The "next" frame/component material?

[Tony T]

WSJ: Wonder Material Ignites Scientific Gold Rush (http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887323664204578610092869213354.html?m od=WSJ_hps_LEFTTopStories)

A substance 200 times stronger than steel yet as thin as an atom
NV introduced a graphene-infused tennis racket this year.

Head's racket is reflected in an application it filed for a patent on graphene in a wide range of sports gear, from golf clubs to ski bindings. A Head representative referred inquiries to its website, which says graphene's strength lets it use less material in the racket, allowing the designer to redistribute the weight for more power.

[retrofit]

Alternate article from 2011 (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/click_online/9491789.stm), if you can't get past the WSJ paywall.

"Our research establishes graphene as the strongest material ever measured, some 200 times stronger than structural steel," mechanical engineering professor James Hone, of Columbia University, said in a statement.
"It would take an elephant, balanced on a pencil, to break through a sheet of graphene the thickness of Saran Wrap [cling film]."

[Black Dog]

Yea, but is it vertically compliant and laterally stiff.

[data-san]

I heard graphene is good for head tubes.

[Elefantino]

Transparent aluminum: the next generation.

[JasonF]

Transparent aluminum: the next generation.

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[MadRocketSci]

Transparent aluminum: the next generation.

wouldn't be any lighter or stiffer....

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-Fo_miq__gnc/Tt_1zSHQ8gI/AAAAAAAACvI/yUw_kZ7CWqM/s640/ww-InvisibleJet1.jpg

[pcxmbfj]

Nice program on a PBS's Nova discussing material properties past couple of weeks.

[ultraman6970]

Star trek era is approaching. Hope they figure it out a way to make it cheap enough because that material can be used pretty much in everything.

If strong as they say would be better just repair a carbon bike using graphene than carbon.

[jimcav]

for nano-controlled spiders and silk worms spinning out frames

other than not rattling my old(er) bones the material doesn't make any difference to me. The only thing I haven't ridden multiple version of as far as material, is flax. everthing else has provided rides from sublime to soft to harsh, same material, put together differently.

[sashae]

http://www.retrobike.co.uk/forum/download/file.php?id=2085

BUT CAN IT STAND A CADILLAC.

[ultraman6970]

Add all carbon to one of those and the weight should be kind'a ok.

[Lanterne Rouge]

http://www.retrobike.co.uk/forum/download/file.php?id=2085

BUT CAN IT STAND A CADILLAC.

Want, always wanted one and still do.

Seriously check out the computers for checking out the key stress areas - what is not to love:

http://vimeo.com/68534760

[pakora]

and results of the rigorous testing are recorded on a laser disc.