A two dimensional arrangement of Carbon atoms in a chicken wire hexagonal arrangement make up a new revolutionary material which scientists call Graphene. This new material is futuristic and is said to revolutionize the 21st century. Graphene is the thinnest and the densest material known today so dense that even a Helium atom cannot pass through it. It is strong and tensile known to be an amazing conductor of electricity and heat.

Discovered originally in 2003 by Andre Geim and Kostya Novoselov who were subsequently awarded the 2010 Nobel prize in Physics, Graphene  a futuristic material is now the object of many a debate.Its potential is being researched in the field of  developing smartphones, ultrafast broadband, drug delivery and computer chips.

The University of Manchester is on the hunt for ideas regarding the full use of Graphene. It is for this purpose that at a recent staff event the university launched a 50,000 pound enterprise competition for students to come up with new Graphene ideas. 

Below is a list of possible future applications of Graphene.

• It could act as a rust protector on metals if used as a thin coat of paint. Even as an electronic ink its advanced usability could be defined
• Graphene could work as a Photo voltaic cell to improve the efficiency and working life of batteries.
• Since it is highly sensitive to the environment, Graphene could act as a sensor to measure strain, magnetism, gas or pressure.
• In the field of medicine it can help in building new tissues for regenerative medicine by delivering drugs to the point of contact.
• Graphene in the future might be used to prepare e papers which will have flexible screens and will be capable of being a rollup epaper by 2015.

These applications of Graphene go on to prove Moore's law that the exponential growth of technology is definitive and what we will see in the near future are inventions and discoveries of a singular exponential nature whereby machines become smarter and smarter permitting humans to be diagnostic and open minded in our approach to life.