You may have have heard of graphene, first isolated in Manchester in 2004 and the subject of the Nobel prize in 2010 for the work You may also know that it is the strongest, lightweight, most electrically and thermally conductive material known You may even know that graphene comes in several forms and is one member of a wider family of 2D materials This ten minute taster session will share with you some of the successful applications for this advanced material, for example: Graphene is already embedded in millions of everyday devices Graphene is in Earth orbit NASA requested a briefing about graphene applications in space - we can tell you about some of this content ... and something that may surprise you about graphene Join us for a longer session in the afternoon where you can meet the people working at the heart of graphene development and commercialisation and take a deeper dive into this fast developing field.