in small fragments—microscopic bits of graphene are even produced when school kids scratch the tip of a pure-carbon graphite ...

Magnets and superconductors go together like oil and water—or so scientists have thought. But a new finding by MIT physicists ...

When graphene is stacked in multiple layers, it creates graphite — which is at the core of a pencil. If you like, imagine the pencil’s core to be a tower of your favourite sandwich ...

Their work described the extraordinary electronic properties of graphene, a crystalline form ... that a material effectively obtained from pencil lead with sticky tape was really what it claimed ...

“A typical pencil lead consists of about 10 million layers of graphene.” Hexagonal stacking, also known as AB stacking, occurs when even-numbered graphene layers are aligned, with the odd-numbered ...

Graphene – so common that it’s in any note scribbled with pencil – wasn’t discovered until 2004. Bird earned a PhD in physics, but he was drawn to electrical engineering because it allowed him to ...

A symbol of education is the humble pencil—a simple column of graphite enclosed in wood. Today, graphite holds the key to many problems we face today related to graphene. Recent vital ...

Two decades ago, two scientists were playing around with sticky tape on a Friday night when they discovered the "miracle" material that went on to earn them a Nobel Prize. Graphene, a single layer ...