Graphene is amazing. Or at least, it could be. Made from a layer of carbon one-atom thick, it's the strongest material in the world, it's completely flexible, and it's more conductive than copper. Discovered just under a decade ago, the supermaterial potentially has some unbelievable applications for us in the not so distant future.


All of these are just hypothetical at this point, but could be real before we know it. And they're all flippin incredible.




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Plug your phone in for five seconds and it would be all charged up


What if we actually had a clear solution for cleaning up the tainted water near Fukushima? Scientists at Rice




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Water, water everywhere and EVERY drop drinkable. MIT minds




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Touchscreens that use graphene as their conductor could be slapped onto plastic


Just a single sheet of graphene could produce headphones that have a frequency response comparable to a pair of Sennheisers, as some scientists at UC Berkeley




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Graphene could pave the way for bionic devices




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