I came across the video below from the blog Frogheart and considering the recent Nobel Prize for Physics and the near daily reports on graphene within the pages of Spectrum alone, I thought it worth posting here.
The video provides a demonstration in a very rough way for how one could manage to isolate a single layer of graphite to create graphene.
The presenter, Dr. Jonathan Hare, manages to bring up the issue of the speed at which electrons travel through graphene to discuss relativistic quantum mechanics and Dirac particles and still manages to make it accessible for a general audience.
Nice piece of work and will lead me to check out the video’s producers Vega Science Trust for more material.Â
Dexter Johnson is a contributing editor at IEEE Spectrum, with a focus on nanotechnology.
