Graphite, tape dispenser and electronic device
- ID-nummer
- 2010.004.000
- Titel
- Graphite, tape dispenser and electronic device
- Objektkategori
- Vetenskapliga instrument, material & modeller
- Publik beskrivning
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Using ordinary tape and a piece of graphite, Andre Geim and Konstantin Novoselov conducted an experiment with surprising results.
Graphite is a form of carbon that is used in pencils, for example. Physicists had calculated that layers of graphite just one atom thick would have interesting properties, but it was considered impossible to produce in reality. Nevertheless, Geim and Novoselov attempted to separate thin flakes of carbon from a piece of graphite using ordinary tape. Some of these flakes were extremely thin. The new material – “graphene” – had been created.
This device is one of the first where graphene was used.
Andre Geim and Konstantin Novoselov donated the graphite, tape dispenser and electronic device to the Nobel Prize Museum in 2010. - Mått
- Width: 155 mm Height: 75 mm Depth: 85 mm
- Provenance
- 810 Nobel Museum Temporary