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Taking graphene out of the laboratory and into the real world

Business developer Cinzia Spinato helps nanoscientists to translate their inventions into marketable products.
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Cinzia Spinato at the lab of Institut Català de Nanociència in Barcelona Spain

Business developer Cinzia Spinato splits her time between the Catalan Institute of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology in Barcelona and the European Union’s Graphene Flagship consortium. Credit: Anna Huix for Nature

I’m a business developer at the Catalan Institute of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology (ICN2) in Barcelona, Spain. My job is to help scientists to market their ideas and inventions. Lately, most of those ideas involve graphene, a layer of carbon that is just one atom thick. Graphene is as hard as a diamond but very flexible. It’s transparent, highly conductive and extremely versatile — properties that are helping to revolutionize fields such as biomedical sensing and electronics.

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Nature 590, 684 (2021)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-021-00463-8

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