Telegraph:
A tough and flexible material and the world's best conductor of
electricity, graphene was first isolated by Andre Geim and
Konstantin Novoselov nine years ago. In 2010 the two scientists
were awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics for their
ground-breaking experiments. Despite attempts to exploit
graphene's unique properties in applications ranging from
batteries to implantable electronics to printing inks to
automobiles, mass producing high-quality graphene at an
affordable price has proven difficult. The next innovation may
involve stacking graphene with other two-dimensional materials
that have been discovered since graphene, such as boron nitrite
or niobium selenide. Such potentially revolutionary composite
structures could be just a few atomic layers thick, with each
layer able to be manipulated with atomic precision to perform
unique functions.
