I remember back in the early 1990s when Fullerenes (’Buckyballs’); Sorta similar to graphene, were going to revolutionize the world and advance technology by orders of magnitude.
Buckyballs turned out to be a whole ‘nuther can of worms:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/federal_government/federal-regulators-suing-buckyballs-founder-in-rare-product-recall-case/2014/01/05/5b8c19ec-5087-11e3-a7f0-b790929232e1_story.html