Is graphene starting to live up to its hype?

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Published 2024-06-27
When graphene was first isolated in 2004 the so called “super material” was meant to change the world. The material has remarkable properties - it is 200 times stronger than steel, transparent, extremely light, flexible and also exhibits excellent electrical conductivity. Twenty years on it is starting to live up to the original hype and is being incorporated into a wide range of materials and products.

RAZOR’s Reya El-Salahi traveled to Cambridge to meet Prof. Sir Colin Humphreys, Co-founder and CSO of Paragraf, one of the first companies in the world to mass produce graphene-based electronic devices. Founded with Dr. Simon Thomas and Ivor Guiney in 2018, after a breakthrough they made at the University of Cambridge, the company now produces enough graphene to make 150,000 electronic sensors a day.

Graphene was first isolated by the University of Manchester's Prof. Sir. Andre Geim and Prof. Sir. Konstantin Novoselov. Manchester has become the UK’s home of Graphene and 2D materials research. Opening the National Graphene Institute in 2015 and the Graphene Engineering Innovation Centre - known as the ‘GEIC’ in 2018. Apart from electronics, graphene is mostly incorporated into another material to lighten and strengthen it. It’s been used in building materials such as concrete, consumer products such as plastic bottles and in trainers, and also in the automotive and aerospace industries.
All Comments (21)
  • @rustynails68
    Finally! Technology is always over estimated in the short term and underestimated in the long term.
  • @yourma2000
    We're still too busy putting it on tape and looking at it under a microscope for the cameras.
  • @cinemaipswich4636
    Vapour Deposition is used to make Silicon Chips, that we all know and love. In a vacuum, one can make a cloud of the element that you need, but it is several atoms thick. For metals this is easy, because they melt at a particular heat level. Carbon is very different, and I don't know how they make a cloud of Carbon, that deposits only one atom thick.
  • @s1lv3rbordeaux47
    The amazing discovery was made with two objects, a piece of cellotape & a block of graphite. Nobel prize worthy apparently.
  • @Gersberms
    Apparently I was way behind on graphene news. This is exciting!
  • @SantinoDeluxe
    failed to mention the number 1 use for this circuit, the hall effect is used in all the best joysticks, were talkin billions of chips for everything from video game controllers to remote vehicles and enhanced precision medical machinery... most likely manufacturing tolerances benefit from high quality hall sensors as well
  • @synergy021
    Such a top quality show. I'm surprised there's only 14.2k subscribers to the channel right now. Guess I'm one of the early ones to discover it. Keep it up, I'm betting you're about to explode soon.
  • @SirusStarTV
    As we get smaller in semiconductors processing node we couldn't achieve more energy efficiency forever, new materials are needed to make chips faster.
  • @BishwaOakes
    Interesting, thanks. However, I had to turn off because of that annoyingly loud background music
  • @dawnlightening
    A spellbindingly interesting video! The sense of discovery and excitement of these researchers advancing the cutting edge of graphene and related material research comes through vividly. The presenter asked pertinent and thoughtful questions & organised the material very well into a coherent body. Thank you for uploading, and please make more of these videos.
  • @user-wq9lb6vp2h
    Good show with (for me at least) the right level of technical information to enable me to understand the fundamentals and their links to the applications.
  • @chenbenzvi2164
    "to see how graphene is used in the world i came to this lab here" 😂 see you in 5 years