MOVE OVER SILICON: the hottest new material in electronics could be sitting inside the humble pencil. At the Condensed Matter & Materials Physics Conference, held by the Institute of Physics in Exeter in April, Andre Geim (University of Manchester) and his colleagues claimed that graphite, the silvery black, soft form of carbon known for thousands of years, could yield a new generation of microelectronic devices, as well as unveiling unprecedented effects in quantum physics.
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