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How to make graphene

How to make graphene

Sellotape and sugar rub shoulders with high-temperature furnaces and low-pressure chambers in a rush to produce graphene, which aims to be the 21st century's successor to silicon Read more

8 June, 2011 by Lucy Sherriff
The future of graphene

The future of graphene

...work characterising graphene triggered an explosion of research, and won them the Nobel Prize. Graphene hints at a world of electronics beyond silicon, unshackled from... Read more

15 June, 2011 by Lucy Sherriff
What is graphene?

What is graphene?

...seeding Earth with the ingredients of life. Their discovery won the 1996 Nobel Prize for Chemistry for Harold W Kroto, Robert F Curl and Richard... Read more

6 June, 2011 by Lucy Sherriff

Manchester graphene researchers land Nobel Prize

...Two University of Manchester scientists have been awarded this year's Nobel Prize in Physics for their work on graphene, widely seen as having... Read more

5 October, 2010 by Karen Friar

Nobel prize winner waves magnetic wand over graphene

Professor Andre Geim, one of the researchers awarded the Nobel prize for his work with Graphene, announced yesterday that he and his... Read more

15 April, 2011
<endeca_term>Nobel Prize</endeca_term> Encyclopedia 1.001

Nobel Prize Encyclopedia 1.001

This application is an infomatic application. This application provides general information of nobel prize winners Read more

15 September, 2011
<endeca_term>Nobel Prize</endeca_term> Winner Hall of Fame 1.0

Nobel Prize Winner Hall of Fame 1.0

...Limited Time Only!Do you know who was the first awarded the Nobel prize in Chemisty? And who is Liu Xiaobo?As of today, 813... Read more

20 July, 2011

Graphene - your handy take-away guide

Graphene is getting some decent press at last. Its Nobel prize winning discovery has quickly mutated into an entire field of enquiry... Read more

18 November, 2011

Lasers could illuminate band gap for graphene

Graphene: famous for being a Nobel Prize prompting wonder material, and for having no band gap. The lack... Read more

20 June, 2011

Fluoro-Graphene: coming soon to an electronics design lab near you

From the Nobel prize-winning team who brought you the honeycomb structure sheet of carbon... Read more

5 November, 2010

Graphene researchers scoop Physics Nobel

Two physicists from the University of Manchester are to share the Nobel Prize for their work on wonder-material graphene. Dr Andrei Geim and... Read more

6 October, 2010

Google search gets semantic with Knowledge Graph

...Graph, and she had two children, one of whom also won a Nobel Prize, as well as a husband, Pierre Curie, who claimed a third... Read more

17 May, 2012 by David Meyer

Quantum dots boost graphene's photodetector dreams

...own graphene flakes using the same technique as the graphene discovering and Nobel Prize winning team of Geim and Novoselov. Then, using Nanoscale lithography, they... Read more

18 May, 2012
Steve Jobs's career at Apple in pictures

Steve Jobs's career at Apple in pictures

...on microbiology and a chat with Paul Berg, who had won a Nobel prize in biochemistry, Hawkins recounts. "To define the next wave in computers... Read more

25 August, 2011 by Jonathan E Skillings
History of storage: Cuneiform tablets to flash

History of storage: Cuneiform tablets to flash

...discovery in 1988 to market in 1998 — and earned its discoverers the Nobel Prize in 2007. Credit: Paul R Potts/Wiki Commons Read more

5 November, 2010 by Rupert Goodwins

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