After receiving the Nobel Robert Edwards the development of in vitro fertilization, today was the turn to physics. This year the Royal Academy of Sciences Sweden has named Andre Geim and Novoselov Konstantin for his pioneering work in development graphene, a two-dimensional material useful for development of electronic devices and more flexible efficient, such as computers and touch screens and solar panels.
Geim, 51, and Novoselov, 36, will receive the award from the Swedish Academy on Dec. 10 for his experiments with this new material that enables breakthroughs in quantum physics.
The two are Russian by birth and currently studying at the University of Manchester (United Kingdom). Geim, born in Sochi, Russia, Dutch citizen in 1958 and obtained his doctorate in physics in 1987 at the Russian Academy of Sciences, Chernogolovka.
Graphene is a two-dimensional material that will enable more efficient devices. Nizhny Tagil, Russia, has dual nationality (British and Russian). He practiced medicine at the University of Nijmegen (Netherlands) and is a professor at the University of Manchester, and Geim. Experts believe graphene devices will be substantially faster than silicon, which is currently used in most electronic devices, which are able to manufacture devices and computers much more flexible and efficient.
Graphene is a flat sheet structure of an atom thick, composed of carbon atoms densely packed in a crystal lattice in the form of honeycomb. The winners were
graphene from graphite (used to make pencils). This new material is characterized by high electrical and thermal conductivity and combine a high elasticity and lightnesswith extreme hardness, which ranks as the world's strongest material. addition, it can react chemically with other elements and compounds, making the graphene material a great potential for development.
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