Posts Tagged ‘nanocrystals’

Science & Technology - Wednesday, November 18, 2009 12:55 - 2 Comments

Marveling over ‘molecular chicken wire’


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This illustration shows the tip of a scanning tunneling microscope approaching an undulating sheet of perfect graphene. The exotic substance is 10 times stronger than steel and conducts electricity better than any known material at room temperature. Both physicists and nanoscientists are studying graphene and exploring its potential applications. (Credit: Calvin Davidson, British Carbon Group)

VANDERBILT—The hottest, thinnest, toughest new material in physics and nanotechnology is graphene: a remarkably flat molecule made of carbon atoms arranged in hexagonal rings much like molecular chicken wire. Continue…


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