Graphene is the thinnest material yet known, composed of a single layer of carbon atoms arranged in a hexagonal lattice. That structure gives it many unusual properties that hold great promise for ...

Inventor Thomas Edison is known for being ahead of his time, and a new study could add another notch to his overachieving belt. Researchers at Rice University suggest Edison may have inadvertently ...

More than a century before graphene was isolated in a modern lab, Thomas Edison may have been unknowingly making the wonder ...

What do Thomas Edison and Nobel Prize in physics winners Konstantin Novoselov and Andre Geim have in common? According to a recent publication from the lab of Rice University’s James Tour, it could be ...

Inventor Thomas Edison demonstrated his electric incandescent lights in public. He illuminated about 100 bulbs in and around his laboratory in Menlo Park, New Jersey. Edison used a carbonized bamboo ...