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December 4th, 2013
How UK wonder substance graphene can't and won't benefit UK: Once a research-rich economy the UK has fallen behind in innovation with UK firms allegedly either incapable or unwilling to exploit inventions
Abstract:
To see what's really at stake in this week's autumn statement from George Osborne, do yourself a favour: duck out of the Westminster argy-bargy, hit the M1 and don't stop until you've reached Manchester. Then button-hole a physicist into showing you the wonder stuff discovered by two University colleagues just a few years ago.
It's called graphene and it's the thinnest material on earth - almost a million times slimmer than a strand of hair. I saw it lying on a wafer of silicon and it resembled nothing so much as breath on a windowpane.
Almost everything about graphene begs to be inscribed in legend. There's its discovery: a couple of Russian émigrés at Manchester engage in a "Friday night experiment" by peeling away at a pencil lead with sticky tape, until they isolate the one-atom-thick substance dreamt of by researchers for more than half a century.
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