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

However, researchers at MIT have discovered that both these contradictory properties live side by side in a rare form of ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

“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 ...

in small fragments—microscopic bits of graphene are even produced when school kids scratch the tip of a pure-carbon graphite pencil over paper. But despite some valiant early attempts ...