Graphene The material of the Future?
We are facing one of the most important discoveries of recent years, of those that seldom happen in science and that is destined to be the "next great breakthrough", revolutionizing technology in the coming years. It is a material synthesized from graphite and is composed of carbon atoms arranged hexagonally and grouped dense in sheets of very fine dimensions (one atom thick). It is one of the strongest, thinnest and most flexible compounds that currently exist. Although graphene is known since 1930, its studies were abandoned because it was believed that such a material could not exist, since they considered that if a single layer of graphite was isolated, it would be so full of defects that it would be unstable at room temperature . It was not until 2004 when two Russian scientists Andre Geim and Konstantin Novoselov made revolutionary discoveries about this material, isolating it from the temperature that made it unstable. That is why the Royal Academy of S...