Timeline
- 1900–1946
- 1947 — Wallace band structure
- 1948–1961
- 1962 — Boehm monolayers
- 1963-2003 — Name, epitaxy, near misses
- 2004 — Isolation at Manchester
- 2005
- 2005–2009 — Dirac physics and a research gold rush
- 2006
- 2007
- 2008
- 2009
- 2010
- 2011
- 2011–2012 — Post-Nobel acceleration
- 2012
- 2013
- 2014
- 2014–2019 — Roadmaps, pilots, early products
- 2015
- 2016
- 2017
- 2018
- 2019
- 2020
- 2020–2025 — Industrialization and Flagship hangover
- 2021
- 2022
- 2023
- 2024
- 2025
- 2026 — Current year
- Before 1900
- Pre-chemistry — graphite before laboratories