Graphene spray and ...


Graphene film is here and I feel potentially incredibly interesting for our hobby.
Magico is coating their 7.5 inch speaker with graphene. Does anyone know 
what method they use?
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Graphene is basically 2-dimensional graphite. Graphite is soft and slippery because it’s in layers of 2-dimensional carbon atom "sheets" weakly bonded to other sheets of similar carbon.

Graphene is therefore a single "sheet" of carbon atoms arranged in hexagons. The carbon-carbon bonds in the 2-D section of graphite (and thus also graphene) are stronger bonds than carbon atom bonds in diamond, hence the "super" properties of graphene.

Graphene is right now rather difficult to make - it was literally discovered by putting a piece of scotch tape on graphite, carefully pullling up the tape leaving a single layer of graphene.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graphene_production_techniques <--- This should answer questions as to how one would apply Graphene to a speaker driver. It $ur€ won't b€ ¢heap....
The problem with graphene is it's basically a 2-dimensional substance, and that's not the most stable state for a substance to be in - it will tend to "curl up" into the more stable 3-dimensional state, unless special methods are used, like stated in the Wikipedia article.

Sort of related, B&W put a coat of diamond on some of their tweeters, I'm guessing using chemical vapor deposition.