Bill Gates funds the creation of thin graphene condoms

Graphene is thin, light and impermeable to everything except the smallest molecules (it is an excellent water filter, for example). Condoms, while being an excellent barrier to sexually transmitted diseases, are neither thin nor light, and this reduces sensitivity, which is why many people do not use them. The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation believes that the world will be better if people like to use condoms. Therefore, they decided to finance the development of thin, pleasure-enhancing graphene condoms.

Graphene, as you know, is extremely thin and durable - but you may not know that it is also one of the most heat-conducting materials in the world (only superfluid liquid helium has a high conductivity). Moreover, it seems that graphene is impenetrable for everything except water. All this together makes graphene an ideal material for condoms - beyond safe, and besides this is also so thin, light and thermally conductive that the feelings should be as if you are without a condom at all.



Of course, in fact, it is impossible to make condoms out of pure graphene. Pure graphene is transparent and only one atom thick - and these are not the properties that are needed in order to quickly put on the product in a fit of passion. The Graphene National Institute at the University of Manchester received a $ 100,000 grant from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation for searching for composite materials that could be used to make condoms more desirable than today's line of latex and polyurethane products. The University of Manchester in England is the place where graphene was first isolated using the famous “mechanical peeling with adhesive tape” method.
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Historically, when we talk about graphene, it almost always happens in the context of electronics. Possessing excellent electrical conductivity (the best in the world), ideal thickness (the grid is only one atom thick) and other exotic properties, graphene can revolutionize the production of computer chips and other electronic components. As has already become clear, the properties of graphene make it an excellent candidate in other areas: such as water filtration and anti-corrosion coatings. On a microscopic scale, graphene can be used to make condoms, but on a macroscopic scale, graphene and graphene mixtures can be used to create crazy, gravity-defying buildings or vehicles that will be many, many times smaller than their current steel-aluminum incarnations. “If this project is successful, we can get what will bring us [daily] benefit in the most intimate way ..” said Aravind Vijayaraghavan, the head of the research team in Manchester.



There is no strict time limit on the creation of graphene condoms - this is a matter of several years. The Gates Foundation gave out $ 100,000 grants to 11 different research groups creating condoms, including Rapidom (photo above), which can be put on in one movement (the wrapper is a clasp). A grant was also given to a team from San Diego, which is working on a condom soaked in collagen fibrils, extracted from cow's tendons, for "more natural sensitivity." The ultimate goal, of course, is to offer the world a tool that effectively prevents sexually transmitted diseases and allows them to “plan a family.”