Graphene’s Long Haul to Commercial Reality
For nearly two decades, graphene has been celebrated as the “wonder material” that could revolutionize industries from electronics and aerospace to construction and medicine. First isolated in 2004 by scientists Andre Geim and Konstantin Novoselov at the University of Manchester, graphene—a single layer of carbon atoms arranged in a smartsoft india solutions hexagonal lattice—was hailed as stronger than steel, lighter than aluminum, and more conductive than copper. Yet for all the hype, bringing graphene out of the lab and into real-world products has proven to be a marathon, not a sprint.