The Graphene Revolution: The weird science of the ultra-thin
By Brian Clegg
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In 2003, Russian physicists Andre Geim and Konstantin Novoselov found a way to produce graphene – the thinnest substance in the world – by using sticky tape to separate an atom-thick layer from a block of graphite.
Their efforts would win the 2010 Nobel Prize for Physics, and now the applications of graphene and other ‘two-dimensional’ substances form a worldwide industry.
Graphene is far stronger than steel, a far better conductor than any metal, and able to act as a molecular sieve to purify water. Electronic components made from graphene are a fraction of the size of silicon microchips and can be both flexible and transparent, making it possible to build electronics into clothing, produce solar cells to fit any surface, or even create invisible temporary tattoos that monitor your health.
Ultra-thin materials give us the next big step forward since the transistor revolutionised electronics. Get ready for the graphene revolution.
Brian Clegg
BRIAN CLEGG is the author of Ten Billion Tomorrows, Final Frontier, Extra Sensory, Gravity, How to Build a Time Machine, Armageddon Science, Before the Big Bang, Upgrade Me, and The God Effect among others. He holds a physics degree from Cambridge and has written regular columns, features, and reviews for numerous magazines. He lives in Wiltshire, England, with his wife and two children.
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5This is a nice little book about the two dimensional form of carbon; graphene. A bit about carbon chemistry and the discovery of graphene and quite a lot about the properties and applications of graphene. In 2016 more than 7,000 patents were taken out for applications involving graphene...which is pretty remarkable considering that it was only really discovered (or produced) in 2003. Two Russian scientists working at Manchester University took out the Noble prize for the discovery in 2010 and it seems to have had a boom impact on Manchester Uni with the development of a graphene institute there.Graphene are being developed for applications such as filtration, fast charging capacitors, transistors, flexible screens for electronics, pressure sensors, wearable signs, diagnostic "tattoos", solar cells and many other applications. All because of the remarkable properties of the single layer of atoms in Graphene. It's also spawned other thin film chemistry with compounds like boron nitride and flurographene.The book is easy to read and very short. I quite enjoyed reading it. Four and a half stars from me.