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Graphene—How a Laboratory Curiosity Suddenly Became Extremely Interesting
Author(s) -
Boehm HannsPeter
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
angewandte chemie international edition
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 5.831
H-Index - 550
eISSN - 1521-3773
pISSN - 1433-7851
DOI - 10.1002/anie.201004096
Subject(s) - graphene , curiosity , graphite , electron microscope , nanotechnology , oxide , materials science , condensed matter physics , physics , optics , psychology , composite material , metallurgy , social psychology
Thanks to its unusual electronic properties graphene has received considerable attention in recent years. It is less known, however, that research in this area goes much further back: At the start of the 1960s H.‐P. Boehm et al. reduced graphite oxide with formation of thin films, which today, on account of their content of foreign atoms, would be called “chemically modified graphenes” (figure: electron microscopy image from that time).