Diamonds are forever, or so the saying goes. But the most stable form of carbon is actually graphite. Until recently, graphite was regarded as rather a dull substance-fit for making pencil leads and lubricants, certainly, but not the stuff of Nobel prizes. However, a session at the American Physical Society meeting held this week in Baltimore, on a newly discovered form of graphite called graphene, showed how wrong that prejudice was.
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