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Started by P3nT4gR4m, October 02, 2014, 09:57:39 PM

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two-dimensional metallic dielectric photonic crystal

Here was me thinking materials science was all about the nanotubes and the graphene but fuck me there's so much more to it than that!  :eek:

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Quote from: P3nT4gR4m on October 02, 2014, 09:57:39 PM
two-dimensional metallic dielectric photonic crystal

Here was me thinking materials science was all about the nanotubes and the graphene but fuck me there's so much more to it than that!  :eek:

It's also about making transparent aluminum and then immediately making it obsolete.

Materials science is a very broad field, and it's ALL sexy.
Molon Lube

Pope Pixie Pickle

Quote from: Doktor Howl on October 02, 2014, 11:13:28 PM
Quote from: P3nT4gR4m on October 02, 2014, 09:57:39 PM
two-dimensional metallic dielectric photonic crystal

Here was me thinking materials science was all about the nanotubes and the graphene but fuck me there's so much more to it than that!  :eek:

It's also about making transparent aluminum and then immediately making it obsolete.

Materials science is a very broad field, and it's ALL sexy.

TRANSPARENT ALUMINIUM? LIKE STAR TREK? :FAP:

P3nT4gR4m

Quote from: Doktor Howl on October 02, 2014, 11:13:28 PM
Quote from: P3nT4gR4m on October 02, 2014, 09:57:39 PM
two-dimensional metallic dielectric photonic crystal

Here was me thinking materials science was all about the nanotubes and the graphene but fuck me there's so much more to it than that!  :eek:

It's also about making transparent aluminum and then immediately making it obsolete.

Materials science is a very broad field, and it's ALL sexy.

Hell yeah! I remember you talking about transparent aluminium and sapphire crystals the size of your head but I never connected the two until now. It was all filed in my head under the label under the label "nanotech" but then I came across a wikipedia article on materials science and mind = blown.  :eek:

I'm up to my arse in Brexit Numpties, but I want more.  Target-rich environments are the new sexy.
Not actually a meat product.
Ass-Kicking & Foot-Stomping Ancient Master of SHIT FUCK FUCK FUCK
Awful and Bent Behemothic Results of Last Night's Painful Squat.
High Altitude Haggis-Filled Sex Bucket From Beyond Time and Space.
Internet Monkey Person of Filthy and Immoral Pygmy-Porn Wart Contagion
Octomom Auxillary Heat Exchanger Repairman
walking the fine line line between genius and batshit fucking crazy

"computation is a pattern in the spacetime arrangement of particles, and it's not the particles but the pattern that really matters! Matter doesn't matter." -- Max Tegmark

Faust

Even without a huge jump in technology solar cells have been steadily increasing their capacity per year between 3 and 5%

It doesn't sound like much but it's been enough to change a market mentality that four years ago pegged solar as too inefficient, to now being rapidly adopted.

It's still one of the more expensive technologies but rising energy costs and this trickle increase in efficiency have changed the return on investment from 20 years to 6 or seven which goes a long way towards helping market acceptance.
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Doktor Howl

Quote from: Pope Pixie Pickle on October 02, 2014, 11:31:37 PM
Quote from: Doktor Howl on October 02, 2014, 11:13:28 PM
Quote from: P3nT4gR4m on October 02, 2014, 09:57:39 PM
two-dimensional metallic dielectric photonic crystal

Here was me thinking materials science was all about the nanotubes and the graphene but fuck me there's so much more to it than that!  :eek:

It's also about making transparent aluminum and then immediately making it obsolete.

Materials science is a very broad field, and it's ALL sexy.

TRANSPARENT ALUMINIUM? LIKE STAR TREK? :FAP:

Yeah, but then it seems kinda silly, when you can make a single-crystal sapphire any size and shape you want.  It's like making something out of tissue paper when you could, for almost the exact same price & weight, make it out of stainless steel.
Molon Lube

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Doktor Howl

Quote from: P3nT4gR4m on October 03, 2014, 06:52:36 AM
Quote from: Doktor Howl on October 02, 2014, 11:13:28 PM
Quote from: P3nT4gR4m on October 02, 2014, 09:57:39 PM
two-dimensional metallic dielectric photonic crystal

Here was me thinking materials science was all about the nanotubes and the graphene but fuck me there's so much more to it than that!  :eek:

It's also about making transparent aluminum and then immediately making it obsolete.

Materials science is a very broad field, and it's ALL sexy.

Hell yeah! I remember you talking about transparent aluminium and sapphire crystals the size of your head but I never connected the two until now. It was all filed in my head under the label under the label "nanotech" but then I came across a wikipedia article on materials science and mind = blown.  :eek:

Nanotech is in the future, more or less, and isn't something we do yet.

Grinding aluminum oxide and then jamming it to 3500C so all the atoms line up in perfectly straight lines is something we can do now.
Molon Lube

Doktor Howl

Molon Lube

Faust

Quote from: Doktor Howl on October 03, 2014, 01:50:50 PM
Quote from: Pope Pixie Pickle on October 02, 2014, 11:31:37 PM
Quote from: Doktor Howl on October 02, 2014, 11:13:28 PM
Quote from: P3nT4gR4m on October 02, 2014, 09:57:39 PM
two-dimensional metallic dielectric photonic crystal

Here was me thinking materials science was all about the nanotubes and the graphene but fuck me there's so much more to it than that!  :eek:

It's also about making transparent aluminum and then immediately making it obsolete.

Materials science is a very broad field, and it's ALL sexy.

TRANSPARENT ALUMINIUM? LIKE STAR TREK? :FAP:

Yeah, but then it seems kinda silly, when you can make a single-crystal sapphire any size and shape you want.  It's like making something out of tissue paper when you could, for almost the exact same price & weight, make it out of stainless steel.

Hrm, apple were supposed to be replacing their gorrilla glass with a sapphire one for the new iphone, I think they are using it for the watches. Are they Tuscon based watch screens (can apple get scarier)?
Sleepless nights at the chateau

Doktor Howl

Quote from: Faust on October 03, 2014, 01:58:21 PM
Quote from: Doktor Howl on October 03, 2014, 01:50:50 PM
Quote from: Pope Pixie Pickle on October 02, 2014, 11:31:37 PM
Quote from: Doktor Howl on October 02, 2014, 11:13:28 PM
Quote from: P3nT4gR4m on October 02, 2014, 09:57:39 PM
two-dimensional metallic dielectric photonic crystal

Here was me thinking materials science was all about the nanotubes and the graphene but fuck me there's so much more to it than that!  :eek:

It's also about making transparent aluminum and then immediately making it obsolete.

Materials science is a very broad field, and it's ALL sexy.

TRANSPARENT ALUMINIUM? LIKE STAR TREK? :FAP:

Yeah, but then it seems kinda silly, when you can make a single-crystal sapphire any size and shape you want.  It's like making something out of tissue paper when you could, for almost the exact same price & weight, make it out of stainless steel.

Hrm, apple were supposed to be replacing their gorrilla glass with a sapphire one for the new iphone, I think they are using it for the watches. Are they Tuscon based watch screens (can apple get scarier)?

Yeah, we're involved in that.  I haven't been able to talk about it until recently, but then Apple spilled the beans themselves.
Molon Lube

Faust

That's really cool.

So how much will a sapphire the size of my head set me back?
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Doktor Howl

Quote from: Faust on October 03, 2014, 02:31:57 PM
That's really cool.

So how much will a sapphire the size of my head set me back?

About 2 million Euro, give or take, if it's just a spherical lump.  If it's grown to a shape, double that (or more).

Within 3 years, we expect that cost to drop by an order of magnitude, as we have a far better process now.
Molon Lube

Faust

Quote from: Doktor Howl on October 03, 2014, 03:12:35 PM
Quote from: Faust on October 03, 2014, 02:31:57 PM
That's really cool.

So how much will a sapphire the size of my head set me back?

About 2 million Euro, give or take, if it's just a spherical lump.  If it's grown to a shape, double that (or more).

Within 3 years, we expect that cost to drop by an order of magnitude, as we have a far better process now.

That's actually not as bad as I was expecting, considering a less then a decade ago it would have been the biggest naturally occurring sapphire, would only be priced at auction and would have been the plot point of Inspector Clouseau film.
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Doktor Howl

Quote from: Faust on October 03, 2014, 03:30:56 PM
Quote from: Doktor Howl on October 03, 2014, 03:12:35 PM
Quote from: Faust on October 03, 2014, 02:31:57 PM
That's really cool.

So how much will a sapphire the size of my head set me back?

About 2 million Euro, give or take, if it's just a spherical lump.  If it's grown to a shape, double that (or more).

Within 3 years, we expect that cost to drop by an order of magnitude, as we have a far better process now.

That's actually not as bad as I was expecting, considering a less then a decade ago it would have been the biggest naturally occurring sapphire, would only be priced at auction and would have been the plot point of Inspector Clouseau film.

This stuff is useless as a gemstone, as it is utterly flawless (Less than 1 PPM of any metal in the mix).  But yeah.   :lulz:
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