What is graphene and why is it becoming a buzzword recently (mostly in the world of investments but not only)?
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*Graphene* is a particular form of *carbon,* the same substance that’s in your pencil, your mom’s diamond ring, and that’s central to the chemical reactions keeping you alive.
Specifically, graphene is a flat, single-atom sheet of carbon atoms, linked together to make hexagons. This arrangement lends graphene very interesting properties as regards electrical and thermal conduction, or the ability of graphene to move thermal energy and electrical charge from one point to another.
These and other properties make graphene very interesting for applications such as solar cells, touchscreens, materials engineering, and so on and so forth.
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