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Did Edison accidentally make graphene in 1879?
Researchers link Edison's carbonized bamboo filaments to graphene formed by flash Joule heating at 2000°C, suggesting early low-cost graphene production methods.
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Edison's 1879 bulb experiments may have unintentionally produced graphene
What do Thomas Edison and 2010 Nobel Prize in physics winners Konstantin Novoselov and Andre Geim have in common? According to a recent publication from the lab of Rice University's James Tour in ACS Nano, it could be graphene—an answer that might have confused Edison, who died almost 20 years before physicist P.R. Wallace proposed such a substance could exist and nearly 80 years before Novoselov and Geim were awarded a Nobel Prize for isolating…
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