India's first 'Graphene Innovation Center' to be set up in Kerala

India's first 'Graphene Innovation Center' to be set up in Kerala

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Category : State Published on: January 31 2022

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  • India's first innovation center for graphene will be set up in Kerala by Digital University Kerala at Trishul for Rs.86.41 crores.
  • This will be the country's first graphene R&D incubation center.
  • Tata Steel Ltd will be the industrial partner of the centre
  • Graphene is the thinnest and strongest material in the world ever known and has good chemical stability, high electrical conductivity, and a large surface area while being transparent and lightweight.
  • Graphene, as per the latest research, could replace indium and thereby bring down the cost of OLED (organic light-emitting diode) screens in smartphones. 
  • Graphene is an allotrope of carbon consisting of a single layer of atoms arranged in a two-dimensional honeycomb lattice nanostructure.
  • Two American physicists Andre Geim and Kostya Novoselov had first isolated graphene, considered the world's first two-dimensional material. They won the Nobel for this in 2010.
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