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arXiv:0906.3799 (cond-mat)
[Submitted on 20 Jun 2009]

Title:Graphene: Status and Prospects

Authors:A. K. Geim
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Abstract: Graphene is a wonder material with many superlatives to its name. It is the thinnest material in the universe and the strongest ever measured. Its charge carriers exhibit giant intrinsic mobility, have the smallest effective mass (it is zero) and can travel micrometer-long distances without scattering at room temperature. Graphene can sustain current densities 6 orders higher than copper, shows record thermal conductivity and stiffness, is impermeable to gases and reconciles such conflicting qualities as brittleness and ductility. Electron transport in graphene is described by a Dirac-like equation, which allows the investigation of relativistic quantum phenomena in a bench-top experiment. What are other surprises that graphene keeps in store for us? This review analyses recent trends in graphene research and applications, and attempts to identify future directions in which the field is likely to develop.
Comments: pre-edited version of the review published in Science Please note that only 40 references are allowed by the magazine. Sorry
Subjects: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall); Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
Cite as: arXiv:0906.3799 [cond-mat.mes-hall]
  (or arXiv:0906.3799v1 [cond-mat.mes-hall] for this version)
  https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.0906.3799
Journal reference: Science 324, 1530-1534 (2009)
Related DOI: https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1158877

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From: Andre Geim K [view email]
[v1] Sat, 20 Jun 2009 11:28:48 UTC (314 KB)
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