The Brilliant World of Graphene

Graphene has become a valuable and useful nano-material due to its exceptionally high tensile strength electrical conductivity transparency and being the thinnest two-dimensional material in the world. The global market for graphene was $9 million in 2012 with most of the demand from research and development in semiconductor electronics electric batteries and composites.Graphene conducts heat and electricity very efficiently along its plane. The material strongly absorbs light of all visible wave-lengths which accounts for the black color of graphite; yet a single graphene sheet is nearly transparent because of its extreme thinness. The material is about 100 times as strong as would be the strongest steel of the same thickness.