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World’s thinnest material stretches, bends, twists

Graphene gets manipulated under the microscope

MATERIALS IMITATE ART  A series of cuts can produce unique shapes out of paper (top row) and graphene (bottom, shown in micrographs), which has a millionth the thickness of paper. Researchers created a stretchable sheet (left), a pyramid (center) and a spiral (right).

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By Andrew Grant

- More than 2 years ago

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DENVER– A technique inspired by Japanese paper arts allows scientists to manipulate single-atom-thick sheets of carbon as if they were pieces of paper, researchers announced March 5 at a meeting of the American Physical Society.