https://www.youtube.com/embed/WFacA6OwCjA
 
for the science geeks
way cool

That is probably the most impressive new innovation I have ever seen!  Scary too when you really start considering all the applications!  Like incorporating them into visors for heads-up displays you can see through, covering the side of your car/van/truck to have a moving advertisement of your company, etc.
 
Personally, I want a very large, wrap-around type monitor screen for both games and watching TV. 
 
 

scary, but also very forward thinking.

Please note that the conceptual animations in the piece are speculative cartoons, not pictures of actual, or even probable applications. Kind of reminds me of the lanes filled with commuters in hover-cars I used to see in films depicting life in the future world of 1960 when I was a child. Sure graphene is a cool material with a lot of potential, but most of those animations depict things people were describing long before graphene was synthesized in 2003, and the world has not been revolutionized in the past decade.

first of all, graphene is not synthesized.
it is pure carbon, the 4th most common element in the universe.
 
2nd, it is actively being used to design new materials and applications, in fact, two guys got a nobel prize for working with it back in 2010.
 
i know folks who are actively working with carbon nano tubes, this aint your old science fiction.

batsbrew
first of all, graphene is not synthesized.
it is pure carbon, the 6th most common element in the universe.

 
No doubt it is a form of carbon, and the Nobel prize was awarded to a couple of guys who initially "mined" or "extracted" or "synthesized" the stuff by pulling it loose from bulk graphite with scotch tape, where it did not possess the unique characteristics of monolayer graphene because it was associated with amorphous graphite. But just as a diamond is another crystalline allotrope of carbon which can be mined, graphene can also be synthesized, which if it is to have much practical value, is going to have to be done with techniques more complex than the scotch tape pull.
 
http://www.sciencedirect..../pii/S1369702112700445
 
 

Graphene production

There are dozens of small companies that are already producing graphene (and graphene-based materials). While production volume is small and prices are still high, we already begin to see some commercial applications that use these materials. Hopefully in coming years production volume will increase and prices will drop which will enable more and more products to use graphene based materials.

Commercial products that use graphene

As we said, while graphene is a relatively new material, applications are starting to appear. The first product to use graphene, as far as we know, is the Siren Technology security smart packaging, which uses Vorbeck Materials's graphene based Ink.
 
Some companies have announced some graphene based products, we're not sure if these are real yet. Shanghai's Powerbooster Technology claim to have developed a graphene-based flexible touch-panels for mobile devices. They say they are already producing millions of such panels a month, shipping them to mid-sized Chinese smartphone makers. This isn't confirmed yet though.
 
In the beginning of 2013, HEAD announced their new range of graphene tennis rackets (YouTek Graphene Speed series). These rackets supposedly use graphene to make the shaft stronger and lighter, and HEAD says that the graphene helps distribute the weight better and creates a stronger and better controlled racket. HEAD offers five different rackets, ranging from $170 to $286. It's still not clear what's the material HEAD are using exactly in this product, but it's likely that they are using AGM's graphene flakes.
In October 2013, a new company called Thermene launched the Graphene-Oxide based Thermene Graphene Thermal Paste which is aimed towards CPU cooling. For $15 you can buy 3 ml of Thermene which should be enough for about a dozen CPUs. We were told that the graphene supplier is Graphene Supermarket. Specifically they are using graphene oxide flakes (or platelets) which is at least 80% one layer graphene.
In October 2014, Vittoria released a new range of bicycle race wheels that are built from graphene-enhanced composite materials. The new wheels (called Qurano) are the best wheels offered by Vittoria, and they say these are the fastest wheels in the world - all thanks to graphene. Vittoria uses graphene materials produced by Italy's Directa Plus, added to their carbon-fiber matrix built wheel rim.
 
We expect the first graphene-based mass-market products to be touch displays and Li-Ion batteries.
 
 
 
http://www.graphene-info.com/graphene-products

Graphene-oxide... Really? That's not good old CO2 then?

Give it a couple of months and Spacey will build a graphene strat.
 
 

Karyn
Graphene-oxide... Really? That's not good old CO2 then?

that molecule don't worky!