Post by Egann on Oct 19, 2016 23:37:27 GMT
I'm thinking of a content stream which would totally buck the gamer nerd image. Rather than me playing video games...I'd be playing with a chemistry set and graphene.
Allow me to explain:
I found a chemical supplier for dry graphene microparticle powder who sells it for about $2 a gram. I did some research and some math; graphene infused plastics usually run in the 2-10% by volume. ASSUMING it's real graphene and not just exfoliated graphite...and that I can make a formulation which is bulletproof (and some youtube chemists like Robert Murray-Smith claim to have done so) then it's possible make a bulletproof composite plastic with it.
More to the point, it would be a reasonably cost effective if it worked. El cheapo bulletproof armor is like the AR 500 armor plate, which is basically a steel plate spraypainted with truck-bed liner, and costs $125 and weighs a whopping 15 pounds (7 kilograms). Most bulletproof armor is aramid fiber kevlar, which is like the BulletSafe at $300 and 7 pounds (3.5 kg). Oh, and the Interceptor armor the army uses? $500 for a 4 lb plate which cracks after two or three hits. A graphene infused plastic would weigh on the order of half of the BulletSafe and cost about as much as the AR 500. And I'm including some space for labor in that assessment.
Now, the reason I want to make this a content stream and not a business is that I don't actually think this will work. But I really want to try, anyway.
So currently I'm thinking of making a channel recording my attempts to make a graphene infused plastic. I could use cheap art-project models to explain the molecular chemistry a la Good Eats, and I'm pretty sure something this bizarre and cool will be easy to get collaboration from real chemists on YT like NurdRage or chemistry infotainment channels like Codyslab.
Allow me to explain:
I found a chemical supplier for dry graphene microparticle powder who sells it for about $2 a gram. I did some research and some math; graphene infused plastics usually run in the 2-10% by volume. ASSUMING it's real graphene and not just exfoliated graphite...and that I can make a formulation which is bulletproof (and some youtube chemists like Robert Murray-Smith claim to have done so) then it's possible make a bulletproof composite plastic with it.
More to the point, it would be a reasonably cost effective if it worked. El cheapo bulletproof armor is like the AR 500 armor plate, which is basically a steel plate spraypainted with truck-bed liner, and costs $125 and weighs a whopping 15 pounds (7 kilograms). Most bulletproof armor is aramid fiber kevlar, which is like the BulletSafe at $300 and 7 pounds (3.5 kg). Oh, and the Interceptor armor the army uses? $500 for a 4 lb plate which cracks after two or three hits. A graphene infused plastic would weigh on the order of half of the BulletSafe and cost about as much as the AR 500. And I'm including some space for labor in that assessment.
Now, the reason I want to make this a content stream and not a business is that I don't actually think this will work. But I really want to try, anyway.
So currently I'm thinking of making a channel recording my attempts to make a graphene infused plastic. I could use cheap art-project models to explain the molecular chemistry a la Good Eats, and I'm pretty sure something this bizarre and cool will be easy to get collaboration from real chemists on YT like NurdRage or chemistry infotainment channels like Codyslab.
