Confine electrons within microscopically thin layers of material and weird things happen. Experiments on semiconductors in the 1980s demonstrated that to physicists (SN: 10/17/98, p. 247).
ATOMIC FABRIC. A crumpled sheet of carbon covers a silicon surface. Some sections are only one atom thick. K. Novoselov/Univ. Manchester
Now, two independent research teams have found that electrons imprisoned within a carbon sheet one atom thick behave in yet other odd ways, unlike anything seen in other materials.
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