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Graphene Pioneers Follow in Nobel Footsteps Wednesday, September 03, 2008 - Anuradha Menon Home >> Headlines >> Physics   
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Two physicists from The University of Manchester who discovered the world’s thinnest material have scooped a major award for their work. Professor Andre Geim FRS and Dr Kostya Noveselov of the Centre of Mesoscience and Nanotechnology have been awarded the prestigious Europhysics Prize for discovering graphene - and also their subsequent work to reveal its remarkable electronic properties. Graphene is a one-atom thick gauze of carbon atoms resembling chicken wire. (source: manchester.ac.uk)
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