NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC: Are we already living in the future?

  • Andre Geim
  • Konstantin Novoselov

    Press/Media: Research

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    The strongest lightweight

    Picture a sumo wrestler on a tissue paper trampoline. What you see in your mind’s eye is a fair metaphor for our first record-breaking discovery.

    In the quest to develop the lightest and strongest material ever known to man a team of researchers from the University of Manchester in England isolated a material known as graphene, for the first time in 2004. The work that won Professor Andre Geim and Professor Kostya Novoselov the Nobel Prize in physics produced a material that is one million times thinner than the diameter of a human hair but 200 times stronger than steel, making it the strongest material in the world.

    Period24 Jul 2019

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    • TitleAre we already living in the future?
      Media name/outletNational Geographic
      Media typeWeb
      Country/TerritoryUnited States
      Date24/07/19
      Description
      The strongest lightweight

      Picture a sumo wrestler on a tissue paper trampoline. What you see in your mind’s eye is a fair metaphor for our first record-breaking discovery.

      In the quest to develop the lightest and strongest material ever known to man a team of researchers from the University of Manchester in England isolated a material known as graphene, for the first time in 2004. The work that won Professor Andre Geim and Professor Kostya Novoselov the Nobel Prize in physics produced a material that is one million times thinner than the diameter of a human hair but 200 times stronger than steel, making it the strongest material in the world.
      URLhttps://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/2019/07/partner-content-are-we-already-living-in-the-future/
      PersonsAndre Geim, Konstantin Novoselov
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    Research Beacons, Institutes and Platforms

    • Advanced materials

    Keywords

    • graphene