Why Do Engineers Care So Much About Graphene?

#Graphene, graphene, graphene. Everywhere we turn there is some new engineering and scientific breakthrough involving graphene.

What’s so great about graphene, anyway?

Back in 2004, two researchers from the University of Manchester named Andre Geim and Kostya Novoselov isolated the material and even won a Nobel Prize in Physics for that discovery a few years later.

Graphene isn’t “new.” Anyone who has ever written with a pencil has made it, but the problem, which researchers have been trying to solve since the 1800s, was extracting it from graphite.

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