Newswise — THE 2010 NOBEL PRIZE IN PHYSICS will be awarded to Andre Geim and Konstantin Novoselov of the University of Manchester, U.K. for their pioneering work with graphene, a single-atom-thick sheet of carbon. Discovered in 2004 by Geim and his colleagues, graphene is an extraordinary and versatile material. It has these properties:-- It is the best known conductor of electricity at room temperature.-- Electrons move very quickly through graphene, and lose little energy along the way.-- It is the strongest material known, and is expected to be used in composite materials.-- It is transparent and might be useful for electronic displays.-- It might be an able source of terahertz radiation, a difficult-to-make form of light.-- It will probably be possible to make integrated circuits to be made from a single sheet of graphene.
PICTURES AND IMAGES-- http://www.nist.gov/cnst/graphene_091410.cfm, NIST image-- http://www.aip.org/png/html/nanotube.htm, image of graphene-- http://www.aip.org/png/2008/304.htm, image of strength tests-- http://www.aps.org/meetings/march/vpr/2010/imagegallery/graphenedefects.cfm, graphene illustration from 2010 American Physical Society March meeting
RELATED PHYSICS NEWS UPDATE ITEMSStories we have covered in past issues of our news alert service Physics News Update (www.aip.org/pnu)-- http://www.aip.org/pnu/2008/split/854-2.html, Geim has new speed record-- http://www.aip.org/pnu/2006/split/769-2.html, Geim and his accomplishments since graphene discovery
WEBSITES-- Nobel Prize site: http://nobelprize.org/-- Geim’s site: http://www.condmat.physics.manchester.ac.uk/research/graphene/ with links to valuable articles in Physics World, Physics Today, and Scientific American -- APS News review of graphene history, http://www.aps.org/publications/apsnews/200910/physicshistory.cfm-- Scientific American article: www.condmat.physics.manchester.ac.uk/pdf/mesoscopic/news/graphene/SciAm_2008.pdf-- Geim article in Physics Today, http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.2774096-- News item in Physics Today, http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.2180163-- Past Nobel laureates in physics: http://www.slac.stanford.edu/library/nobel
STATEMENT by Dr. H. Frederick Dylla, Executive Director and CEO of the American Institute of Physics: “Graphene is a splendid material, and its rapid rise to fame shows how quickly science can respond to new discoveries. Within a year or so of Andre Geim’s and Konstantin Novoselov’s first work with graphene, it became the subject of dozens of sessions at large science meetings. Many scientists, seeing a rich research opportunity, stopped what they were doing and turned to graphene.”
LINKS TO AIP JOURNAL ARTICLES INVOLVING GRAPHENE OR GEIMhttp://link.aip.org/link/?APPLAB/97/053110/1http://link.aip.org/link/?APPLAB/93/222109/1http://link.aip.org/link/?APPLAB/91/233108/1http://link.aip.org/link/?APPLAB/91/063124/1http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.2774096http://link.aip.org/link/?APPLAB/88/013901/1http://link.aip.org/link/?APPLAB/86/212501/1http://link.aip.org/link/?JAPIAU/93/10053/1http://link.aip.org/link/?JAPIAU/87/6200/1http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.882469http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.882437http://link.aip.org/link/?APPLAB/71/2379/1http://link.aip.org/link/?APPLAB/64/2563/1http://link.aip.org/link/?APPLAB/61/3157/1
ADDITIONAL PICTURESPictures of Nobelists available from Wikipedia, http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Andre_Geim_2010-1.jpghttp://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Andre_Geim_2010-2.jpghttp://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Geim.jpg
As for Kostya Novoselov, this page at Manchester has a several hi-res images made freely available (including the one attached, which appears on a few websites):http://www.condmat.physics.manchester.ac.uk/people/academic/novoselov/picturesnovoselov/The credit should be "University of Manchester."
ABOUT AIPThe American Institute of Physics is a federation of 10 physical science societies representing more than 135,000 scientists, engineers, and educators and is one of the world's largest publishers of scientific information in the physical sciences. Offering partnership solutions for scientific societies and for similar organizations in science and engineering, AIP is a leader in the field of electronic publishing of scholarly journals. AIP publishes 12 journals (some of which are the most highly cited in their respective fields), two magazines, including its flagship publication Physics Today; and the AIP Conference Proceedings series. Its online publishing platform Scitation hosts nearly two million articles from more than 185 scholarly journals and other publications of 28 learned society publishers.
RSS
