https://www.skepticalscience.com/Graphe ... l#commentsIt is a very stable, chemically inert material which has x200 the strength of steel yet is malleable - its surface area can be stretched by 20%. It can be folded and crumpled, vastly increasing its surface area within the confines of a very small space. When coated with Lithium it becomes a superconductor, having no resistance to an electric current at room temperature. Graphene is an excellent thermal conductor and in its pure form is 97.7% transparent.
Inability to produce graphene on an industrial scale initially limited development of technology into an ever-growing range of applications. These problems have now been overcome, even to the extent that a graphene ink has been developed enabling the printing of graphene sheets and other items containing graphene. Sir Andre rightly describes Graphene as the foundation of far reaching disruptive technology.
It has the potential to replace and bring about the rapid demise of fossil fuels as an energy source, possibly within a decade and this alone justifies its description as a ‘wonder material’.
I'm guessing that, right now at least, the source of the carbon for this material is mostly from ffs. But I haven't researched that yet.
Applications to solar panels and batteries seem particularly interesting.
I actually meant to include a question mark, or two in the title. I worry about what happens when this stuff gets into the environment.
Mostly, rather than relying on geewiz tech, we have to essentially crash the economy, ideally with a Socialist like Sanders in charge who can plan the economy in such away to limit the pain to the poor and middle class in this transition--universal healthcare, universal employment, free education, free or cheap rent/mortgages...but very high taxes on carbon, all or almost all returned to the consumer.