Small start-up companies are making large volumes of graphene, the world's thinnest material, for applications such as composites and electrodes.
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Segal, M. Selling graphene by the ton. Nature Nanotech 4, 612–614 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1038/nnano.2009.279
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