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08-12-15 | 06:54 AM

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erig007

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Originally Posted by Fly2High

Boron is great... until you get a fiber in your skin. It is like a barb and can penetrate bone. Real nasty to remove.

I think the next material will be improvements in carbon called graphene. It can be much thinner for the same strength.

Here is the layout of the carbon atoms. Graphene is 200X stronger than steel where as carbon fiber is only 2-3 X if I recall.

Here are some details from wiki:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graphene

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Carbyne

Carbyne: A new form of carbon that?s stronger than graphene | ExtremeTech

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[...]carbyne is about two times stronger than graphene and carbon nanotubes[...]

[...]The researchers found that carbyne is massively strong (6.0–7.5×107N∙m/kg, vs. 4.7–5.5×107 N∙m/ kg for graphene), very high tensile stiffness (it’s almost impossible to stretch), fairly chemically stable, and yet surprisingly flexible.[...]

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