Nobel Prize Falls Flat

Professor Andre Geim and his colleague Konstantin Novoselov, Russian emigres now both from the University of Manchester (UK), earned the physics prize for their experimental work on "graphene", which is a very special form of carbon. Atoms in graphene form a single plane - a two-dimensional lattice only a single atom thick. Graphene is amazing stuff: it's strong, stiff, flexible, transparent and impermeable with remarkable electronic properties as well.

Atomic-scale Chicken Wire Audio Embed: CBC Radio's Quirks & Quarks 10/9/10, Host: Bob McDonald.