What is graphene?

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1. What is graphene?

A new composite material built from carbon nanotubes

A sheet of carbon exactly one atom thick

A thin film made specifically from fullerenes

A software tool used to visualise nanoparticles

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Graphene is a single, one-atom-thick sheet of carbon atoms arranged in a hexagonal lattice — its discovery earned the 2010 Nobel Prize in Physics.