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,
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