Graphene Production

We've known about graphene for around 18 years, and it's been talked about since the 1920s but it has never been stable enough in order to be incorporated into products that we use on a day-to-day basis as this has proved to be quite difficult to achieve.

That has been the case up until 2017 when a very expensive watch has been released for the price of around 1.3m, and that was a result between the collaboration of The University of Manchester, Richard Mille Watches and McLaren Applied Technologies, this was one of the lightest watches ever made(40gr with the strap). Leading the research Professor Robert Young said: “In this work, through the addition of only a small amount of graphene into the matrix, the mechanical properties of a unidirectionally-reinforced carbon fibre composite have been significantly enhanced. This could have future impact on precision-engineering industries where strength, stiffness and product weight are key concerns such in as aerospace and automotive.” A small amount of graphene was added to a carbon fibre composite with the goal of improving stiffness and reducing weight by requiring the use of less overall material. Since graphene has high levels of stiffness and strength, it is used as a reinforcement.