And from the darkness cometh the light.

My step son is always going on about the substance at the heart of this Graphene.

He tells me it's the most important invention ever.
 
Phil V said:
My step son is always going on about the substance at the heart of this Graphene.

He tells me it's the most important invention ever.
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I think it will be interesting to see what it can be used for. They are currently funding a research centre that's costing about 60mil at Manc Uni so there is a lot of research money behind it.

I think we will be waiting quite some time before graphene sensors could realistically hit mass market though
 
The problem will be producing graphene in large enough quantities... not building a sensor out of it.
 
Pookeyhead said:
The problem will be producing graphene in large enough quantities... not building a sensor out of it.
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This.

Whilst its a great revolutionary material that will change everything, it does have a few drawbacks, considering that it has very little resistance, all of the current transistor designs are useless, we are basically starting from scratch with it and it will be a good 15 to 20 years until proper graphene products are on the market, not just prototype lab cells. The other problem is that it being 1 atom thick is that you need to use some time consuming analytical techniques to check if you've got any of it, once a method of production that guarantees a monatomic layer is affordable and relatively rapid, then we will see graphene products start to filter into usage. As it stands all of the graphene research groups here are still using the Sellotape method, used by Profs Geim and Novosolev that won the Nobel prize, I highly doubt Canon and Nikon will have factories full of people peeling Sellotape off pencil leads and checking it in a microscope. :p
 
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