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News 20.02.2020

“Graphene: the flat all-rounder” on the radio

On February 20, 2020, the radio station Deutschlandfunk Kultur has released a feature piece on “Graphene: the flat all-rounder”. Produced by the journalists Jennifer Rieger und Frank Kaspar, the piece offers an accessible overview of the unique properties of graphene, and a well-balanced analysis of the gap between the stellar expectations grown around this material and its current applications.

Trying to answer the question “was graphene just a hype, or will it really be a key material for future applications?”, the two journalists interview several experts, including Christoph Stampfer and Max Lemme from the Aachen Graphene & 2D materials Center, Ursula Wurstbauer and Rudolf Bratschitsch from the University of Münster, Bernhard Schartel from the Federal Institute for Materials Research and Testing in Berlin, and Christian Kehrt, historian of science and technology at TU Braunschweig.

The resulting 30-min production (in German) can be listened on-line at the address deutschlandfunkkultur.de/zukunftswerkstoff-graphen-der-flache-alleskoenner

A transcript of the piece is also available.

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