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Graphene is a one-atom-thick sheet of carbon. The discovery of graphene has been rewarded with Nobel Prize, in 2010 to Andre Geim and Konstantin Novoselov. It is real and has already been produced from graphite, the scale of production still remains the main restriction.

Most of the research is still at the early stage and graphene products have not yet reached the masses in commercial use, however there is a big push for investment into graphene.

Graphene, even though being the thinnest material ever, is super strong. Graphene may at first sound like science fiction, with all it's declared super attributes in many areas. Those include:

Sunday, May 6, 2012

Making graphene is 'easy'

There are quite a few articles and videos on making graphene.

This video is like most of them and instructs you on how to make graphene from graphite stuck on a tape, then transferred onto a solid metal pad for microscope viewing. This will of course not lead to producing sheets of graphene, but you could eventually achieve getting a bit of it.

This article will tell you more about the details and what size you could possibly achieve with that method. There is also the Nobel prize winner Konstantin Novoselov talking about and demonstrating the method.

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