Graphite Found to Exhibit Surprising Quantum Effects

by David Biello ScientificAmerican.com, 10 Nov 2005 Albert Einstein, Paul Dirac and other founding physicists may have used pencils to work out the details of relativity and quantum mechanics. Now their modern successors are employing pencil lead in a new way to prove those theories -- and potentially point the way toward a whole new form of electronics.

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