Wearing this graphene-coated jacket is like wearing your very own personal armor made of the strongest steel yet it is stretchy enough to hug your body like any other normal jacket. Until now the challenge has been how to get graphene out of research labs and into the real world. As experimental as it is, you still need to be able to wear it. When it is, we’ll be the first trying to make a lightweight suit of extreme sports armour. … In the meantime we’ll take the strength benefits of a single graphene layer of this early stage technology.42 years after it launched, The Apple 1 computer looks like something from the 19th century. But if even half of what its creators promise is true, it could be worth every cent.

Theoretically you need 10 layers of graphene to stop a bullet and the tech isn’t there yet. With the potential to transform almost every industry from space travel to electronics, graphene is so mind-blowing that its discovery was described as like finding CERN’s Large Hadron Collider on your desk.While graphene’s existence was first theorised in the 1940s, it wasn’t until 2004 that two maverick scientists, Andre Geim and Konstantin Novoselov, were able to isolate and test it. So if you ever end up needing to use the jacket as a life-saving solar panel, here’s how it’s done. The Graphene Jacket from VolleBak is two-sided, with one being coated with the wonder-material, and the other being super-stretch super-strength nylon. The Vollebak Graphene Jacket (£525) is a fully reversible piece of outerwear with a waterproof zipper with one side built from a graphene and polyurethane membrane and the other constructed from 85% nylon and 15% elastane. Which means we’ve been able to make the jacket both breathable and waterproof. The first Graphene Jacket is here, and it’s magical...more akin to a hackathon than a fashion design process. There’s really nothing about it that can make it stand out from the crowd. After similarly leftfield thinking won Geim the 2000 Ig Nobel prize for levitating frogs using magnets, the pair won the Nobel prize in 2010 for the isolation of graphene.Following in Geim and Novoselovs’ Nobel Prize-winning footsteps, we’re releasing graphene-coated jackets into the world as experimental prototypes. Jaw-dropping products are about to see the light and trust us, you don't want to miss them as production is limited due to the nature of the materials we are working with. Speculating that it was thanks to the bacteriostatic properties of graphene which doesn’t let bacteria grow on the surface, he kept the jacket, burned his pants as they smelled so badly of camel, then wrote to us.Which is why we find ourselves 9 months after it launched, and half way through our findings, opening up the test group one final time for the The sheer volume of the requests that we’ve had on email, and the crazily lateral nature of the experiments people are running, convinced us to sell it again before we disappear back into R&D for the next 2+ years.

When we launched the Graphene Jacket 1 in August 2018, Fast Company described it as “more akin to a hackathon than a fashion design process,” and they were right. No other jacket has generated quite a buzz like the Graphene Jacket. And as graphene is only one atom thick, you can do this without adding a single gram of weight.Starting with the basics, because the jacket is reversible the pockets are too.

We use the most advanced materials on Earth to make our jackets and vests, which is how we came to create the world's first Graphene Jacket, why our Solar Charged Jacket can store sunlight like a plant then glow like a firefly, and how our 100 Year Vest can repel fire, wind, water and time.Vollebak aims to do for outdoor clothing what Tesla did for cars and El Bulli did for food, using science, wit and imagination to create products no-one thought possible.The first Graphene Jacket is here, and it’s magical...more akin to a hackathon than a fashion design process. The Alpha Series is the graphene-integrated all-around jacket that sets a new standard for versatility, performance, and comfort. Knowing that the only thing that will ultimately limit what can be done with graphene is our collective imagination, the next logical step for us is getting graphene out into the hands of early adopters to see what happens.It’s hard to experiment with something that only behaves one way, so we made the jacket fully reversible, so there is no inside or outside. As well as being bacteriostatic, the graphene membrane is also known to be hypoallergenic and anti-static, and is certified as non-toxic.14 years after its discovery, graphene remains extremely difficult to work with, incredibly expensive to produce, and very hard to make in large quantities. All the panels are then bonded together and the seams sealed for waterproofness.One of our first prototypes of the Graphene Jacket was so highly conductive you could attach a power source at one end, a light bulb at the other and it would light up. When we built the Graphene Jacket 1 it’s not something we considered. If you then turn it inside out and wear the graphene next to your skin it acts like a radiator, retaining its heat and spreading it around your body. Vollebak, a sports gear manufacturer with an affinity towards using next-gen materials and technologies, is now selling (for 595 euros!) But this time their thinking won them the Nobel Prize.Following in their footsteps it only felt right that our wearer trials should be entirely open-ended, utterly experimental and end up involving a sleeping Chinese camel.15 years after graphene was first discovered, Dr Grant L Holley, one of our customers, was on night watch in the Gobi desert. We use the most advanced materials on Earth to make our jackets and vests, which is how we came to create the world's first Graphene Jacket, why our Solar Charged Jacket can store sunlight like a plant then glow like a firefly, and how our 100 Year Vest can repel fire, wind, water and time.

While clothes have been used for the same basic things over the last 50,000 years – to stay warm, dry, cool and alive – over the next 50 to 50,000 years we will start to use clothing for mental and physical enhancement. Vollebak Graphene Jacket.