Vollebak Reversible Graphene Jacket M Ultra Light Waterproof Nobel Prize Winner

Description: BRAND: VOLLEBAK TYPE/STYLE: GRAPHENE JACKET RETAIL PRICE: $995 USD CONDITION: New Without Tags MADE IN: PORTUGAL SIZE: MEDIUM DESCRIPTION: Graphene is the first known true two-dimensional crystal. It can be represented as a single plane of graphite separated from the bulk crystal. It is estimated that graphene has a high mechanical stiffness and record high thermal conductivity. In 2010, Russian scientists A. K. Geim and K. S. Novoselov were awarded the Nobel prize in physics for "advanced experiments with the two-dimensional material – graphene". They are the first scientists who managed to get it in the laboratory way. While it's completely invisible and only a single atom thick, graphene is the lightest, strongest, most conductive material ever discovered, and has the same potential to change life on Earth as stone, bronze and iron once did. Graphene is simply the thinnest possible layer of graphite, the stuff used to make pencils. When graphite is reduced to a single layer of carbon atoms arranged in a hexagon formation, it turns into a supermaterial unlike anything ever known before – it's so strong and so stretchy that the fibres of a spider web coated in graphene could catch a falling plane. It's hard to experiment with something that only behaves one way, so we made the jacket fully reversible, so there is no inside or outside. One side is coated entirely in graphene. The other isn't. The graphene side looks gun-metal grey. The non-graphene side is matt black and made from high-strength, high-stretch nylon. Depending on which way around you wear it and what you do in it, the jacket will interact with your body and the world around it in a series of different ways. The first step to creating this jacket involves turning raw graphite into graphene nanoplatelets. These small stacks of graphene are blended with polyurethane to create an incredibly thin membrane, which is then bonded to nylon to create an entirely new material. Adding graphene to the nylon fundamentally changes its mechanical and chemical properties – a nylon fabric that couldn't naturally conduct heat or energy for instance, now can. And as graphene is only one atom thick, you can do this without adding a single gram of weight. Every panel of the Graphene Jacket is cut with lasers - the material is so expensive wasting it is not an option. And both pockets are laser cut with such precision that we've been able to leave the edges raw with zero stitching. All the panels are then bonded together and the seams sealed for waterproofness.

Price: 400 USD

Location: Wrightwood, California

End Time: 2025-01-18T16:06:12.000Z

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