What is Graphene?

You may have heard of it, you may have not but graphene is pretty damn cool. Years ago when it was found graphene was supposed to take the world by storm. EVERYTHING was supposed to be made of it in the future. Well, it's the future now, wheres graphene?

Before I answer that question, what is graphene? Funny enough if you're in school just like me, you probably experience graphen everyday. Ever heard of graphite? The thing that is your pencil. Well graphite is made of a molecule named Carbon - C on the periodic table. This carbon in the pencil is bounded tightly together until an unsuspecting human decided he want's to write on paper. This action of writing causes layers of the carbon or in common terms layers of graphite to rub off and stick to the paper. Graphene itself is actual one layer of those carbon atoms! So what i am telling you is every time you write with your pencil you are almost making graphene... but not quite. Just a general idea of it.

(Basically, graphene is a single layer of carbon atoms.)

So where is graphene? As Graphene is reportedly 200 times stronger than STEEL - no not STIHL the yard maintenance manufacturer. As well, graphene can conduct electricity and it's flexible, it's still not here. In my opinion from doing a couple minutes of research it's because the backing is just not there anymore and in turn is too expensive to produce. Maybe you don't remember but I remember a couple years ago graphene was the shit, the talk of the century. Now I feel that it has lost it's edge.

But.

With products like graphene hockey sticks, this shows that people are still talking about graphene as a viable resource. I hope it makes a swell comeback into our lives. But maybe i'm entirely wrong and missed the mark, well... it's mysillyblog after all. Go research graphene yourself. I am like the stepping stone for you to achieve greatness.

Cheers.