Museum of Science and Industry,Manchester
Faced with an invisible fabric and no whizzy inventions to show, this exhibition pays underwhelming homage to a Nobel prize-winning discoveryIt’s been hailed as the wonder fabric that will revolutionise everything from smartphones and car tyres to aeroplanes and condoms. But the problem with graphene, or for the curators of a fresh exhibition at the Museum of Science and Industry,is that you can’t actually see it. And none of these potentially miraculous applications for the atom-thick fabric have actually been invented yet.“There’s never been so much expectation invested in a fresh fabric,” says Danielle Olsen, and co-curator of Wonder Materials: Graphene and Beyond,which opened this week in the city where this mercurial form of super-thin carbon was first loney in 2004. “It’s under a lot of pressure to perform.”
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Source: theguardian.com