graphene
Like diamond, graphene is pure carbon. It forms a six-sided mesh of atoms that, through an electron microscope, looks like a honeycomb or piece of chicken wire. Despite its strength, it's as flexible as plastic wrap and can be bent, This scanning electron microscope image shows graphene nanoribbons that are 22 nanometers wide between the middle Move over, silicon: graphene is ready for its closeup. Discovered just a few years ago, graphene is a sheet of graphite Nanotechnology researchers have demonstrated anisotropic etching in single-layer graphene which produces connected graphene nanostructures with crystallographically oriented edges. This opens many future avenues to study graphene