Graphene is ultra-thin, uncommonly strong, and heat and electricity conduct via it with less resistance than any substance that exists. For discovering graphene, a pair of Russian physicists have achieved fame and fortune. They get to split the $1.4 million check that comes with the 2010 Nobel Prize in Physics. Physics labs around the world are experimenting with graphene in ways that may lead to unprecedented technological leaps in computers, televisions and exotic new resources.
Scotch tape assists to discover Graphene
Graphene was found by new Nobel laureates Andre Geim and Konstantin Novoselov at Manchester University. The New York Times accounts that while investigating the electrical properties of graphite, they tried peeling layers of it off with Scotch tape. They ended up with an interesting form of carbon. It was a single atom thick actually. The Times explained that a sheet of Graphene stretched over a coffee cup will reinforce the weight of a truck bearing down on pencil point because of how thin and powerful it really is. Graphene’s amazing ability to conduct electricity and heat could make silicon obsolete in computer chips, work as an ultra-sensitive pollution-monitoring material, revolutionize flat screen TVs and enable the exploration of new physics.
Existence may entirely transform with graphene
Geim told CNN he envisioned that graphene applications might modify everyday living much like plastic did. Atoms are arranged like chicken wire into a hexagonal array of carbon which ends up making it a two-dimensional material. Graphene is “fundamentally different” from three dimensional graphite because it is flexible. Two dimensional materials like graphene lead researchers into areas of all dimensions including zero-dimensional atoms and one-dimensional nanowires. This is what Geim and Graphene Industries explained while working together closely. Geim told Cable News Network that it is impossible to describe the range of possible graphene applications.
What technology is coming from graphene
Around the globe there are many laboratories working with graphene. PC World accounts that scientists at University of California, Berkeley stretched graphene and noticed that it reacted as though it were exposed to a powerful magnetic field. Knowing this about the material can make it possible to build electronic devices differently. It will help to replace parts with it. According to Science, technology could be changing with a finding in South Korea. Researchers figured out how to get sheets large enough to act as a touch screen much better than the ones we have now.
Citations
New York Times
nytimes.com/2010/10/06/science/06nobel.html?_r=1 and hp
CNN
edition.cnn.com/2010/LIVING/10/05/sweden.nobel.physics/
PC World
pcworld.com/article/206931/graphene_nanobubbles_could_mean_more_powerful_gadgets.html?tk=hp_new
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