Decoding graphene's quantum soup
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- from Shaastra :: vol 04 issue 09 :: Oct 2025
Ultraclean graphene can flow like a liquid and upend a fundamental law of electrical and thermal conductivity.
In its purest form, graphene is sheer magic. Graduate student Aniket Majumdar knows that well. About three years ago, he stumbled upon what scientists hadn't seen till then – even though graphene had been a subject of intense study since its discovery in 2004. Under the supervision of his guide, Arindam Ghosh, Professor of Physics at the Bengaluru-based Indian Institute of Science (IISc), he discovered, while working on an experiment, that when graphene was devoid of impurities and atomic defects, electrons in a single layer of the material shed their individual characteristics and flowed like a liquid with extremely low viscosity.
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