Graphene—How a Laboratory Curiosity Suddenly Became Extremely Interesting

2010/09/23 by H.P. Boehm · 1 citation
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paper · pdf · doi:10.1002/anie.201004096

openalex publication_date 2010/09/23 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/29

Abstract

Thanks to its unusual electronic properties graphene has received considerable attention in recent years. It is less known, however, that research in this area goes much further back: At the start of the 1960s H.-P. Boehm et al. reduced graphite oxide with formation of thin films, which today, on account of their content of foreign atoms, would be called “chemically modified graphenes” (figure: electron microscopy image from that time).

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• Ulrich Hofmann [wikipedia]

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