What is Graphene ?..

Graphene is a semi-metal with a small overlap between the valence and the conduction bands (zero bandgap material).

Image of Graphene 

• Graphene is a combination of "Graphite"  and the suffix-ene, named by Hanns-Peter Boehm and colleagues, who produced and observed single-layer carbon foils in 1962.
• It is an form of carbon consisting of a single layer of carbon atoms arranged in a hexagonal lattice. 
• It is the basic structural element of many other forms of carbon, such as graphite, diamond, charcoal, carbon nanotubes and fullerenes.
• It can be considered as an indefinitely large aromatic molecule, the ultimate case of the family of flat polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons.

Properties Of  Graphene:-

• It is the strongest material ever tasted.
• It efficiently conducts heat and electricity and is nearly transparent.
• Graphene shows a large and nonlinear diamagnetism, greater than that of graphite,
• And can be levitated by neodymium magnets.

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