In our third edition of the Graphene Council Newsletter, we feature a Q&A interview with Jari Kinaret, who was appointed last year as the director of The Graphene Flagship, the European Union’s €1-billion investment to make Europe a hub for the commercialization of graphene.

As always, we also bring to you the latest research over the last quarter in graphene and other two-dimensional materials and how they are being applied to areas such as electronics, energy storage and medical applications.

Despite some lofty expectations, graphene continues to make incremental steps in energy storage applications

As we discovered in our most recent Q&A with Jari Kinaret, the director of the European Graphene Flagship, advanced batteries and supercapacitors are an early application target for graphene. In our previous newsletter, we highlighted how graphene is proving to be effective in supercapacitors as well as providing a new way to increase the capacity of the ubiquitouslithium-ion (Li-ion) battery.

Medical Applications Play to Graphene’s Strengths

Increasingly, researchers are looking at ways to exploit some of graphene's characteristics for useful medical applications.

In the first decade since graphene was first produced in the lab, much of the research around it has been focused on its potential for electronic applications. Graphene's conductive nature combined with its elastic qualities make it a candidate for wearable medical sensors.