Industrial production of graphene is going to change society as much as integrated circuits have.
With developments like this, the governments of the world will outlaw the processes except for their military, and LEOs, of course...............
You may be correct. Take aircraft construction for example. Right now carbon fiber is quickly becoming the material of choice for bodies and empennages. I would think a composite material consisting of alternating layers of graphene and carbon fiber would be thinner and therefore lighter yet have the same level of strength as all carbon fiber construction. The weight savings would be significant.
.... until they discover that graphene in the environment causes the Woody Tufted Brown Throatwarbler to lay thinner eggs.
I suspect far far more. Saw a YouTube vid yesterday extolling a COMMERCIALLY AVAILABLE (according to the vid) graphene battery.
but not until they figure out how to produce industrial quantity & quality graphene. same goes for carbon nanotubes.