I think this Warrants my First Pin as a GLP Lurker

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Article Title:

“Those nanobots from ‘The X-Files’ are now a real thing”

Excerpt:

“As for the high-tech gadgetry, Berry turned to graphene, a “wonder material” that “could change the world.”
Graphene was invented, more or less by accident, in 2004. A one-atom-thick sheet of carbon, graphene is the thinnest, strongest and most conductive material known to humankind.”

“We read a paper on spores and we were interested in sensors, so what we did is we took these graphene quantum dots — essentially 100 nanometer square sheets of graphene, which is, again, a single atom thick sheet — and we put these graphene quantum dots on the surface of a spore, and then we applied two electrodes on the end of the spore,” he explained. “When the humidity around the spore changes, what happens is that the spore either contracts or expands, and that contraction or expansion changes the way electrons move through these graphene quantum dots, which are on the surface of these spores.”