What is Graphene?

is a 2D material essentially consisting of a monolayer of carbon atoms tightly sequenced in a honeycomb hexagonal lattice. A Wonder Material with almost limitless possibilities!

Graphene

PROPERTIES

Graphene is lightweight, ultra-thin, almost transparent, super strong (100-300x stronger than steel) and highly flexible – and is a heat and electric conductive material, which means it can potentially be used as a transparent conductor in flexible devices, electronics, and photovoltaics.

Having a bigger surface area to mass ratio, graphene is a promising material for applications that need reactivity and/or surface absorption, such as energy storage, bio & chemical sensing, etc. Other applications have substantially benefited from electrical and chemical properties of graphene.

HISTORY

In 2004, the material was rediscovered, isolated, and investigated at the University of Manchester by Andre Geim and Konstantin Novoselov. In 2010, Geim and Novoselov were awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics for their "groundbreaking experiments regarding the two-dimensional material graphene".