The Fun Part: Graphene Applications...

With the exciting research of the material Graphene being highlighted be almost every University with a technology department, it did not take long before the ears of industry pricked up, and sure enough the research and development departments of hundreds if not thousands of companies kicked into action with this fantastic new material.

The usual large corporations such as The Military, The Medical Groups, Microsoft and NASA to name just a couple are already constructing prototypes using graphene, I for one would love to see the advances in medicine that we will take place over the next decade due to graphene. 

Now here is the exciting part for us mere mortals. Graphene as we know is an excellent conductor of electricity, and with its transparency being a key feature this material will basically revolutionise screen technology.

Here are a few examples of the sort of products that are under development by companies such as Apple and Nokia.

The Nokia Morph Phone:

 Flexible Mobile Phones:

Nokia Smart Phones:

 Scroll Out Laptops:

 Microsoft Ultra fast Chips:

With all of the applications we see graphene being used in, its uniqueness is highlighted throughout. You can see how the technology that we use today will be shaped and changed in the future. All of the limits that we have had before to restrain certain designs will be lifted, size, weight, strength all of these controlling boarders have been pushed back by this special substance. 

One thing that we find very exciting is not the simple Apple style re-invention of existing products, but the invention of brand new products that have been sat on a designers monitor in a R&D lab and could not be brought to life yet due to the shortfall of our previous modern materials.

Imagine if you will, a designated wall of your lounge coated in a wall paper thick transparent sheet invisible to the human eye that is your ultra HD Television Screen, this will also be able to have an ‘In Display’ PC Monitor Screen that you could move around the screen and situate it where you want it to be, after use you will be able to roll up the screen into a thin tube the size of a fishing rod. This would seem like science fiction but in reality this giant screen idea is only a matter of years away from us.