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Graphene is on track to deliver on its promises

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Fifteen years since the ground-breaking experiments on graphene, its commercial exploitation is progressing at the expected pace for a new material.

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Fig. 1: Historic and predicted revenue of the global graphene market.
Fig. 2: Graphene markets by application by 2025.

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  3. Cambridge Graphene Centre, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK

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Reiss, T., Hjelt, K. & Ferrari, A.C. Graphene is on track to deliver on its promises. Nat. Nanotechnol. 14, 907–910 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41565-019-0557-0

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