This is graphene. A new super material so strong it would take an elephant balanced on a pencil to break through a piece as thin as cling film... you need to know about this.   Hailed as the 21st Century’s “miracle material”, companies such as Samsung, IBM and Nokia are racing to join the 200 start ups (and counting), pouring time and money conducting research into the material with results showing its potential to digitise and transform the technological world as we know it. With the promise of thinner, more flexible, faster, stronger, cheaper, and ultimately more efficient products, it’s been predicted that the next five years will see a surge in graphene products appearing in the market.   This super material consists of one-atom think sheets of bonded carbon atoms so thin that 3 million sheets of it would barely reach one millimetre in thickness. As well as being the strongest material ever measured, graphene boasts a growing list of possible uses such as single molecule gas detection, transparent conducting electrodes and bacterial killing super powers.