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.

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