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Graphene isn’t the only Lego in the materials-science toy box

  • Written by Peter Byrley, Ph.D. Candidate in Chemical Engineering, University of California, Riverside
imageMaterials science has lots of options for building.dolske/flickr, CC BY-SA

You may have heard of graphene, a sheet of pure carbon, one atom thick, that’s all the rage in materials-science circles, and getting plenty of media hype as well. Reports have trumpeted graphene as an ultra-thin, super-strong, super-conductive, super-flexible...

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