Schematic of a lithium-ion battery. The graphite layers in the anode help store charge by intercalating lithium ions between individual graphene layers. Credit: OpenStax, CC By 4.0 While all these ...

Despite being made entirely of layers of carbon atoms arranged in a honeycomb pattern, natural graphite is not as simple as one may think. The manner in which these atomic layers stack on top of one ...

In a groundbreaking achievement, researchers from Peking University's School of Materials Science and Engineering, led by Professor Jin-Hu Dou, have synthesized a novel non-van-der-Waals ...

three years after it was first isolated by mechanical exfoliation of graphite 1, there is no doubt that graphene, a single layer of carbon atoms densely packed into a benzene-ring structure ...

which is then folded over and peeled apart repeatedly to cleave the graphite into thinner layers. The tape with the thinned-down graphite is pressed onto a substrate, such as silicon dioxide, and ...