Bill Gates is funding an innovative product which aims to provide a more secured sexual protection—graphene condom-- being developed by the new National Graphene Institute.

The Manchester-based new National Graphene Institute faces a new challenge to create stronger, thinner condoms out of a new “wonder material.” The challenge came from none other than the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and awarded the institute’s scientists $100,000.

The safer condoms is said to be incorporated with latex to come up with a product that through the enhancement of sensations, will encourage users to use this safe sexual measure.

Graphene, the “wonder material,” is the strongest and thinnest material suited for creating condoms that was first isolated at the University of Manchester in 2004. The breakthrough of discovering grapheme brought the Nobel Prize for Physics in 2012 to Manchester-based scientists Sir Kostya Novoselov and Sir Andre Geim.

Aside from using it in creating condoms, it is also oftentimes linked to likely revolutionize products like smartphones and broadband.

Gates’ Foundation offered the Grand Challenges Explorations grant to the research team to produce new composite materials for condoms, making it more desirable and sought-after, thus increasing the over-all usage of this sexual protection.

Dr. Papa Salif Sow, a senior program officer on the HIV team at the foundation, told BBC News, “redesigned condom that overcomes inconvenience, fumbling or perceived loss of pleasure would be a powerful weapon in the fight against poverty.”

Dr. Aravind Vijayaraghavan, who will lead the researchers, told BBC News that since it was kept away from the public, “people have wondered when graphene will be used in our daily life.”

“Currently, people imagine using graphene in mobile phone screens, food packaging and chemical sensors.

“If this project is successful, we might have [an everyday] use which will literally touch our everyday life in the most intimate way.”