Blender whips up graphene
New recipe makes cheap, easy nanomaterials
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SUPER SHEET Simple blender blades can slough off graphene, single-atom-thick layers of carbon, from graphite. Graphene’s carbon atoms, depicted as bright blobs in this scanning transmission electron microscope image, form a chicken wire pattern.
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