Graphene

[cliveh]

Could graphene provide advancements in photography?

 

[snapguy]

For one thing

Well, for one thing, it could allow people to snap a lot more selfies and store them. Is this good or bad? Progress is not what it used t be.

 

[Dr Croubie]

In what way? As a film base or something?
Graphene's selling points are down to its electrical conductivity and strength/weight ratios. I'm not sure how it well it would fare in chemical photography.
Maybe it could have made good sound-recording strips on the edges of movie films? We're well past that era though.

 

[cliveh]

In what way? As a film base or something?
Graphene's selling points are down to its electrical conductivity and strength/weight ratios. I'm not sure how it well it would fare in chemical photography.
Maybe it could have made good sound-recording strips on the edges of movie films? We're well past that era though.

Perhaps as an ultra thin film base?

 

[Randalcav]

I actually work in a laboratory and grow graphene. Graphene is a polytype of carbon and only one or two atomic layers thick. Once it gets any thicker it's simply graphite. I have never run across any practical applications that relate to film photography or film chemistry. As Dr Croubie states it's applications are electronic and geared for competing against things silicon based. It is probably the strongest lightest weight material in the world. It is very difficult to produce in large quantity and high quality.

 

[Nodda Duma]

In the optical engineering world, graphene is anticipated to provide capabilities as a hyperspectral detector material . At work we've already been looking at optical designs in anticipation of graphene detector arrays being introduced in the next few years.