Our earth's surface is filled with 72% of water and 97% of that water we have is seawater. It won't take long for us to run out of drinking water. There are so many places in the world where people suffer and die without drinking water. Apart from water, we are also running out of natural resources like oil, natural gas, etc. There is an absolute solution to all these problems that we face today and that is none other than the allotrope of carbon named 'graphene'.
In the beginning, scientists believed that it was impossible to separate a single layer of graphite which is known as graphene but the two physicists Andre Geim and Konstantin Novoselov extracted graphene from graphite using a pencil and a tape which led them to receive a Nobel Prize.
The reason that they got the Nobel Prize for this discovery is because of the importance of graphene. It is the strongest material ever discovered and it is 100 times more stronger than steel also it is more flexible and light so it can be used to build aircraft, satellites automobiles etc. It is also 1000 times a better conductor than copper in conducting electricity. It is also possible to filter seawater into drinking water with a sieve made from graphene material. Also, there is a limit to how much solar energy we can save through solar panels but if these were replaced with graphene materials we could store more solar power. Thus this single allotrope of carbon can be a solution to numerous problems that we are facing today and hence the researchers are more interested in finding ways to extract graphene in the most efficient and commercial ways and how can they be used. With the help of this graphene we can survive the crisis that we are facing.
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