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ARTICLE nATuRE CommunICATIons | 3:763 | DoI: 10.1038/ncomms1767 | /naturecommunications ? 2012 Macmillan Publishers Limited. All rights reserved. Received 28 Jul 2011 | Accepted 29 Feb 2012 | Published 27 mar 2012 DOI: 10.1038/ncomms1767 Direct interfacing of nanosensors onto biomaterials could impact health quality monitoring and adaptive threat detection. Graphene is capable of highly sensitive analyte detection due to its nanoscale nature. Here we show that graphene can be printed onto water-soluble silk. This in turn permits intimate biotransfer of graphene nanosensors onto biomaterial