Department of Applied Chemistry, J.L. Chaturvedi College of Engineering, Nagpur-09 (INDIA)

Graphene has emerged as 21st century material and is potent enough to serve a future science and technologies. Research published in the journal Nature Communication states that graphene, the world’s thinnest material at one atom thick and 100 times stronger than steel. Due to other similar versatile physico-chemical properties, graphene and its derivatives are being studied in nearly every field of science and engineering. Recent progress has shown that the graphene-based materials can have a profound impact on electronic and optoelectronic devices, chemical sensors, catalysis and nano-composites and energy storage. In the current article we took a brief review of important scientific properties of graphene and its application in various fields, Along with this, synthesis routes for the respective material is discussed in brief.