Originally Posted by
danvuquoc
Graphene has been available for a while now in raw thick sheets -- they use it in automotive racing for splitters because it can take a beating and is fairly cheap. It's not as strong as carbon fiber currently in commercially available sheet form, but it's also much cheaper than carbon fiber.
I imagine this is the same tech applied at a nano level.
Thick sheets of graphine are also known as...graphite.
And there is a huge difference between a continual sheet of graphine, which is very strong, and graphite, composed of many, many small 'sheets'.
It was just last year that the first graphine sheet larger than 1000 square
micrometers was produced.
Here is an article on attempts to use larger sheets for touch screens:
http://www.newscientist.com/article/...ene-sheet.html