Discover Graphene and how this wonder material will change the world of Electronics | MWC17

If you are a follower of today’s technologies you must have heard about graphene, the material that gained popularity by the way it is produced...using Scotch Tape. The method was so revolutionary in 2004 that the inventors of the method, Andrei Geim and Kostya Novoselov from the University of Manchester, received a Nobel prize.

What they did is basically very simple to explain: with the Scotch tape they repeatedly ripped small layers of graphite (indeed, the black stuff in the pen you write and draw with) until there was only one a small patch 2D layer of atoms left - graphene. Before that time the material was known and many people understood the promise of this wonder material, but no one was able to to get that single layer of atoms. They received the Nobel prize for their approach and creating a breakthrough in new research. Many universities started developing methods on how to get graphene and started looking for the new applications.

In Europe many of these institutes and universities work together under the Graphene Flagship initiative. Launched and initiate by the European Union this initiative's aim is to exchange bring together knowledge and research.

At the Mobile World Congress 2017 they showcased new applications like a wearable sensors for controlling a prosthetic hand and pressure measurement, for heating and temperature sensing, WiFi/IoT applications, optical data transfer, the production of graphene and the how to get higher resolution displays.

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