The crux of the matter
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- from Shaastra :: vol 04 issue 06 :: Jul 2025
The high cost of graphene was holding back its widespread application. New iterations of old technologies are helping to overcome that hurdle.
Alittle over a decade ago, the graphene revolution seemed just around the corner, and Mohammed Naushad Ali wanted to be a part of it. Galvanised by the extraordinary properties of the super-strong and super-light material, Ali, who worked in a nanotechnology company, decided to make graphene his business. There was a buzz around the highly conductive and flexible form of carbon. The 2010 Nobel Prize in Physics had been conferred on two scientists for isolating the material, and the world was all atwitter about sci-fi applications made of graphene, such as space elevators, invisibility cloaks, and telepathy devices. Ali concluded he wanted to be a player by providing graphene at scale to industries.
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