--- title: Graphene: The Material Of Tomorrow description: Meet the wonder material that is one hundred thousandth of the thickness of a human hair, yet is a hundred times stronger than steel canonical: https://time.com/3943209/graphene-material-science/ author: TIME Video article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-07-01T15:36:01.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T08:05:53.980Z article:section: Science og:title: Graphene: The Material Of Tomorrow og:description: Graphene: The Material Of Tomorrow og:url: https://time.com/3943209/graphene-material-science/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt1a8c5e4c9e2f8e4d/69885947a988cadf856b34ab/1920-graphene.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: 1920-graphene.jpg og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Graphene: The Material Of Tomorrow twitter:description: Graphene: The Material Of Tomorrow twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt1a8c5e4c9e2f8e4d/69885947a988cadf856b34ab/1920-graphene.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Graphene: The Material Of Tomorrow by [TIME Video](https://time.com/author/time-video/) ## TIME Video Jul 1, 2015 3:36 PM UTC  by [TIME Video](https://time.com/author/time-video/) ## TIME Video Jul 1, 2015 3:36 PM UTC ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3943209/graphene-material-science/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3943209/graphene-material-science/"},"headline":"Graphene: The Material Of Tomorrow","datePublished":"2015-07-01T15:36:01.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T08:05:53.980Z","description":"Meet the wonder material that is one hundred thousandth of the thickness of a human hair, yet is a hundred times stronger than steel. Graphene has been called \"the most exciting material of the 21st century,\" yet we have barely scratched the surface of what it is capable of doing","url":"https://time.com/3943209/graphene-material-science/","keywords":["Solutions That Matter","Tech","Columbia University"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt1a8c5e4c9e2f8e4d/69885947a988cadf856b34ab/1920-graphene.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"TIME Video","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/time-video/"}],"articleSection":"Science","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt1a8c5e4c9e2f8e4d/69885947a988cadf856b34ab/1920-graphene.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"1920-graphene.jpg","caption":"","creditText":"","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/science/","name":"Science"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/solutions-that-matter/","name":"Solutions That Matter"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3943209/graphene-material-science/","name":"Graphene: The Material Of Tomorrow"}}]}] ```