Truth is stranger than fiction...

It's called "Graphene," but folks often refer to it as "atomic chicken wire."  As Doug Peeples notes in his recent article, "It has a breaking strength 200 times stronger than steel, but it's so thin that three million sheets would give you a stack one millimeter thick." Will it be a smart grid wonder?  Only time will tell.  In the meantime, it's certainly interesting to keep an eye on.