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Huge News: Safety Studies has shown that graphene can be used without adverse effects. Big for Nanotechnology, Biomedical, and Electrical Engineering (www.theengineer.co.uk)
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[-] just_change_it@lemmy.world 14 points 7 months ago

Researchers found that carefully controlled inhalation of the nanomaterial has no short-term adverse effects on lung or cardiovascular function.

I'll bet that long term this will result in cancer... like nearly everything else.

[-] Alteon@lemmy.world 4 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

I mean just about any kind of rock dust will cause silicosis. Apparently graphite causes graphitosis. If it doesn't cause cancer, it'll still drastically reduce quality of life - it can be extremely painful.

No idea about graphene though, but I'm glad that they are still performing safety studies on it. The material has a lot of extremely useful applications.

[-] GBU_28@lemm.ee 1 points 7 months ago

It's cool, graphene based cancer vaxx on the way

[-] bloopernova@programming.dev 10 points 7 months ago

Yeah, that kind of thing was said about plastics. And now we have microplastics in cells causing who knows what trouble.

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