The carbon-based fabric-graphene-is the thinnest possible
fabric. The resulting atomic sheet is stable, highly flexible, strong
and remarkably conductive.
The new nano-fabric is the first two-dimensional fullerene, a class of
carbon-based compounds discovered 20 years ago that resemble round cages.
"As carbon nanotubes are basically made from rolled-up narrow strips of graphene, any of the thousands of applications currently considered for nanotubes, renowned for their unique properties, can also apply to graphene itself," Geim explained.
