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IYPT Elements

IYPT 2019 Elements 006: Carbon: diamonds, pencils and life

Here’s element number six, carbon, in the series of element graphics I’m producing with the Royal Society of Chemistry for the International Year of the Periodic Table.

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Materials Chemistry

Graphene: The Carbon-Based ‘Wonder Material’

You may not have been aware, but this week is Graphene Week 2015, which marks a yearly week-long conference at the University of Manchester based around the emerging science and technological applications of graphene. This seemed as good a time as any to take a look at graphene: what it is, why some scientists are excited […]