Fill in the Blanks GrapheneOnline version Physics of New Material by Martin Smith 1 The of , a wonder that promises to transform the , is already the of scientific . As a piece of brilliant it stands alongside the accidental of by ? and it might prove just as valuable . Two - scientists at the University of Manchester , Andrei Geim and Kostya Novoselov , were playing about with flakes of graphite in an attempt to investigate its properties when they decided to see if they could make flakes with the help of tape . They the tape to off a layer of graphite from its block and then repeatedly off further layers from the original cleaved flake until they to to flakes that only a few atoms thick . They soon that by repeatedly sticking and peeling back the Scotch tape they could to the thinnest of all possible layers , one atom thick ? a material with unique and immensely interesting properties .
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