UK Chancellor George Osborne has announced an extra £195 million (€224m) for science including plans for a centre to commercialise research into graphene.
Speaking at the Conservative party’s annual conference in Manchester on 3 October, Osborne revealed that £50m has been earmarked to fund a graphene research hub, which could be hosted in the city. The University of Manchester is home to the Russian-born physicists Andre Geim and Konstantin Novoselov who scooped the 2010 Nobel prize for their work on graphene.
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