Carbon Flakes (aka graphene) just earned a pair of University of Manchester students $1.4 million, oh and the Nobel prize. Think nanometer material that is unbelievably strong (Wikipedia).
While we might be a few years off, there is certainly some potential to see new paradigm shifts in certain markets:
- What could a light weight, strong coating do to the car market where weight and MPG are inversely related?
- What could it mean to the military in terms of personnel and vehicle armor?
- What could it do to clothing?
- How about kitchen materials?
- How about computer components?
- Plastics?
If you believe this could impact your products, your market, what would you do? When would you need to start thinking about it? How do you discuss items that might change your space?
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