Question

which is strongest material....graphite or graphene...??

Answer 1

The authors of this atricle: http://www.sciencemag.org/content/321/5887/385 measured elastic properties of graphene and according to them, it is the strongest material ever measured.

Answer 2

Graphene is much stronger material then graphite as graphene is a flat monolayer of carbon atoms tightly packed into a two-dimensional (2D) honeycomb lattice, and is a basic building block for graphitic materials of all other dimensionalities. It can be wrapped up into 0D fullerenes, rolled into 1D nanotubes or stacked into 3D graphite.

Answer 3

if graphene is building blocks of graphite why graphite is not teh strongest material...it contains bundle of graphene sheets..wont that make it stronger..?

Answer 4

Imagine a neat stack of DVD discs... let's say 2 meters high.
you can easily overthrow that DVD column by tipping it a little, but you would never tear a single disc apart with the same force.