The EU’s €1 billion Graphene Flagship project is 10 years old, which means it has formally run its course. Taking stock last week, the project’s leaders emphasised its achievements. “At last count we had 83 patents, and we have well over 5,000 publications, which have been cited almost 300,000 times,” said the director Jari Kinaret, of Chalmers University of Technology in Sweden. “We have a little more than 100 products on the market, and we have launched 17 spin-off companies.”