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Graphene: the hype versus commercial reality

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Graphene is being used commercially in large quantities in ways that are grounded in market realities, far from the much hyped ‘killer applications’.

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Fig. 1: The milestones of graphene commercialization.

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Fig. 2: Graphene applications by type of material.

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Barkan, T. Graphene: the hype versus commercial reality. Nat. Nanotechnol. 14, 904–906 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41565-019-0556-1

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