Shoestring physics

• Autores: Richard Webb
• Localización: New scientist, ISSN 0262-4079, Nº. 2948-2949, 2013, págs. 74-75
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • In 1996, Andre Geim was a junior professor at the University of Nijmegen in the Netherlands. His day job was teasing out the magnetic properties of superconductors, but he itched to investigate whether he could make water magnetic. It could all have gone disastrously wrong, but the dancing balls of levitating water that Geim saw in the electromagnet's core provided all the answer he needed. Here, Webb discusses how Geim's another Friday-night experiment in 1992--this time at the University of Manchester in UK--led to his most celebrated discovery: graphene.