The University of Manchester in the UK has been at the forefront of graphene research ever since Andre Geim and Konstantin Novoselov fabricated the single atom-thick sheets of carbon back in 2004 and were awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics in 2010 for it.

Since then researchers across the globe have been exploring the possibilities of this wonder material, especially in the field of electronics despite it not possessing an inherent band gap. The research has not only been geographically spread out but also in terms of both commercial and government research institutions being involved in it. In short, it seems like just about any lab doing work in nanomaterials has at least one researcher working on graphene.