Graphene featured in the Royal Society Summer Science Exhibition
Date: 2nd August 2011
Colleagues from the Nano Engineering and Storage Technology Group attended this year's Royal Society 'Science Live' exhibition to talk about their contribution to the discovery of Graphene, awarded with Nobel prize in 2010.
The activities the group had designed to interactively showcase their work, including a new Android application, proved especially popular.
The theme of the exhibition was Graphene: unexpected science in a pencil line.
Graphene is a single atom thick, two dimensional film of Carbon atoms arranged in a “chicken wire” like structure, which was previously thought to be unstable in its free form. The diccovery of Graphene was originally made by using sticky tape to peel it from graphite (as found in a pencil lead). It is extremely transparent and being such a good electrical conductor makes it an ideal transparent electrode in LCD displays and solar cells.
Related Links:
- The Royal Society Summer Science Exhibition.
- The Royal Society Summer Science Exhibition Grephene page.
- Details of the iOS/Android games made for ths RSS exhibition.
- Graphene exhibit at the Summer Science Exhibition 2011 page.