History of Graphene
Before graphene, there was graphite, and most of us know that as the “stuff pencils are made out of”. Graphite is a 3-dimensional compound and for the longest time, scientists have always theorized that graphene could be isolated from graphite in a 2-dimensional form. In 2004, two scientists, Andrew Giem and Konstantin Novoselov at the University of Manchester, created the first sample of graphene. The two were polishing a sample of graphite with tape and noticed extremely thin flakes stuck to the tape. This inspired them to create the thinnest sample possible and as a result, our friend graphene was born. This discovery took the scientific world by storm and in 2010, the two scientists won the Nobel Prize.
