An innovative dress made from graphene has been unveiled. 
 
 Cute Circuit have designed the dress, which can change colour and design, in conjunction with scientists at the National Graphene Institute in Manchester and intu Trafford Centre. 
 
 Graphene, which has been hailed as a "wonder material", is tougher than a diamond but stretchable like rubber. 
 
 A form of carbon, it was discovered in 2004 by Andre Geim and Konstantin Novoselov who were awarded the 2010 Nobel prize in physics for their work on the material. ||||| Get What's On updates directly to your inbox + Subscribe Thank you for subscribing! Could not subscribe, try again later Invalid Email 
 
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 The classic little black dress design has been given a twist by the boffins behind Manchester's wonder material graphene. 
 
 Designer Francesca Rosella, of tech-fashion company Cute Circuit, has used the super light two-dimensional material to create a dress that reacts to the person wearing it. 
 
 Dubbed the 'intu little black graphene dress', it responds to the breathing rates of the wearer, changing colour and illuminating in different ways, and the designer hopes it will open up people's imaginations about the future of graphene. 
 
 It has been created with the support of the National Graphene Institute at the University of Manchester and intu Trafford Centre. 
 
 Graphene is lighter than paper and stronger than steel, and is highly conductive. Crucially, says Dr Paul Wiper, research associate at the National Graphene Institute, the dress also highlights its versatility. 
 
 (Photo: Dominic Salter) 
 
 Dr Wiper explains: "Graphene is still very much in its infancy for real world applications and showcasing its amazing properties through the forum of fashion is very exciting. 
 
 "The dress is truly one of a kind and shows what creativity, imagination and a desire to innovate can create using graphene and related two-dimensional materials.” 
 
 The dress was given its first twirl on the catwalk by Britain’s Next Top Model finalist Bethan Sowerby and is now on display at the intu Trafford Centre. 
 
 (Photo: PA) 
 
 Hi-tech clothing expert Francesca Rosella, who has previously created wearables for Katy Perry and Nicole Scherzinger, said she was honoured to be the first to put graphene into clothing - starting with such a classic garment that shows off graphene's "amazing properties". ||||| Another week, another graphene breakthrough. Researchers in Austria have managed to demonstrate that the wonder material is excellent at carrying huge currents on the nano scale. 
 
 Of late, graphene has shown itself to be not only an excellent malleable sensor, but a possible solution to solving our overabundance of CO2 in the atmosphere. 
 
 A new breakthrough has shown graphene’s ability to transmit huge amounts of electric current at a microscopic level, which could add to its possible future in advanced electronics. 
 
 The international research team led by Prof Fritz Aumayr from the Institute of Applied Physics at TU Vienna was able to demonstrate that the electrons in graphene are extremely mobile and react very quickly. 
 
 This is achieved by impacting xenon ions with a particularly high electric charge on a graphene film that leads to a large number of electrons being torn away from the graphene in a very precise spot. 
 
 Yet within a matter of femtoseconds, the electrons had been replaced within the material, resulting in very irregular, extremely high currents. 
 
 Astounding results 
 
 “The xenon ion penetrates the graphene film, thereby knocking a carbon atom out of the graphene – but that has very little effect, as the gap that has opened up in the graphene is then refilled with another carbon atom,” said Elisabeth Gruber of the research group. 
 
 “For us, what is much more interesting is how the electrical field of the highly charged ion affects the electrons in the graphene film.” 
 
 Emphasising the weirdness of the sudden transformation of xenon ions into positive ones, Gruber’s colleague Richard Wilhelm described the process as “astounding”. 
 
 “What you would expect to happen now is for these positively charged carbon ions to repel one another, flying off in what is called a Coulomb explosion and leaving a large gap in the material. 
 
 “But astoundingly, that is not the case. The positive charge in the graphene is neutralised almost instantaneously.” 
 
 The end goal for the team’s research is to develop ultra-fast electronics using the single atom-thick material, particularly in connecting optical and electronic components. 
 
 The team’s research has been published in Nature Communications. ||||| These crawls are part of an effort to archive pages as they are created and archive the pages that they refer to. That way, as the pages that are referenced are changed or taken from the web, a link to the version that was live when the page was written will be preserved.Then the Internet Archive hopes that references to these archived pages will be put in place of a link that would be otherwise be broken, or a companion link to allow people to see what was originally intended by a page's authors.The goal is to fix all broken links on the web . Crawls of supported "No More 404" sites.
– Two scientists first isolated graphene in 2004 and went on to win a Nobel prize for bringing to the world's attention a "wonder material" that conducts electricity better than anything else and has the potential to revolutionize fields from computing to travel, recounts the Guardian. It's a safe bet they never foresaw this application: This super thin and strong form of carbon is entering the world of fashion—in the form of a little black dress with tiny LED lights that change color in time with the model's breath. (See a video here.) Graphene powered the lights and functioned as a sensor, while nylon fabric helped fill out the dress itself. The team behind it says it suggests dresses of the future could change color on the fly, notes Smithsonian. The dress was created by high-tech clothing expert Francesca Rosella for tech-fashion company Cute Circuit, and Britain's Next Top Model finalist Bethan Sowerby took it for a spin on the catwalk in Manchester, reports the Manchester Evening News. Because graphene is, as the BBC describes it, stronger than diamonds yet stretchable like rubber, researchers say it is still in its "infancy" in terms of its use in real-world applications. The Silicon Republic reports that among several recent breakthroughs, graphene has been shown to transmit massive amounts of electric current at the nano level, which could have far-reaching effects on electronics. (Graphene's structure has even inspired a new condom.)