Graphene Gives Up More Of Its Secrets

[Moontanman]

Graphene Gives Up More of Its Secrets

 

Undoped graphene isn’t a metal, semiconductor, or insulator but a semimetal, whose unusual properties include electron-electron interactions between particles widely separated on graphene’s honeycomb lattice - here suggested by an artist’s impression of Feynman diagrams of such interactions. Long-range interactions, unlike those that occur only over very short distances in ordinary metals, alter the fundamental character of charge carriers in graphene. (Credit: Image by Caitlin Youngquist, Berkeley Lab Public Affairs)

 

ScienceDaily (July 14, 2011) — Graphene, a sheet of carbon only a single atom thick, was an object of theoretical speculation long before it was actually made. Theory predicts extraordinary properties for graphene, but testing the predictions against experimental results is often challenging.

 

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[Michaelangelica]

Seriously weird

 

along with

http://www.scienceda...11009140214.htm

and

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/06/110627095406.htm