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Nature Nanotechnology 3, 254–255 (1 May 2008) | doi:10.1038/nnano.2008.115

Electronic materials: Making graphene for macroelectronics

John A. Rogers

Carbon is special. Not only is it the atomic building block for all known forms of life, it also provides exceptionally good charge transport characteristics when configured into single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWNTs) or graphene.