Graphene Aerogels and Foams: 3D Structures from a 2D Material
Graphene is a two-dimensional material, which is both its defining feature and a practical inconvenience. Individual sheets are difficult to handle, and in bulk they tend to …
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Where graphene is already working and where it's headed
Graphene Membranes for Water Filtration: The Science Behind Nanoscale Separation
Water scarcity is one of the defining resource challenges of the 21st century. Over two billion people live in water-stressed areas, and demand for clean water is growing as …
Graphene in Aerospace: Lightweighting, EMI Shielding, and the Long Road to Certification
Aerospace is simultaneously one of the most technically demanding and most slowly moving markets for new materials. The performance requirements are extreme — aircraft components …
Graphene in Construction: Beyond Concrete — Coatings, Insulation, and Smart Buildings
Graphene-enhanced concrete has been the headline story for graphene in construction — and for good reason, since concrete production generates approximately 8% of global CO₂ …
Graphene in Automotive: Lightweighting, EVs, and the Road to Adoption
The automotive industry is undergoing one of its most significant material transitions in decades. Electrification changes the weight distribution, thermal management requirements, …
Graphene in Healthcare: From Drug Delivery to Surgical Tools
Healthcare is one of the most anticipated application areas for graphene, and for understandable reasons. Graphene’s combination of high surface area, tunable surface …
Graphene in Lubricants: A Commercially Ready Application Hiding in Plain Sight
Lubrication doesn’t attract headlines the way batteries or displays do. But it represents one of graphene’s most commercially mature and genuinely impactful application …
Graphene in Flexible Electronics: Enabling the Next Generation of Wearables and Displays
Most electronic devices are rigid. The components that make them work — the semiconducting silicon, the conductive metal traces, the glass substrates — don’t bend, and …
Graphene in Sports Equipment: Marketing Claim or Real Performance Gain?
Graphene has become a fixture in premium sports equipment marketing. Head’s graphene tennis rackets, Vittoria’s graphene bicycle tires, Catlike’s graphene cycling …
Graphene Anti-Corrosion Coatings: A Practical Guide for Engineers and Specifiers
Corrosion costs the global economy an estimated $2.5 trillion annually — roughly 3% of global GDP. The dominant protection strategy for steel infrastructure, pipelines, ships, and …
Graphene in Batteries: What It Can and Can't Do for Energy Storage
Few graphene applications have attracted more hype — or more skepticism — than batteries. Since the early 2010s, graphene has been described in press releases and crowdfunding …
Graphene Coatings: Anticorrosion, Barrier, and Functional Applications
Coatings represent one of graphene’s most natural commercial applications. The reasoning is intuitive: graphene is an atomically thin, impermeable barrier that is chemically …