Graphene, The Perfect Atomic Lattice

A thin flake of ordinary carbon, just one atom thick, lies behind this year’s Nobel Prize in Physics. Andre Geim and Konstantin Novoselov have shown that carbon in such a flat form has exceptional properties that originate from the remarkable world of quantum physics.        Graphene is a form of carbon. As a material it is completely new – not only the thinnest ever but also the strongest. As a