Nokia pushing Graphene as super-material of the future

Wednesday June 15, 2011
Nokia pushing
Graphene as super-
material of the
future
AMAZING: Nokia Morph in
Phone Mode. Graphene is
a thin, light, super-strong,
flexible material that may
be the key to developing
revolutionary devices. -
AFP/Relaxnews
Graphene is a super-
material that Nokia
believes will revolutionise
gadgets and "change the
world." Nokia explains,
"Graphene is an allotrope
of carbon and its 2D
structure measures just
one atom thick.
While being thin, it's the
strongest material ever
tested, having a breaking
strength 200 times
greater than steel and is
also the lightest material
ever, best intrinsic
conductor and super-
flexible, too. It's predicted
to replace silicon as the
base for all electronics."
This thin, light, super-
strong, flexible material
may be the key to
developing revolutionary
devices, such as Nokia's
"Morph," that up until
now have only been
envisioned as far-fetched
concepts.
Nokia Morph open
"We're not just talking
about mobile phones
here, we're talking about
the technology in its
vastness. Once the
technology exists, your
TV could - in theory - just
be unrolled and pasted to
your living room wall, like
a roll of wallpaper," adds
Nokia in a June 14 post on
its Conversations blog.
While the possibilities for
Graphene-based gadgets
are mind-boggling there is
still a lot of research to be
done.
Nokia is teaming up with
four Nobel laureates: Dr
Andrea Gelm, Dr
Konstantin Novoselov, Dr
K. von Klitzing and Dr A.
Fert to further the
technology as part of the
Graphene Flagship
programme.
The Chalmers University
of Technology, the
University of Manchester,
the University of
Lancaster, the University
of Cambridge, AMO Gmbh,
the Catalan institute of
Nanotechnology, the
Italian research council,
and the European Science
foundation will also be
involved in the
programme.
Nokia Morph in Wrist
Mode
The Graphene Flagship
programme was launched
on May 4 in Budapest
with the goal of bringing
"this most-promising
material to the real-
world." It is part of an
ambitious science-driven,
research initiative in the
EU called the Future and
Emerging Technology
(FET) Flagships project. A
video of Nokia's Morph
concept can be seen here:
youtu.be/IX-gTobCJHs.