Useful Graphene Sheets Need Not Be Single Crystals (1 of 2) (IMAGE)

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Useful Graphene Sheets Need Not Be Single Crystals (1 of 2)

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This image shows graphene islands grown on copper (main panel) and electrical device consisting of a grain boundary in graphene (inset). This image relates to a paper that appeared in the June 1, 2012, issue of Science, published by AAAS. The paper, by A.W. Tsen at Cornell University in Ithaca, N.Y., and colleagues was titled, "Tailoring Electrical Transport Across Grain Boundaries in Polycrystalline Graphene."

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Image courtesy of Adam Tsen

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