We don't talk much about graphene these days. After a furious round of excitement and research half a decade ago, the topic has largely cooled off. Part of the reason why is because it proved ...

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

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

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 ...

Graphene is a close relative of graphite, the material from which pencil lead is made. Whereas graphite is comprised of many layers of carbon stacked atop one another, graphene is a crystalline ...

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 ...

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, a one-atom-thick sheet of carbon, was first discovered in 2004 by scientists using sticky tape to take layers off pencil graphite, but scaling up its production has proved difficult.

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 ...