At the stand of a Chinese company that participates in the Congress, which was inaugurated today at the International Convention Center in Barcelona, ​​clothing with built-in heating made with graphene or more efficient lightweight anti-pollution filters made with this product is shown.

More than 950 experts in this new quantum material from around the world participate in this event, the most important ever held in Europe on this substance composed of pure carbon, with atoms arranged in hexagonal pattern, and which is 100 times stronger than the steel and 5 times lighter than aluminum.

The event, organized by Phantoms Foundation, the Catalan Institute of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology (ICN2) and the Institute of Photonic Sciences (ICFO), has more than 250 speakers who will explain until Friday the latest achievements based on graphene, among them the Nobel Laureates Andre Geim and Albert Fert.

The professor of the ICN2 Stephan Roche, one of the organizers, today explained to Efe the possibilities that graphene 3.0 has opened “are endless because it can improve all kinds of objects that are on the market”, from mobile phones to measuring devices, health technologies or any everyday object.

Graphene, with its quantum properties, allows from studying the inside of the brain to making helmets, such as those that will be released in two months’ time, manufactured by an Italian technology institute, which protect much better from falls and avoid trauma.

Graphene, which can be manufactured from graphite – the lowest quality – or gas, has allowed the ICN2, according to Roche, to be developing an interface between man and electronics to make a sensor of the brain little invasive that will allow, for example, to prevent epileptic seizures.

The quantum, flexible, resistant, conductive, lightweight and low cost properties make this two-dimensional material suitable for multiple uses, although high-quality graphene is needed for more scientific uses, such as integrating this substance into smartphones, in what some Korean companies present in Barcelona already work.

The researcher of the Institute of Photonic Sciences (ICFO) of Barcelona, ​​Denis Guilhot, told Efe that in their laboratories they are working on several projects to use this material to manufacture transparent electrodes for touch screens.

“Because it is a flexible material that does not lose its electrical properties for many times that it is doubled, it will be able to make folding or flexible screens in the near future”, predicted Guilhot, who works in developing photodetectors to make infrared cameras for night vision , lighter and more diverse than the current ones, and cheaper.

They also develop sensors that biomonitorize the human body and are able to measure the level of oxygenation of blood or muscles by incorporating them into transparent tattoos, which “replace watches, which are not comfortable at bedtime,” he said as an example Guilhot.

“Graphene will not cure cancer, it will not go directly to the inside of the body, but it will help to get a system for earlier detection of cancer with biomonitoring and that will be a very useful advance,” he said.

A detector for water pollution, chips that are implanted inside the damaged eye to recover vision, a lighter car made with graphene or prostheses that respond to nervous stimuli are other applications of the new material that can be seen in this summit organized to connect the academic and industrial world and integrate graphene into real applications and practices.

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