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Graphene, a one-atom thick individual planar carbon layer, has been reported to possess a range of unique and exclusive properties and is consequently being explored in a plethora of scientific disciplines. Although theoretically graphene has been scientifically investigated since the 1940s and was known to exist since the 1960s, the recent burst of interest can be correlated with work by Geim and Novoselov in 2004/2005, who reported the so-called ‘‘scotch tape method’’for the production of graphene in addition to identifying its unique electronic properties. Thereafter, the 2010 Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded jointly to Geim and Novoselov ‘‘for groundbreaking experiments regarding the two-dimensional material graphene’’. As a result there is a global pursuit to find new ‘industrial scale’methodologies for the facile fabrication of pristine graphene and other graphene family members. Furthermore, graphene …