Nokia Receives $1.35B Grant To Develop Graphene Tech

Posted by samzenpus on Thursday January 31, 2013 @02:57PM from the future-is-now dept.

silverpig writes "It now appears that graphene has reached a point worthy of serious, direct industrial attention. The grant money itself comes from the European Union for the Future and Emerging Technologies (FET), but the work will be done by a large non-governmental company with eyes on developing useful real-world applications. Smartphones contain many components with high potential for making use of graphene. From the article: 'Nokia is leading the electronic firms within the Graphene Flagship Consortium, which includes 73 other companies and academic institutions from a number of mediums. The Finnish handset manufacturer has received a grant of $1.35 billion to research and develop graphene for practical applications, with the European Union for the Future and Emerging Technologies (FET) providing the grant itself.'"

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Re:This Could Be Promising by interkin3tic · 2013-01-31 17:24 · Score: 4, Funny

Other articles I've read say that's half of it promised in matching funds, and even that isn't completely certain.

I didn't know it was all going to Nokia. That's surprising. I'm guessing they'll make an amazing phone out of graphene, foldable, a trillion core processor, flies, and has AI... and then they'll kill it off and only sell windows phones.