RE: Plastic skyscrapers? Plastic airplanes?

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Now remember before we all get carried away with this the researchers involved came up with a two-dimensional product so yes I could see laminated versions of this being the new new. Then we have to ask ourselves this question from what resource is this new plastic going to come from? There's no reason not to suppose that we couldn't get it from growing vast mats of algae as a basic resource although we have tons of co al and if you want to throw it agricultural and forest waste to make the magical plastic of our dreams. For me I can see using perovskite solar cells sealed in this magical strong plastic product because perovskite upon exposure to air tends to crumble. Sealed within the magic plastic it could last decades. Energy problem solved as well as environmental no need for any thanks!

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On Friday, February 4, 2022 John Clark <everyth...@googlegroups.com> wrote:

In yesterday's issue of the journal Nature there is a report of a new super strong plastic called 2DPA-1 that is 5 times more resistant to deformation than bulletproof glass and requires twice as much force to break as steel even though it only has 1/6 the density. This remarkable strength could be achieved because chemists found an easy way to polymerize molecules in just two dimensions, something that had been thought impossible, so they can cheaply make sheets of this stuff and then stack the sheets together to make it as thick as they want. As a bonus, unlike most plastics 2DPA-1 is impermeable to gases so it can also be used as a thin coating to protect other materials from oxidation.

Irreversible synthesis of an ultrastrong two-dimensional polymeric material

John K Clark    See what's on my new list at  Extropolis

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