City of graphene hosts forum full of questions

Manchester, England, is not the birthplace of graphene — the atom-thin, honeycomb-like layer of carbon known for its wondrous properties and seemingly limitless applications. But the city is the material’s main booster and, according to the University of Manchester, the official Home of Graphene. That’s because it was there that Andre Geim and Kostya Novoselov figured out that you could isolate the elusive material from graphite (the “lead” in pencils) with repeated dabs of sticky tape.