First Principles

EP49 - Graphene and the Impossible Physics of the One-Atom-Thick World


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Imagine a material two hundred times stronger than steel, more conductive than copper, yet so thin it is technically invisible. We deconstruct the accidental discovery of Graphene to understand how a simple roll of scotch tape and a pencil stump unlocked a new dimension of physics that shouldn't mathematically exist.
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