Sugar and slice make graphene real nice: Table sugar, metallic sheets produce pristine graphene in one step
Thursday, November 11, 2010 - 12:20
in Earth & Climate
Rice researchers have learned to make pristine sheets of graphene, the one-atom-thick form of carbon, from plain table sugar and other carbon-based substances. They do so in a one-step process at temperatures low enough to make graphene easy to manufacture.