This is incredible and could prove of great value

[LordRaven]

Graphene breakthrough could trigger electric car revolution: Proton discovery paves way to super-efficient batteries
Graphene is the world's thinnest and strongest material that is impermeable to atoms and molecules
Researchers from the University of Manchester were surprised to find that positively charged hydrogen atoms - protons - can pass through it
Discovery could boost efficiency of fuel cells for cars generating electricity from hydrogen, by using a graphene-based membrane

At just one atom thick, graphene is the thinnest material on Earth and is also 200 times stronger than steel.
It was first isolated in 2004 by Sir Andre and his fellow researchers, who received a Nobel Prize in 2010 for their work.
The material is impermeable to all gases and liquids, giving it the potential for a range of uses such as corrosion-proof coatings, packaging and even super-thin condoms.
The new discovery, published in Nature, came about because the team wanted to investigate whether protons (hydrogen atoms stripped of their electrons) were repelled by the material, which is impermeable to the smallest atom, hydrogen.
They were surprised to find that the protons could pass through the ultra-strong material fairly easily, especially at raised temperatures and if the graphene films were covered with nanoparticles such as platinum, which acted as a catalyst.
Sir Andre and Dr Lozada-Hidalgo hope that graphene could one day be used in proton-conducting membranes, which are a crucial component of fuel cell technology.
Fuel cells, used in some modern cars, use oxygen and hydrogen as fuel and convert the input chemical energy into electricity.
But a major problem is that the fuels leak across the existing proton membranes to reduce the cells' efficiency. This problem could be overcome by using graphene.

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