Graphene Could Be Dangerous To Humans and the Environment

Posted by samzenpus on Wednesday April 30, 2014 @09:26PM from the keep-out-of-eyes-and-mouth dept.

Zothecula (1870348) writes "It's easy to get carried away when you start talking about graphene. Its properties hold the promise of outright technological revolution in so many fields that it has been called a wonder material. Two recent studies, however, give us a less than rosy angle. In the first, a team of biologists, engineers and material scientists at Brown University examined graphene's potential toxicity in human cells. Another study by a team from University of California, Riverside's Bourns College of Engineering examined how graphene oxide nanoparticles might interact with the environment if they found their way into surface or ground water sources."

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Graphene Oxide? Its May 1st , not April 1st by Viol8 · 2014-04-30 21:32 · Score: 4, Funny

Graphene oxide is CO2 FFS.
1. Re:Graphene Oxide? Its May 1st , not April 1st by interkin3tic · 2014-05-01 02:23 · Score: 3, Funny
  
  Definitely a joke. Here's someone saying the full IUPAC name for the largest known protein (the apt common name being Titin.) If you have three and a half hours to kill, I'm sure it's enthralling.
Yeah, but... by Anonymous Coward · 2014-04-30 21:48 · Score: 5, Funny

Is it more toxic than the widely-used dihydrogen monoxide?
Re:One word by Anonymous Coward · 2014-04-30 21:54 · Score: 5, Funny

That's two words!