Physicists Make Electrons Flow Like Water (quantamagazine.org)
56 points by rbanffy 4 days ago
veryvisa 21 minutes ago
Graphene is incredible. We've known for a while about graphene's potential but until recently the methods for producing quality graphene were too inefficient/inconsistent. Dr. Chris Sorensen at Kansas State discovered a process to create pristine graphene synthetically (vs from graphite with the scotch tape method mentioned in the article). He is currently bringing this to industry at HydroGraph Clean Power. Exciting times.
gaze an hour ago
2d materials are so awful to work with but keep yielding these stunningly beautiful results so physicists must persist.
7bit an hour ago
Why should we change how we teach about electricity, when we can change electricity to confirm to how we teach! :)
spaceywilly 21 minutes ago
Well, the water analogy actually holds up quite well if you consider the charge field moving, not the electrons themselves. This guy has a lot of great videos using water channels to explain electricity. It is fascinating how under a high speed scope, you can see the electrical Charge “flow” like water down each branch of a circuit.