Andre Geim and Konstantin Novoselov of the University of Manchester in England used Scotch tape to rip off flakes of graphene from a chunk of graphite, the stuff of pencil "leads." That ...

Professors Geim, front, and Novoselov (Image: The University of Manchester) One night, they successfully removed some flakes from a lump of bulk graphite with the sticky tape.

This morning, surgeons at the University of Manchester temporarily placed a thin, Scotch-tape-like implant made of graphene on a patient’s cortex—the outermost layer of the brain.

Geim and Novoselov aren't in on all those applications, but their initial Scotch-tape experiments — along with the even more rigorous lab work that followed — are why they won a Nobel Prize today.

They used a simple but effective mechanical exfoliation method for extracting thin layers of graphite from a graphite crystal with Scotch tape and then transferred these layers to a silicon substrate.

The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in Stockholm, Sweden, announced recently the 2010 Nobel Prize in Physics is awarded to Professor Andre Geim and Dr. Konstantin Novoselov from the University of ...

Now imagine using a piece of tape to remove one card from the top of the deck. This is just what Geim and Novoselov did with their piece of graphite and Scotch tape.

The graphite lump, graphene transistor and tape dispenser that Andre Geim and Konstantin Novoselov donated to the Nobel Museum. Image used with permission by copyright holder ...

In 2004, Dr. Andre Geim and Dr. Konstantin Novosolev at the University of Manchester first isolated graphene with the so-called “Scotch-tape” method. This method involves applying an adhesive tape to ...