One atom thick, graphene is the thinnest material known and may be the strongest.
Illustration by Chad Hagen
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Paisley
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Wow! This is really amazing how the scientist Andre Geim and a few of his students figured out how to make a smaller, honeycomb shaped material that is really strong. It was so interesting when one of his students, Da Jiang, to polish a crystal of carbon, but it was tiny at the end, and how they found how sheets of graphite were taken off of it with a microscope. Also, when he worked with Novoselov on graphene, they both discovered how it has a lot more of an electrical charge than copper has. Finally, when Geim and Novoselov wrote a book about their discovery of the new form of carbon, Graphene, it was nice to find out that they were able to publish the book. I think this important discovery should be shared in bigger news stories so that everyone will know about Graphene and its amazing qualities.
Oh my! I can't believe that a scientist used elctromagnets to levitate a frog. It is so cool that the graphene has one inch of graphite. It is very amazing that Jiang climbed a mountain just to get a speck of carbon. This was a very interesting article and I would love to learn more about graphene.
2 comments:
Wow! This is really amazing how the scientist Andre Geim and a few of his students figured out how to make a smaller, honeycomb shaped material that is really strong. It was so interesting when one of his students, Da Jiang, to polish a crystal of carbon, but it was tiny at the end, and how they found how sheets of graphite were taken off of it with a microscope. Also, when he worked with Novoselov on graphene, they both discovered how it has a lot more of an electrical charge than copper has. Finally, when Geim and Novoselov wrote a book about their discovery of the new form of carbon, Graphene, it was nice to find out that they were able to publish the book. I think this important discovery should be shared in bigger news stories so that everyone will know about Graphene and its amazing qualities.
Oh my! I can't believe that a scientist used elctromagnets to levitate a frog. It is so cool that the graphene has one inch of graphite. It is very amazing that Jiang climbed a mountain just to get a speck of carbon. This was a very interesting article and I would love to learn more about graphene.
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