Graphene potential
Graphene was hailed as a wonder material when it was first isolated in 2004, but the product that was expected to change the world has done very little — that could be about to change, and some companies are well placed to benefit as you can discover here.
Stonehenge might be famous, and it might be around 4,500 years old, but no one is quite sure how or why it was built. Today, in a town nearby, a gym is being built which is not even that well known locally, let alone worldwide, but its construction might be just as interesting as its celebrated neighbour. The gym is under construction in Amesbury, Wiltshire, and is being partly constructed by a material called concretene — a form of concrete reinforced with graphene. It turns out that a tiny amount of graphene within the concrete can make it viable to…