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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