Evidence: Well-supported as a research-theme year. Market-size PDFs are forecasts.
Science
Van der Waals heterostructures — graphene plus hBN plus (soon) TMDCs — are treated as the device, not a lone FET on SiO₂. Encapsulated stacks raise mobility and cut substrate disorder. This is continuous with Dean et al. 2010 (2010), now a field style.
Reviews start saying the quiet part: without a band gap you do not build a low-power digital switch that looks like CMOS. RF, sensors, photonics, membranes, and additives are the honest near paths.
Money and language
Consultancies publish billion-dollar “graphene market 2020” charts. File as forecast. Flagship selection politics continue; the Commission decision lands in January 2013.
Industry texture
Powder/platelet capacity announcements vs CVD-film pilots vs SiC wafers are three businesses. Coverage that uses one word for all three is the bias this archive is trying not to copy.
Open
Contacts, transfer contamination (PMMA and cousins), grain boundaries on Cu CVD, and a definition of “graphene” a purchasing agent can put in a contract (ISO vocabulary is still years out: 2017).