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Exploiting carbon flatland

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Seven years after isolation of the first graphene sheets, an analysis of the densely populated patent landscape around the two-dimensional material reveals striking differences between universities' patenting activities and illustrates the challenges of a fast-moving technology space.

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Figure 1: Development of graphene science and technology.
Figure 2: Graphene patent networks for a, Samsung, b, Sandisk and c, Rice University.

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