Graphene - Watch This Space
Blog You may have noticed the odd article about a new form of carbon called graphene. Graphene is certainly an odd substance - it's a layer of carbon atoms in a hexagonal lattice, just one atom thick. Graphene can be a metal or a semiconductor, it has...
[March 7, 2007, 20:18]
Flashy Balls Make For Mega-memory
Blog We've reported on the extremely weird behaviour of graphene before: it seems that when you put just a few sheets of planar carbon together, electrons behave almost as if they're a different kind of particle operating under different physical laws.
[April 22, 2008, 15:42]
Pencil + Sticky Tape = Desktop Supercollider + Post-silicon Processors
Blog Graphene is made from stacks of very flat sheets of hexagonally linked carbon atoms. Then, by the insanely simple expedient of using adhesive tape to peel off layers from ordinary graphite, then rubbing those layers gently against an oxidised...
[November 6, 2007, 9:15]
British Scientists Create Atom-thick Transistor
News The researchers, from the University of Manchester, published a paper in the journal Science last week, in which they said they had managed to carve tiny electronic circuits out of a substance called graphene, with each transistor being barely...
[April 21, 2008, 14:17]
Carbon Copy The Future Of Physics
Blog A paper from two researchers, Yakov Kopelevich in San Paulo and Pablo Esquinaz in Leipzig, reports that good old fashioned graphite has a whole bunch of exciting electronic properties and that this, rather than the currently fashionable single...
[January 3, 2008, 19:34]
