EU Bets a Billion on Fantastic Voyage Exploiting Graphene

In a laboratory at the University of Manchester, a team led by Kostas Kostarelos is studying the safety of graphene, a carbon film one atom thick.

Determining whether the new material damages human organs is the first step toward Kostarelos’s more ambitious goal: using graphene to build tiny drones that deliver medicine internally, reminiscent of “Fantastic Voyage,” the 1966 science-fiction thriller set inside the human body.