Graphene is a remarkable material, it is transparent, flexible and strong, yet it can conduct
electricity. Its metal-like amiability for electron flow across the two-dimensional sheet has given so much buzz that it has been cited more than any material known to man.
Graphene holds promise for high-speed transistors, and flexible, durable conductive touchscreens, biosensors, photonics, energy storage devices and the list goes on and on. Though the hurdle of mass production still torments and offers a frontier for scientists and engineers to fight for.
Graphene was uncovered or discovered as a consequence of a discussion during brainstorming sessions in Geim's lab, when one of students was asked to get extremely thin layer of graphite.
It was a simple yet renowned, Nobel prize awarding (2004), scotch tape exfoliation method a decade ago that has now been among the most cited papers in applied sciences. Novoselov, is the youngest (beaten only by 3 years) laureate in physics since 1973, when Brian D. Josephson, (age33) for discovering a phenomenon now taught after his name "the Josephson effect".
On the day of Nobel announcement, physicist Per Delsing of the Chalmers University of Technology in Göteborg, Sweden, explained that a hypothetical one-square-meter hammock made out of graphene would be strong enough to support a four-kilogram cat. The hammock itself, just one atom thick, would weigh roughly one milligram—about the same as one of the cat's whiskers.
Graphene holds promise for high-speed transistors, and flexible, durable conductive touchscreens, biosensors, photonics, energy storage devices and the list goes on and on. Though the hurdle of mass production still torments and offers a frontier for scientists and engineers to fight for.
Graphene was uncovered or discovered as a consequence of a discussion during brainstorming sessions in Geim's lab, when one of students was asked to get extremely thin layer of graphite.
It was a simple yet renowned, Nobel prize awarding (2004), scotch tape exfoliation method a decade ago that has now been among the most cited papers in applied sciences. Novoselov, is the youngest (beaten only by 3 years) laureate in physics since 1973, when Brian D. Josephson, (age33) for discovering a phenomenon now taught after his name "the Josephson effect".
On the day of Nobel announcement, physicist Per Delsing of the Chalmers University of Technology in Göteborg, Sweden, explained that a hypothetical one-square-meter hammock made out of graphene would be strong enough to support a four-kilogram cat. The hammock itself, just one atom thick, would weigh roughly one milligram—about the same as one of the cat's whiskers.
