Graphene
Peter Day visits the newly opened the National Graphene Institute in Manchester to discover how this wonder material - discovered ten years ago - can be used in the future.
It would take an elephant balanced on the tip of a pencil to break through a sheet of graphene the thickness cling film. That's the description those promoting this new wonder material like to use to illustrate the strength of graphene.
The atomic material was isolated by two scientists at Manchester University in 2004. Now, just over a decade and one Nobel prize later, Peter Day visits the newly opened the National Graphene Institute. Its aim is to bring business and science together, to develop potential future uses for graphene. Will this strategy succeed where Britain’s past attempts to spin out scientific discoveries have not?
Producer: Sandra Kanthal
(Image: Graphene. Credit: University of Manchester)
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Contributors:
Dr Nigel Salter, Managing Director, 2-DTech
Dr Paul Wiper, Research Associate, National Graphene Institute
http://www.graphene.manchester.ac.uk/
James Baker, Business Director, National Graphene Institute
http://www.graphene.manchester.ac.uk/
Eddie Smith, Strategic Director for Manchester City Council
Dr Ania Servent, Knowledge Exchange Fellow, National Graphene Institute
http://www.graphene.manchester.ac.uk/
David Edgerton, Professor of the History of Science and Technology, Kings College London
http://www.kcl.ac.uk/artshums/depts/history/people/staff/Academic/edgertond/edgertond.aspx
Jonathan Haskell, Professor of Economics, Imperial College Business School
http://www.imperial.ac.uk/people/j.haskel
Morten Froseth, CEO, CrayoNano
Dr Achim Hoffmann IP Group
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