Even if you only keep a loose watch on tech news, there’s still a pretty good chance you’ve heard about graphene at some point or another. For the past few years, this stuff (which is basically a 2D sheet of carbon atoms) has been hailed as a wonder material that will one day enable us to build everything from superfast computer chips to unbreakable condoms, and everything in between.

The only problem? It’s notoriously difficult to manufacture in large quantities. Scientists have developed a number of different lab production techniques, ranging from the incredibly complex to the unbelievably simple, but despite all the research going on in this area, nobody has really devised a viable way to mass produce graphene — until now.

Detailed in a recently-published study in Scientific Reports, a team of researchers from MIT and the University of Michigan have cooked up a new method for continuous production of graphene — a process that could finally bring the exotic material out of the lab and into all the high-flying commercial applications we’ve been dreaming about for the past few years.