Source: Times Online
Thanks to cozumel for the submit.
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Scientists have created the thinnest material in the world and predict that it will revolutionise computing and medical research.
A layer of carbon has been manufactured in a film only one atom thick that defies the laws of physics. Placed in layers on top of each other it would take 200,000 membranes to reach high enough to match the thickness of a human hair.
The substance, graphene, was created two years ago but could be made only when stuck to another material. Researchers have now managed to manufacture it as a film suspended between the nanoscale bars of scaffolding made from gold.
Mar 2, 2007, 07:26 AM
