Very cool. I'm sure the 20 ton press helps a lot but it is quite cool how much stronger a bit of graphene makes plastic. It's crazy that you only need half a percent. i went way high and started with a few grams of graphite mixed in with dissolved abs in acetone then sonicated it for a few hours. Made the abs stronger but the residual graphite messed it up. Guess it's important to make the graphene first then add it in, or start with significantly less graphite. And the idea to powder, mix, then heat must work far better than dissolved plastic. No solvent, stuff'll be much harder. Very clever!

This video literally set a fire under my butt to get me moving and experimenting with plastics and Graphene. I didn't do much work, getting the Graphene in the plastic is a little tricky. I made the plastic semi molten, and worked in dry Graphene, but I kept folding it over itself(like how they make Damascus steel, about 1-2mm thickness supported my own weight and I chipped it after whacking it with a hammer a dozen times! Amazing work Rob! Everyone....get out there and experiment!!!

I forget to say you Congratulations for you 20000 suscribers. Your channel is really a model to follow. Thanks again for all your work and your support.

i honestly love learning! thank you, i really mean that....for all your help

All fun aside... you just cut the cost of building spacedocks by a factor 6x6=36! 6x lighter than steel and 6x stronger!! Naughtynaughty! Now Earth will level much faster than intended... ;). You OP!

I like this video, you looked genuinely happy when you discover this material. I can see it

Excuse me Robert, you had a video about a ak47 bulletproof test on graphene, i can't find it now, where is it?

How much ratio between the plastic and graphene did you use?

always fun to see you having a good time. if you sheared your new plastic by squeezing it through some tiny holes like a spiders spinerets do you think the graphene would get oriented in the plastic & make the resulting thread stronger & more conductive?

I wish I could work with you and your team on Graphene and its wonderful properties!

New watcher here. I think this is absolutely brilliant.

I will upload this weekend:)

I will definitely post this week/weekend:) thank you Rob!

I can't wait to do more experimenting, so much can be done to improve it!:):):) Thank you Rob

I'm going to try my hand at this and mold a replacement flywheel for my car, bolt it in and see what happens!

Update 6 years later?

Awesome material you created there - thank you so much for sharing. Thermally - what happens if you put a soldering iron with say 300deg.C on the disc? Will it spread the heat better or faster than with an equally sized disc of copper?

what mesh graphite are you buying to make your graphene out of? love your channel btw when i stumbled onto graphene, yours was pretty much the only place i could find any info on it so big props sir "tips hat"

Graphene infused carbon fiber? 3D Printer resin? When I heard what it does to cement my curiosity was piqued.

3mm thick, 2 percent graphene/1.5 percent silicon nitride, breaks at almost 400kg :D

Does the graphene also amplify the thermal conductivity? Itd be awesome to make a plastic light wieght heat sink :)))

Hi Rob, really good stuff. It seems to be a good product. I was thinking about doing the same thing with sodium sillicate.

I know you said you can't tell us what the plastic is but could you possibly point me in the direction of figuring out how to make it into a powder for storage. I've made a few different bioplastics but they all have to be molded right after creating them while they are still in liquid form.

Could you separate a number of these discs and suitable separators to make a poorly-performing, (by your standards), capacitor that makes for its capacity with is high strength-to-weight and strength-to-volume ratios that allow a stack/row capacitor to be wrapped or surrounded by a tough insulating layer and them encapsulated by a structural layer of the same reinforced plastic to create super strong plastic tubes that have a super strong capacitor inside to form, effectively, a solid bar that can serve as incredibly strong, comparatively lightweight, utterly rigid structure of an electric vehicle which just happens to provide energy storage to be tapped when there is no more space for the FWG super capacitors?

Would hollow filled carbon-plastic plates and bricks filled with pressed waste or poluted ground get 1, 2 or 3 green certificates? How much for indestructible everlasting waste-brick cost the dozen? In Holland greenless building now is forbid.

Theres some magic here

Please can you tell me the, How to make a Quality Graphine wire's and cables at home.And What are the Basic Material and Process we want to use. Please make a video quality 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭

Can the white powder by any chance be casien (maybe mixed with some additives)? I know casien is also very hard if you turn it into a "plastic" but I am not sure if it turns into a plastic at 150c. Does anybody think it is possible to use casien?

Just curious if you have treated the graphene to form specific chemical bonds, or if it is behaving more like a dispersed filler? I am thinking I might try a polymer with aromatic rings. perhaps with an iron catalyst, and applying some low-level microwaves. . . The graphene regions should act as susceptors and create a high local energy. . Just an idea anyway.

RMS - you are an inspiration. Thank you for all your videos. It has re-ignited my school days love for chemistry! One question please: I will be mixing graphene in a plastic that has a melting point of 180C. Would mixing at this temp be of any concern re damaging graphene? Thanks.

Robert, which is the mold material you´re using?

"It is the glory of God to conceal a matter, But the glory of kings is to search out a matter." -Proberbs 25:2 Go out and take dominion over the earth!

yep i can see solid capacitors and solid electrolyte batteries.. looks like fun stuff. maybe u can make a plastic but putting some stainless steel powder or another metal ,aluminum powder and have two different metals but in the form of plastic..

Good job as usual :) now if it has the low solar property of that other experiment here goes solar road :)

Interesting. Does graphene it increase the strength of latex?

I was wondering, how do you mix in the suspended graphene? Let the solvent evaporate and mix in dry graphene or mix it wet and let it evaporate with the plastic? Thank you so much for the cool videos!

really good video..

AMAZING!

What about thermal properties???

Wait, this is really cool. If it's not a trade secret, what plastic is this? Thanks in advance.

This is very neat lots of uses and ideas are coming to mind. also what is the bio-plastic made of?

If it has good tensile strength, with it's conductive properties it could be an interesting material to make flywheels from.

Is it really just as simple as mixing graphene oxide in a polymer? I mean could you add graphene to plastidip? I’ve actually been considering trying that out.

hahah when you laugh you crack me up bad ...the workshop must be a fun place .. :-)

Torpedoes might not dent it. How about the heat from a torpedo blast? All onboard now FRIED CHICKEN!! Flawed!!! :)

Last question how do you heat the plastic? What equipkent do you use and process.

0.5% graphene added , Is it 0.5 % in weight or 0.5 % in volume ? :)

Robert, do you know of a good home method of cross-linking nylon?

I cant wait to find out what amount of stress that disc can hold up to

How did you disperse graphene in the bioplastic or in any plastic ?

What composition you used?

Have you tried substituting the graphene for nanotubes? They may offer some different properties.

Dude you'er so awesome!!!!!

Excuse me Robert, what is the mold material?

I want to start a factory of graphenr tyre manufacturing company... can someone consult / guide ?

Have you tried using the conductive plastic for electrolysis to make brown gas?

Could you be heading for an alternative to carbon fibre?

the discs of a turbine tesla with electrodynamic properties unknown

I figured, if people would like to perform ramen tests on their graphene in house.....this would be perfect and not even remotely as expensive as a lab built spectroscope....:-)

What is the white powder?

I tried that with sugru, but I lost my sample.

hello, I saw this for the first time,I'm trying to make thermal conductive plastic filled with 40% extended graphene in Twin screw extruder,I want that plastic would be comercially viable also. pls send useful inputs

Where did you buy your graphene from?

See if you can string some out like wire and wrap it in a coil to see if it will collect and give back more electricity than a copper coil pack check out this machine and see if you can give me some ideas not trying to get subs just thought you would be interested check out this youtube channel (Bunker Rogge) look at the generator mainly the wheel