The Real Vibranium.
The fictional element that made Wakanda a technological powerhouse, has just met its real-life counterpart.
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In the fictional series, Black Panther, Vibranium is an extraordinary material that transforms the Wakandan community into a highly technologically advanced society. In 2004, Professor Sir Andre Geim and Professor Sir Kostya Novoselov of the University of Manchester first isolated graphene, a supermaterial that is known today to have remarkable atomic properties and has the potential to advance virtually every industry out there. At Hydrocarbon, we believe that this material will revolutionise the way we live our lives forever, and will allow us to create highly innovative products that will build a brighter future for all humanity.
Meet graphene - the wonder material.
Graphene is the world's strongest material, and has been discovered to have myriads of extraordinary properties. It is harder than diamond, yet more elastic than rubber; tougher than steel, yet lighter than aluminium. In the same way that Vibranium transformed Wakanda in the Black Panther series into a highly technologically-advanced society, graphene will allow us to do the same.
Harnessing graphene's properties.
Graphene's electron mobility is 100 times greater than that of silicon, making it potentially revolutionary for computers. It conducts heat far better than diamond, and has an electrical conductivity of 13 times more than copper's. Even more, its high surface area of 2630 square meters per gram means that you could cover an entire soccer field with less than 3 grams.
Potential applications of graphene.
From RFID systems, water desalination units and smart clothing, to laptops that are a thousand times faster and that store a million times more data, it appears as though there is nothing graphene cannot do. We aim to build transparent devices, highly efficient solar panels, sensors, batteries, bulletproof items and a number of other remarkable products.
The world's most efficient solar panels
Currently, most solar panels available on the market are unable to generate electricity when the sun is down, are susceptible to breakages, and have maximum efficiency rates of just 23 per cent.
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Hydrocarbon aims to solve all these issues by constructing highly innovative solar panels out of the world's strongest material, graphene. Graphene is able to create electricity even when the sun is not shining, and will never break. In fact, it is estimated that it would take an elephant, standing on a pencil, to break through a sheet of graphene the thickness of cling wrap!
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Graphene's extraordinary conductive and atomic properties allow for a highly efficient molecular absorbance rate. This provides any solar panel constructed out of graphene solar cells with an efficiency rate of a whopping 60 per cent - 37 per cent higher than any other solar panel out there.
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And, because graphene is cheap to produce, our revolutionary solar panels sell at surprisingly low prices.
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So, what are you waiting for? Join the solar energy movement, and become one of the world's first homes to experience the sheer power of graphene solar panels.