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SUMMARY:Graphene and the Magic of  Physics in Two Dimensions
DESCRIPTION:Featuring Eva Andrei\, Rutgers University\nHosted by: David Cam
	pbell\nPoster: http://physics.bu.edu/posters/2014_Spring/0422_Andrei.pdf\n\
	nPart of the Physics Department Colloquia Series.\n\nAbstract:\nSince its f
	irst scotch-tape extraction from graphite in 2004\, Graphene – a one atom
	-thick crystal of carbon - has metamorphosed from the poor relative of diam
	ond into a "wonder material". By now it has amassed an impressive string of
	 superlatives –lightest\, thinnest\, strongest material\, best electrical
	 and thermal conductor - as well as the 2010 Nobel Prize for its discoverer
	s. Due to its remarkable properties graphene is rapidly moving from researc
	h laboratories into industrial\, medical and electronics applications. For 
	physicists much of the continuing excitement about Graphene stems from its 
	exotic charge carriers - Dirac fermions - which resemble two dimensional ma
	ssless neutrinos.  I will review the story and physics of graphene with emp
	hasis on its unusual electronic properties and will describe the experiment
	s and techniques which provided access to the two-dimensional world of Dira
	c fermions\, their interactions with each other and with the environment.
LOCATION:SCI 109\, 590 Commonwealth Avenue\, 02215
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