Chemicals to Conduct and Generate Electricity

摘要

Papers about graphene occupy seven positions in the current Hot Ten. The only new one among them is paper #10, by Yongchao Si and Edward Samulski of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. It describes the synthesis of water-soluble single sheets of graphene. To a chemist this almost seems a contradiction in terms, but by careful manipulation and with simple chemistry they have managed to achieve this remarkable feat.