| | | Why Iron man ditched iron for graphene
By Jim Kakalios / Wired
CREDIT: MARVEL
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excerpt:
Vanity comes with risks -- and sure enough, an assailant that Stark has driven to despair pulls a pistol and shoots the engineer-playboy in the face, point blank. Fortunately for Stark (and for us fans, who know that our old, more heroic Tony will eventually return), he is unharmed, and reveals to his assailant that his face is actually protected by a thin, transparent sheet of graphene, invisible and yet stronger than steel. Being only one atom thick, graphene passes 97% of visible light, making it more transparent than most glasses, so we can indeed see his face through this thin, carbon "faceplate."
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