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Definition of graphene
: an extremely electrically conductive form of elemental carbon that is composed of a single flat sheet of carbon atoms arranged in a repeating hexagonal lattice
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The new device, which is made up of graphene and human proteins, would be smaller than the width of a human hair.
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Under an atomic microscope, graphene looks like a flat lattice of hexagons in a honeycomb arrangement.
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The transistors were printed using graphene nanosheets as electrodes, with tungsten diselenide and boron nitride (two other nanomaterials) as the other parts of the transistor.
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Swirls of powdered graphene suspended in alcohol took the top prize in the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council's 2017 science photography competition.
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For the battery, the Stanford team put the spiky nickel particles in a thin film of elastic polyethylene and coated them with graphene, an atom-thick layer of carbon.
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The researchers have found a way to introduce one-dimensional defects that are stable and in the center of a graphene sheet.
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First Known Use of graphene
1985
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