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This is Scientific American’s 60-Second Science, I’m Steve Mirsky. Got a minute?

The 2010 Nobel Prize in Physics goes to the University of Manchester’s Andre Geim and Konstantin Novoselov for their investigations1 of the two-dimensional material graphene. Ordinary so-called pencil lead is graphite, a three-dimensional form of carbon. Flat layers of carbon, one-atom think, are called graphene.  Both born in Russia, Geim, 52, and Novoselov, just 36, showed that graphene has unusual properties related to quantum effects.

Physicist2 Per Delsing explained at the announcement from the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences: “The electronic structure of graphene is very unusual. It’s a transparent3 conductor and as such it can be used as touch screens, solar cells, light panels. If you put graphene into other materials, such as epoxy or plastic, you can make very light and very strong materials, which is interesting for satellites and aircraft, but it’s also that you can make flexible electronics. And so these are examples of the applications, and the pioneers that really did this were these two gentlemen.”

Thanks for the minute, for Scientific American’s 60-Second. I’m Steve Mirsky.
 


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1 investigations 02de25420938593f7db7bd4052010b32     
（正式的）调查( investigation的名词复数 )； 侦查； 科学研究； 学术研究
参考例句：
  • His investigations were intensive and thorough but revealed nothing. 他进行了深入彻底的调查，但没有发现什么。
  • He often sent them out to make investigations. 他常常派他们出去作调查。
2 physicist oNqx4     
n.物理学家，研究物理学的人
参考例句：
  • He is a physicist of the first rank.他是一流的物理学家。
  • The successful physicist never puts on airs.这位卓有成就的物理学家从不摆架子。
3 transparent Smhwx     
adj.明显的，无疑的；透明的
参考例句：
  • The water is so transparent that we can see the fishes swimming.水清澈透明，可以看到鱼儿游来游去。
  • The window glass is transparent.窗玻璃是透明的。

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