On Sunday, October 3, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences awareded the 2010 Nobel Prize in Physics to University of Manchester professors Andre Geim and Konstantin Novoselov for their work on isolating graphene from the graphite crystal. The Norwegian committee announced, “Carbon, the basis of all known life on earth, has surprised us once again.”
Interestingly, isolating the graphene was simple – as simple as peeling graphene off of a graphite crystal using Scotch tape.
To learn more about graphene and its real life applications, visit http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/10/101005085507.htm.
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