20 Years Ago, Two Physicists Made A Groundbreaking Discovery That Changed Technology Forever Has graphene been a resounding success or a damp squib? As is so often the case, the reality is somewhere in between. Inverse · Sep 29, 2024
Graphene at 20: still no sign of the promised space elevator, but here’s how this wonder material is quietly changing the world Twenty years ago this October, two physicists at the University of Manchester, Andre Geim and Konstantin Novoselov, published a groundbreaking paper on the “electric field effect in atomically thin carbon films”. Their work described the extraordinary electronic properties of graphene, a crystalline form of carbon equivalent to a single layer… The Conversation · Sep 23, 2024
Wafer-thin, stretchy and strong as steel: could ‘miracle’ material graphene finally transform our world? The material, discovered in 2004, was meant to be revolutionary. But only now is the technology coming of age The Guardian - UK · Apr 13, 2024