Graphene
Graphene is a man made metal than it extremely thin, it is also 200 time stronger than steel. This material is made of carbon atoms put together in a honeycomb pattern. This does not exist in nature and can only be made in a lab. Grqphene is so thin that it would take 3 million sheets of it, one on top of the other and it would only be a millimeter thick. This futuristic material was made by Andre Geim and Konstantin Novoselov, for making this material both have received Nobel Prizes. In the future this material will be used in batteries and other electrical appliances due to the fact that it is a very good conducted of electricity. It is also suitable for touchscreen devises. To this day scientists are still experimenting with this material.
Even though grapheme is such a important material, not many people know about it, and even as I type this the spellcheck it telling me that no such thing exists.
Graphene is made from an allotrope of the element Carbon and I am very impressed that you blogged. My passion in chemistry is materials sciences and I was delighted to see that you are interested in it too. Keep up the good work.
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