This article first appeared in the 2019 Physics World Focus on Nanotechnology & Nanomaterials under the headline "Graphene by the tonne"
Ultrapure graphene is grown in labs under carefully controlled conditions, but Mark Thompson believes that exploiting the material’s properties on a large scale requires a different approach. Here, he explains how his company, Talga Resources, went from prospecting for gold to developing processes for manufacturing graphene in bulk