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Rocket launch 1st April: sending graphene into space for the first time

[04-04-2022]

Friday 1st April was a bid day for the study of 2D matereials (and no joke) a SpaceX rocket launch took place that included a research satellite which contained the first graphene conductors ever to enter space, made in Delft. In two months' time, we will now how graphene behaves in space. What made it possible: the discovery by TU Delft researchers how to protect the graphene from environmental influences. Read more