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SUMMARY:Graphene: Exploring Carbon Flatland
DESCRIPTION:Featuring Andre Geim\, University of Manchester\nHosted by: Ant
	onio Castro Neto\n\nPart of the Biophysics/Condensed Matter Seminar Series.
	\n\nAbstract: When one writes with a pencil\, thin flakes of graphite are l
	eft on the surface making a dark trace. Some of these flakes turn out to be
	 only one atom thick and can be viewed as individual atomic planes pulled o
	ut from bulk graphite. These planes look like a chicken wire made from carb
	on atoms. Despite being literally right before our eyes for centuries\, thi
	s thinnest possible material in our universe called graphene was presumed n
	ot to exist until it was discovered by our group in 2004. Now graphene is a
	 bright and still rapidly rising star on the horizon of materials science a
	nd condensed matter physics\, revealing a cornucopia of new physics and pot
	ential applications. I will overview our experimental work on graphene conc
	entrating on its exotic electronic properties that are governed by Dirac-li
	ke equations rather than the standard Schrödinger equation and speculate a
	bout future applications.
LOCATION:PRB 595\, 3 Cummington Mall\, 02215
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