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1. Interview in progress
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Konstantin Novoselov, Nobel Laureate in Physics (partially overlaid with shot 3):
"What we see now (is) that the technological development of graphene is experiencing the second revolution. So it's growing. It started to grow again over the last maybe couple of years, grows really intensively. Traditional technologies where graphene is being used is in energy, like batteries, in electronics, and in composite materials, but these days we see an increasing amount of graphene and 2D materials being used in optoelectronics, in telecommunications, and that's probably the most exciting areas for me. Biological applications, healthcare, are developing very fast. That's very interesting as well. There are suggestions that graphene can be used as a space sail to produce new types of interstellar spaceships. So there are some very interesting, very unusual applications indeed."

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3. Various of graphene materials, equipment in operation
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4. Equipment for graphene application in operation

Beijing, China - Released on Oct 2, 2026 (CCTV - No access Chinese mainland)
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Konstantin Novoselov, Nobel Laureate in Physics (starting with shot 4/partially overlaid with shot 6):
"In the labs, we do it all the time. And that's probably the main direction of research for many, many labs in the world, because graphene was and still is one of the most popular topics in science at the moment. But lots of labs now work on artificial materials, when we combine three-dimensional stacks from graphene, but from some other 2D materials as well. So at least in the labs, it's a very popular direction. Would be nice to see if it's going to become -- I’m sure it will become -- a reality one day."
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6. Animation showing graphene structure
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FILE: Qitaihe City, Heilongjiang Province, northeast China - Aug 6-7, 2018 (CGTN - No access Chinese mainland)
7. Various of researchers working in laboratory

Graphene, the revolutionary two-dimensional material that rewrote the rules of materials science two decades ago, is undergoing a second major technological revolution, according to Nobel Laureate in physics Konstantin Novoselov.

Discovered in 2004 by Novoselov and fellow physicist of the University of Manchester Andre Geim using a simple mechanical exfoliation method, graphene has long been hailed as a wonder material. Composed of a single layer of carbon atoms, it boasts exceptional properties -- about 200 times the strength of steel, along with superior electrical and thermal conductivity -- and helped usher in the global era of two-dimensional materials.

The groundbreaking discovery earned the two physicists the 2010 Nobel Prize in Physics, with Novoselov becoming one of the youngest Nobel laureates in history at the age of 36.

After years of technological advances and industrial development, graphene has achieved widespread commercialization in conventional sectors. Now, the field is entering a new phase of rapid growth, signaling what some describe as graphene's second revolution.

In an exclusive interview with China Media Group, Novoselov outlined recent breakthroughs and the future potential of graphene and other two-dimensional materials.

"What we see now (is) that the technological development of graphene is experiencing the second revolution. So it's growing. It started to grow again over the last maybe couple of years, grows really intensively. Traditional technologies where graphene is being used is in energy, like batteries, in electronics, and in composite materials, but these days we see an increasing amount of graphene and 2D materials being used in optoelectronics, in telecommunications, and that's probably the most exciting areas for me. Biological applications, healthcare, are developing very fast. That's very interesting as well. There are suggestions that graphene can be used as a space sail to produce new types of interstellar spaceships. So there are some very interesting, very unusual applications indeed," Novoselov explained.

Beyond graphene itself, the exploration of new two-dimensional materials is paving the way for the next leap in materials science.

Looking further ahead, combining graphene with other two-dimensional materials to create artificial layered structures has become a major research direction for laboratories around the world.

"In the labs, we do it all the time. And that's probably the main direction of research for many, many labs in the world, because graphene was and still is one of the most popular topics in science at the moment. But lots of labs now work on artificial materials, when we combine three-dimensional stacks from graphene, but from some other 2D materials as well. So at least in the labs, it's a very popular direction. Would be nice to see if it's going to become -- I’m sure it will become -- a reality one day," said Novoselov.