Graphene: Status and Prospects

Understand

Graphene is a wonder material with many superlatives to its name.

• It is the thinnest material in the universe and the strongest ever measured.
• Its charge carriers exhibit giant intrinsic mobility, have the smallest effective mass (it is zero) and can travel micrometer-long distances without scattering at room temperature.
• Graphene can sustain current densities 6 orders higher than copper, shows record thermal conductivity and stiffness, is impermeable to gases and reconciles such conflicting qualities as brittleness and ductility.