Research of award-winning graffiti in Europe

2008/10/01 Elhuyar Zientzia Iturria: Elhuyar aldizkaria

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The Russians Andre Geim and Kostya Novoselov, the first physicists who investigated graphene, will receive the Europhysics prize, awarded annually by the European Physical Society. The research of graphene is a very new field in physics, since Geim and Novoselov managed to isolate the film for the first time in 2004. It is a singular material because it is a graphite sheet of a single atom of thickness and for its very special electronic characteristics. Electrons act in graphene as relativistic particles, which gives them very special properties from the electronic and optical point of view.