It is said to be 200 times stronger than structural steel and can be completely digitised. It can be stiffened or be completely flexible. It is seen as giving technology companies a potentially world-changing, clean slate to create new products.
One professor commented that an iPhone made of Graphene could be rolled up and tucked behind the users ear like a pencil!
So what is Graphene?
- Graphene is taken from graphite, which is made up of weakly bonded layers of carbon
- Graphene is composed of carbon atoms arranged in tightly bound hexagons just one atom thick
- Three million sheets of graphene on top of each other would be 1mm thick
- The band structure of graphite was first theorised and calculated by PR Wallace in 1947, though for it to exist in the real world was thought impossible
- Due to the timing of this discovery, some conspiracy theorists have linked it to materials at the Roswell "crash site"
- In 2004, teams including Andre Geim and Konstantin Novoselov demonstrated that single layers could be isolated, resulting in the award of the Nobel Prize for Physics in 2010
- It is a good thermal and electric conductor and can be used to develop semiconductor circuits and computer parts. Experiments have shown it to be incredibly strong
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