BBC Radio 4 says: “Andre Geim values his Ig Nobel prize for levitating frogs as much as his Nobel for graphene.” UPDATE: The BBC posted a recording of the interview, with this introduction: Helen Grady profiles Professor Sir Andre Geim who is one of the most unusual scientists working in Britain – perhaps the world […]
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Graphene From Garbage (and Girl Scout cookies and bugs)
Biscuits, rubbish and bugs in Texas raise hopes that Britain will grow a lucrative new techology-based empire soon, rather than just eventually. This is all about getting usable amounts of graphene – the two-dimensional form of carbon. An American experiment, so goofy-sounding that it has drawn little attention, points towards a cheap way of obtaining […]
Interview with a frog-levitating graphene tinkerer
Sean O’Neill, in New Scientist, interviews Andre Geim, who has shared (with different collaborators) both an Ig Nobel Prize in physics (for his work on teh substance graphene) and a Nobel Prize in physics. Here’s the final portion of that interview: From tinkering on the fringes to Nobel glory … You have worked in many […]
Graphene from Girl Scout Cookies
Technology Review reports: One box of shortbread cookies can be made into $15 billion of nanomaterials. by KATHERINE BOURZAC To chemists, carbon is just carbon. But graphene, the ultrathin material whose strength, flexibility, and high conductivity is promising for electronics, is one of the more costly forms of the element. High quality graphene is commonly […]