It Took Years, but Finally The Next Big Thing Can Change Humankind
17 years later, a radical breakthrough is on the road to revolutionize everything
In the early 2000s, two physicists at The University of Manchester came across a sensational discovery. In one of their Friday Night Experiments, they isolated an entirely new substance, almost as a joke.
It was a material with unique properties –the thinnest and simultaneously the strongest known to science.
It was almost entirely transparent and at the same time so dense as to even prevent the passage of helium, the smallest gaseous atom.
It was probably the most extraordinary substance ever discovered –a thin, atom-thick sheet of carbon possessing remarkable properties–graphene.
To Andre Geim and Konstantin Novoselov, that discovery, made while playing with adhesive tape, earned them the Nobel Prize. Yet, since 2004, the expectations of seeing its application in the real world have remained nothing but expectations.
For nearly twenty years, graphene has not moved from the status of “it will revolutionize the world –in the future.” The laboratory methods to obtain graphene were inapplicable for scale production. And the cost of producing it flawlessly in significant…
