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[harrysol] 11/8/2019 21:40

Another day closer to BIGT as well as all of the other collaborations coming to fruition.

[alfie4048] 11/8/2019 20:58

No he didn't...and it's not a compound either...ffs

[burnt norton] 11/8/2019 19:34

I lost my temper with a friend
I mocked him
Mocked him and treated him
With rudeness
And though I tried to make amends
Still I miss him and walk a dark corridor

[festario] 11/8/2019 19:21

PShevlin, you're up against the likes of Dean Haigh I'm afraid, under one of his many free and un moderated usernames.You're wasting your time.

[alchemy] 11/8/2019 18:12

Be great if Dominic Raab's grandiosity affected our agreement .

[mryl] 11/8/2019 17:54

Yes they "simply" disproved the theory that it is unstable in single layer form.. Ok not a big deal then :) He may not have theorised the existence of graphene but he did demonstrate and prove its physical existence. So in a way he did discover graphene as a real-world stable compound; and in doing so started the whole worldwide graphene rush.

(I get your point btw but I didn't like the use of "simply" in your sentence, although it was a relatively "simple" experiment that led to the "discovery", very similar in a way to the discovery of quasicrystals in the 1980's that was later awarded the 2011 Nobel Prize in Chemistry actually).

To sum up, I would argue that yes, Geim et al. did discover graphene.

[pshevlin] 11/8/2019 17:50

Even the mentally ill are getting in on the act now.

[dry salvages] 11/8/2019 17:41

This Shelf bloke is a bit of a mentalist ..

[pshevlin] 11/8/2019 17:33

Sorry? I think you are completely wrong once again there. Perhaps you should also take a look at Mike Brenners views on the subject over on his twitter feed?

[jointer13] 11/8/2019 17:31

Never mind....life ls life...that’s how it goes

[jointer13] 11/8/2019 17:29

Noted for it by his own admission

[pshevlin] 11/8/2019 17:22

For which they received the Nobel prize alfie and by the way LO I didn't instigate the political discourse on here I merely responded to someone else who did and will continue to do so whatever you would like.Too many lies have gone unchallenged which is why we are where we are now.

[alfie4048] 11/8/2019 16:37

Just for the record, Geim didn't discover graphene.It's theoretical existence had been known about for over 100 years. It was widely beleived that it wouldn't be stable in single layer form. Geim and co simply disproved that theory by managing to isolate it.

[landereo] 11/8/2019 14:32

So back to graphene. Old news but woundn't it be amazing if for some bizarre reason they added our graphene hxxp://www.globalconstructionreview.com/companies/aecom-forms-alliance-ch7inese-3d-prin7ter-win7sun/

To me this highlights the potential scale of the graphene revoluton in one application.

[dry salvages] 11/8/2019 14:22

'I've been right about everything else up to now'

[pshevlin] 11/8/2019 14:14

Sorry teepee....even the discoverer of Graphene gets to talk politics on here. Then again he's not British and realises that politics invests all our lives including trying to make money investing in VRS. Neill doesn't talk about it because he is caught in a difficult position and dare not annoy anyone.