More than a century before graphene was isolated in a modern lab, Thomas Edison may have been unknowingly making the wonder material inside his early light bulbs. New experiments suggest that the ...

According to new research from Rice University, while Edison’s goal was simply to create a longer-lasting electric lamp, the ...

Inventor Thomas Edison is known for being ahead of his time, and a new study could add another notch to his overachieving ...

To reproduce what Thomas Edison did, with the tools and knowledge we have now, is very exciting,” said co-author James Tour, ...

Graphene has drawn attention as a scientific curiosity owing to its record conductivities, strength and thermal properties.

Graphene is an extremely thin, flexible and resistant material made of pure carbon. It forms layers that consist of virtually a single layer of carbon atoms. To make graphene as thick as a human hair, ...

What do Thomas Edison and 2010 Nobel Prize in physics winners Konstantin Novoselov and Andre Geim have in common? According ...

The past decade has seen explosive interest in graphene, a single-molecule-thick sheet of carbon atoms with amazing properties. It has been put forward as a potentially revolutionary material for ...