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by cbracketdash 1524 days ago
Title should be, "MIT Engineers Create New Material Stronger Than Steel, Light as Plastic, and More Expensive than Gold"
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For now. It sounds like the process to manufacture it could scale pretty well though. This could be just the beginning of a new class of material
Melamine is cheap as hell. The lab apparatus they used is expensive but this process is really scalable.

A stack of alternating graphene and layers of this material would be interesting - we're starting to get into mass produced molecular level materials engineering.

and the first iphone cost about... idk, $10m in R&D?