Make Electrons Flow Like Water

62 pointsby rbanffylast Friday at 8:05 PM6 commentsview on HN

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stevenwootoday at 10:35 PM

I thought this was going to be a version of the story that appeared this week in New Scientist but it’s a different aspect of electron behavior, in the other article it talks about reducing friction in moving parts https://www.newscientist.com/article/2514425-physicists-can-...

veryvisatoday at 9:52 PM

Graphene is incredible. We've known for a while about graphene's potential but until recently the methods for producing quality graphene were too inefficient/inconsistent. Dr. Chris Sorensen at Kansas State discovered a process to create pristine graphene synthetically (vs from graphite with the scotch tape method mentioned in the article). He is currently bringing this to industry at HydroGraph Clean Power. Exciting times.

gazetoday at 9:19 PM

2d materials are so awful to work with but keep yielding these stunningly beautiful results so physicists must persist.

7bittoday at 9:07 PM

Why should we change how we teach about electricity, when we can change electricity to confirm to how we teach! :)

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tug2024today at 9:21 PM

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