> I'm also kinda bummed that this kind of research doesn't have a higher profile in the US. Graphene gets a ton of attention, do not worry. It is one of the m

> I'm also kinda bummed that this kind of research doesn't have a higher profile in the US. Graphene gets a ton of attention, do not worry. It is one of the most competitive areas of materials science research. When my former gradschool groupmate did his proposal on it and all the experiments he wished to do for his PhD thesis (keep in mind he spent a year putting this proposal together) most of the experiments had already been done by the time his proposal was actually accepted. When I left the program, there was literally a "groundbreaking" paper per a week coming out in Science or Nature, and all the other publications were being flooded.