Balancing act.

• Autores: Steve Mirsky
• Localización: Scientific American, ISSN 0036-8733, Vol. 305, Nº. 5, 2011, págs. 96-96
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • The article discusses a statement by James Hone, a mechanical engineer at Columbia University, who said that an elephant balanced on a pencil would be required to break through a very thin sheet of graphene. The author examines the nature of graphene, a material made of carbon atoms in a honeycomb lattice, and asks questions about the orientation of the pencil, the material the pencil is made out of, and what type of elephant was being referred to.