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by api 549 days ago
It takes a long time to go from lab bench and physics papers to practical use to mass produced and generally available practical use.

Graphene has incredible properties as a structural material too but so far producing it at that scale and making it behave properly in things like composites has been very hard. But the physics says once we get it to work we have composites many times stronger than steel or materials like Kevlar.