A team of scientists has replicated one of Thomas Edison's early experiments from his quest to make the lightbulb, but with the aim of making graphene, rather than light. They succeeded, and they ...

Early carbon light bulbs may have produced graphene, since applying voltage to carbon filaments mirrors what is now called flash Joule heating. Graphene is a transparent, remarkably strong substance, ...

Graphene is the thinnest material yet known, composed of a single layer of carbon atoms arranged in a hexagonal lattice. That structure gives it many unusual properties that hold great promise for ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: A graduate student discovered a new way to generate a highly sought-after variety of carbon, graphene, by studying a century-old Thomas Edison patent ...

Stephen has degrees in science (Physics major) and arts (English Literature and the History and Philosophy of Science), as well as a Graduate Diploma in Science Communication. Stephen has degrees in ...

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, it ...