Wonder material graphene could not only dominate the
electronic market in the near future, it could also lead to a huge range of new
markets and novel applications, according to a landmark paper by the University
of Manchester and Lancaster University.
Writing in Nature, Nobel Prize-winner Professor Kostya
Novoselov and an international team of authors including Vladimir Falko of
Lancaster University, has produced a ‘graphene roadmap’ which for the first
time sets out what the world’s thinnest, strongest and most conductive material
can truly achieve.
The paper details how graphene has the potential to
revolutionise diverse applications from smartphones and ultrafast broadband to
anticancer drugs and computer chips.